Category: Feature

  • Riverview Corridor Progress: Bad to Worse

    Riverview Corridor Progress: Bad to Worse

    by Greg StruveIn the recent Policy Advisory Committee meeting and subsequent public presentations, the Riverview Corridor Plan has gone from bad to worse. In determining that the existing tunnel on Highway…

  • Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

    Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

    Will the Circle Be Unbroken is the song and refrain that played in my mind on a continuous loop as my siblings, my wife and I stood together at the cemetery…

  • Health Lessons from a Matriarch

    Health Lessons from a Matriarch

    By Jonathan Dickman, MD  At the end of October, my family lost our matriarch as my grandmother died from complications following a car accident. My grandmother would have been the first to…

  • Claddagh coffee reaches 10-year milestone

    Claddagh coffee reaches 10-year milestone

    by Casey EkMary Hogan-Bard was known among her friends to make a mean cup of coffee—pour overs were her specialty. They would often tease her, asking when she might open a…

  • Keystone responds to pandemic with creativity

    Keystone responds to pandemic with creativity

    by Jerry RothsteinKeystone Community Services is one of the organizations with which our community is blessed — devoted to looking for areas of challenge and creating programs to help meet the…

  • Recollections: A Case of Brotherly Love: November 1997

    Recollections: A Case of Brotherly Love: November 1997

    By Tim Rumsey, MDFrank Heller’s older brother Raymond was hospitalized at United with metastatic prostate cancer. He did not look good. Frank stayed with him in his hospital room for 12…

  • Mary Cutrufello to Lead Federation

    Mary Cutrufello to Lead Federation

    By Jerry RothsteinWhen Mary Cutrufello plays a music gig at The White Squirrel [you can see her there with Trevor McSpadden on Nov. 30, 6-8 p.m. at a free event and…

  • Mass Shooting Underscores Public Safety Concerns on West 7th

    Mass Shooting Underscores Public Safety Concerns on West 7th

    By Casey EkThe mass shooting at West Seventh Truck Park that took the life of 27-year-old Marquisha Wiley and injured 15 others in the early hours of Sunday, October 10, shocked…

  • Celebrating 50 years: 1971-2021  Another look back: News from the 2000s Part 1

    Celebrating 50 years: 1971-2021 Another look back: News from the 2000s Part 1

    Editor’s Note: The Community Reporter is looking back on its first 50 years, finding some connections to the past and present, with thoughts towards the future. Here’s a sampling of what…