OK just go buy a “pillow pet”.  Though the hang tag says for ages 0 through 100, I see no reason to toss it just because one reaches one hundred.  In the summer, I mow, weed flowers, garden, sit…

  Went to Carthage on Monday to buy some antiques from a family that was moving.  Since there are few auctions now, I am trying to buy more privately for the store.  Since I was already in Carthage, decided to…

  While we have been catching up on year end comments and wishes, three people from our communities have passed.  Our sympathy to the family and friends of Clyde Bostic of Plymouth who passed two days before Christmas, Joe Benjamin…

  We have not only entered a New Year but a new decade.  Remember when we were entering 2000?  That seemed like such a milestone and now it has been twenty years since that happened.  Do not know about events…

  Snow- check, almost gone- check, Christmas cards in the mail- check, house decorated-check, yard decorated-check, pots in front of store decorated-check, Christmas minor miracle-check.  Thursday I had a gentleman in the store from Keokuk.  When he went to put…

  If there is a perfect snow, it is falling as I write.  The snow started about noon in Augusta and it is still falling at 9 pm.  There is no ice under it, there is no wind, it is…

  Just a reminder that Santa will be visiting children in Plymouth on Saturday, December 14th beginning at 10 am at the legion building on the west side of the Plymouth Square.  There will be treats for everyone attending and…

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  Our communities lost a long time resident on November 29th.  Dale William Bruenger had lived in our area all his life and leaves a large family as his legacy.  Our sympathy to his family and friends. The Plymouth American…

  Plymouth lost two people this week.  The first was Betty Nooner.  Though I did not know her personally, I understand that we have the Drug Store in common.  Betty and her husband ran the drug store in Plymouth.  I…