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5 days ago | 
desmoinesregister.com | Kurt Ullrich
Kurt Ullrich lives in rural Jackson County. His book "The Iowa State Fair" is available from the University of Iowa Press. April, somewhere distant, spring fading while summer is still just out of reach. Right out of a Paul Simon lyric, “April, come she will, when streams are ripe and swelled with rain.” Those of you my age will remember, and hearing the song in your head will likely make you a little sad.
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1 week ago | 
thegazette.com | Kurt Ullrich
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. April, somewhere distant, spring fading while summer still is just out of reach. Right out of a Paul Simon lyric, “April, come she will, when streams are ripe and swelled with rain.” Those of you my age will remember, and hearing the song in your head will likely make you a little sad.
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3 weeks ago | 
thegazette.com | Kurt Ullrich
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The first time it became apparent to me that thoughtful women were fully realizing that they were not being treated as well as men came in 1962.
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3 weeks ago | 
telegraphherald.com | Kurt Ullrich
Skip to main content You have permission to edit this image. LOCAL CANCELLATIONS & DELAYS Previous Scouting America’s Northeast Iowa Council appointed Catherin… Next Up ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Lori Matthias and her husband had tire… Secure transaction. Cancel anytime.
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1 month ago | 
thegazette.com | Kurt Ullrich
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Yips and howls of a small pack of coyotes have returned to the hollow. They have been absent for a couple of weeks and I’ve missed them. Their wild sounds remind me that we are a part of a world that thrived long before any of us showed up. I harbor no ill will toward them, however, others do, and I try to understand.
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1 month ago | 
telegraphherald.com | Kurt Ullrich
Skip to main content You have permission to edit this image. LOCAL CANCELLATIONS & DELAYS Previous APACHE JUNCTION, Ariz. — Joan Violet Pautvein, 82, of Apache… Next Up SCALES MOUND, Ill. — Robert R. Redington, 88, of Scales Mound, died on Thursday,… Secure transaction. Cancel anytime.
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1 month ago | 
telegraphherald.com | Kurt Ullrich
RURAL AMERICA — Yips and howls of a small pack of coyotes have returned to the hollow. They have been absent for a couple of weeks and I’ve missed them. Their wild sounds remind me that we are a part of a world that thrived long before any of us showed up. I harbor no ill will toward them, however, others do, and I try to understand. What might be the last snowfall has come and gone, and when the melt began, I stepped out onto my lane and took a farewell photo. I like winter.
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1 month ago | 
thegazette.com | Kurt Ullrich
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. It’s warm now, and we’re heading into the muck and melt of March, perhaps my least favorite month. Not two weeks ago snow covered the ground out here, temperatures were breathtaking, and silence was all around. On one of those snowy days, my heart broke as I watched a mother deer and her two offspring out my back window.
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1 month ago | 
telegraphherald.com | Kurt Ullrich
RURAL AMERICA - It's warm now, and we're heading into the muck and melt of March, perhaps my least favorite month. Not two weeks ago snow covered the ground out here, temperatures were breathtaking, and silence was all around. On one of those snowy days, my heart broke as I watched a mother deer and her two offspring out my back window.
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2 months ago | 
thegazette.com | Kurt Ullrich
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. On a recent cold Monday, unexpected things entered my head after being told I might be in the midst of a heart attack. It happened a couple of weeks ago when I stopped in an urgent/acute care facility to make sure that my bad cold was nothing more than that, not COVID or RSV, or anything more serious that might affect someone already in heart failure.
