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You Bet Your Life

“You Bet Your Life” was a TV series from 1950 through 1960 starring the inevitable Groucho Marx where he always asked the operative question, “What is the Secret Word “?
When it comes to your life as an average citizen in Kingman what would be the “secret word” for our town and its people?

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Be careful walking after dark. The police may be scary.

Dear Editor,
Freedom to move about the country is a wonderful privilege.
Let us be appreciative of our freedom this fourth of July week.
Recently, I was taking a late night walk in Owenton, Kentucky. Owenton is a little town of maybe six hundred people in rural north central Kentucky. I had just finished watching the sad Biden-Trump debate and decided that a walk and some ice cream sounded good.

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letter to the editor

Rebuttal to “Defending my father”

Dear Editor,
Ms. J.M., I believe your father was a good, strong, and very brave man as you describe him. By the way, so was mine. My father so much wanted to join the military when WWII began but was too young at the beginning. My grandmother needed him to help support their family as my grandfather was ill. He left school to go to work to help ends meet.

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