News Progress

•June 22, 2016• by Mike Brothers NP Managing Editor I was in the fifth grade at the time and had yet to uncover my full capacity for stupid human tricks. So when Steve Nelson and I were assigned an outside science project by Mr. Harris in the fifth grade, it became a challenge to create some sort of explosion. That particular instinct has led me to several close calls over time. I had just seen this old movie on television about Pompeii and how it and a bunch of other Roman cities were destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius … Read More

•June 22, 2016• By Jerry Ginther NP Columnist When I was in grade school, I was a big fan of Walter Farley, author of The Black Stallion series. I read them all. Anytime a book report was required, one of Mr. Farley’s books was the adventure of choice so I wasn’t at all surprised when I learned recently that he was actually writing to my age group. However, when I was a freshman in high school, my English teacher suggested, after I submitted two of those reports back to back, that my coverage on the topic was sufficient for that … Read More