Pesticide use and depression in farmers
Organic farming may be as important to the farmers who practice it as to those who purchase and eat the food they grow. This year, researchers with the National Institute of Health completed a landmark, 20-year study of the connection between pesticides and depression in farmers.
Touching Home
We are returning home to Piedmont after a whirlwind visit to Darlington- my wife, daughter and son-in-law. The scenery along the road is breathtaking. I never knew there were so many shades of green! One doesn’t have to guess that spring is here.
About Revival Meetings
Ah, to be in a revival again! Like the revivals I attended as a boy! Nothing could stir the village folk up like the announcement that the traveling evangelist was coming!
Letters to the Editor – April 15, 2015
On behalf of the Free Medical Clinic of Darlington County and Darlington Raceway, please consider joining us for our tenth annual “Walk with the Docs”, as we honor the hearts of our volunteer medical community.
Water is life
Here in the west, we understand that there is much truth in the old joke that whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting. Rural and small town America depend on water and our neighbors downstream count on us to preserve the quality of that water for them. And farmers and ranchers are the tip of the spear when it comes to protecting water quality because much of our surface water falls first on American farms and ranches.
Words make a difference
By Bill Shepard It is strange and past my understanding as to how little and insignificant things can start one’s minds to working! Sometimes it is a song, a fragrance, even a word spoken, and our mind takes off to long yesteryears. We recall people, faces, things and events of long, long ago. It would take a person much smarter than I to explain such a mystery. All I know is that it happens, and often to me. Like a while back, when...