the road to excellence

Successful summer program under way

By ANDREW PETERS

As you read today’s issue of the Big Bend Sentinel, the MISD Summer Shake-up program is half over. It is hard to believe. Anna Kreger and Jaylia Foster, MISD teachers, have coordinated a number of educational programs for our community’s children. We averaged over 60 students the first two …

¡ask a mexican!

Learn the Spanish language so you’ll know what they’re saying about you

By GUSTAVO ARELLANO

Dear Mexican: In Philadelphia, where I live, there are three Spanish-language stations on regular broadcast television. None of them offer English subtitles. I bet plenty of people of all heritages would like to check out Spanish language television, or the news from …

steve’s column

Navigating toward Father’s Day

By STEVE LANG

“Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.” – Red Buttons

Even with an instruction manual, I estimated my chances of success as a father as 50/50 at best.

With or without my assistance, my son and daughter seem to be amounting to something.

Apparently both have …

library talk

Summer reading program begins

By RENEE MICK

Today we will begin our Summer Storytime schedule. We will offer a fun Storytime for toddlers as well as for ages 5-12 at the library. Both events begin at 11am today with Nicki Ittner and Ashley Rowe conducting, today only.

After today, Kelly Webb and Marc DeClerq will conduct.

Storytime will be …

the idle american

Who are you busier than?

By Dr. Don Newbury

A guess–not even an educated one–is that the average person these days believes himself or herself far too busy for engagement in conversational drivel about, uh, who we are “busier than.”

Where we live, quasi-retired, our busiest hours precede twice-a-month housecleaner visits.

My wife simply can’t abide the thought of …

the anti-fan

Circle the wagons on A-Rod? Not Teixeira

By JIM GORDON

This is typical:

“I don’t know what’s going to happen. As a team, all we have to do is what we need to do. And right now that is to support [Alex Rodriguez].”

So is this:

“I would think we’d be supportive. It’s up to guys in here to support …

dick decent – droned

rambling boy

A salad bowl of language in the United States

By LONN TAYLOR

Is this a great country or what?

A recent story in the New York Times by Joseph Berger reported a controversy over the proper spelling of the word that the winner of the National Spelling Bee spelled to win the bee. The word is knaidel, a …

golliver – tin can spying

correspondence

This Playboy “outside sculpture,” it’s just some kind of joke, right?

Right?

Peter Chase

Alpine

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As the Ward 1 City Councilman and Mayor of Alpine, Dr. Avinash Rangra, have always supported the best interests of our community, the best interests of Alpine are not always the interests of other parties, and Dr. Rangra has found himself the …