Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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"Listen my children and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, on the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five..." These lines from the poem "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are familiar to many of us. We learned about Paul Revere's ride to warn the colonists that the British were coming. We also learned about the two lanterns in the steeple of the Old North Church, "one if by land and two if by sea," to signal which of the two routes the British were taking. What...
December 7 is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. It was 79 years ago that Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor to destroy our Pacific Naval Fleet. Most people who were there or heard about it on the radio news that day are gone now. For them, we must never forget what happened on that day, the date President Roosevelt referred to as “a date that will live in infamy.” Imagine, a quiet Sunday morning on the beautiful and peaceful Island of Oahu. Sailors and ships at rest in the harbor, on-duty service personnel keeping their posts whi...
