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New lights were hoisted into place this past Wednesday at the Klondike High School football fi eld, just in time for the Cougar’s homecoming football game and related activities on Friday night. The new lighting is part of improvements being undertaken at the school with bond funds approved by voters last November.

The tax rate and COVID-19 days for staff members are on the agenda for O’Donnell school board members to consider at their 7 p.m. Tuesday regular meeting in the board room at 400 Small Street in O’Donnell.

Jokes and stories attributed to US Presidents – true or not – have to make some of them blush with embarrassment. File drawers of the late President Harry S. Truman must have bulged nigh unto disintegration. He was arguably the most plain-spoken president of the 20th century. (Admittedly, in the 21st century, he probably would have been a distant second to President Donald Trump.)

My husband, Peter, and I are at my parents’ cabin in the woods. The weather was perfect for a bike ride so we took a long one. We had not all been riding together in almost two years and I am not an experienced rider. So, in order to prevent my butt from getting sore, I have a big, soft seat on my bicycle. My mother, an avid cyclist, does not approve.