Carrying even a tabletop tripod for your digital camera while you're on vacation is just plain inconvenient. Where to put it while you're hiking a trail and how not to lose it are just two of the questions you have to ask yourself. Well, consider the small, lightweight HandPod from Marvin's Camera in downtown Belleville. Attached to an adjustable lanyard you can wear around your neck, the HandPod screws into the tripod socket on the bottom of your camera. It provides stability, keeps...
A new instructional driving service in Granite City is now teaching teens and adults and helping them get their license.
Q: We put out hummingbird feeders in mid-April and before the hummingbirds came, there were two yellowish-orange birds feeding from the feeders.
Q. I married a Junior. I get confused on how I should sign/address cards, invitations, etc., jointly. I know it would be "Mr. & Mrs. Todd Jones Jr." but what if I wanted to use my name as well? Would it be "Mr. & Mrs. Todd and Mary Jones Jr."?
A show of hands, please. How many of you husbands out there have a small pile of wood in the garage, out back or in that spare bedroom?
"No starting pitching, no outfield and, possibly, no healthy ligaments in Albert Pujols' elbow. This is shaping up to be a disastrous season in St. Louis. ... They don't have any team speed, and they don't have anybody who can really protect Albert Pujols in the lineup."
Q. Since you're so good at coming up with old movies, try this one from my dad: He remembers a John Wayne movie in which three men in the desert wind up adopting a baby. How about it, smart guy?
Some of you may be getting a little tired of Uno by now. I know I groaned when the Little Beagle That Could showed up on the front page of our newspaper -- again.
Even though he is retired, Mascoutah School District business manager Robert Zerkle still is bringing in awards and accolades.
