By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor March 10-16 is Sunshine Week. OK, I know it has looked more like Cold Wet Slushy Snow Week, but for we media folk, it is another opportunity to rag on you about the importance of transparency in government and how crucial it is to...

By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor It has been 23 years since computers first made a daring appearance at the County Line office. I say "daring" because we were at the dawn of the digital revolution for a small weekly newspaper. As always, too broke to do it right,...

By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor I had not heard of the Elmwood School until Steve Olson of Kendall dropped by this week with a short history of the rural school. Once located a few miles from Kendall, it is only a dim memory to most people, but its story is...