Opinions from The Tipton Conservative

Arts And Entertainment
by Mary Barnum · June 20, 2008
The Cedar County Stoplight Players’ dinner theatre production “Vanities” opened last Friday and continues its run this week, on Thursday, June 19, Friday, June 20 and Saturday, June 21 at St. Mary’s Parish Hall in Tipton. It is another very fine production by the Players, with excellent directing, acting, set, and organization.

RAGBRAI Realy
by Travis Alden, Executive Co-Chair · June 20, 2008
It is important to keep things in perspective, especially now with the crisis that many in Eastern Iowa are experiencing due to the flooding of 2008. With this disaster going on, a party event like RAGBRAI definitely takes a backseat. However, RAGBRAI is still on track. Last week wee met with the organizers from Des Moines and despite some rumors RAGBRAI will NOT be cancelled.

Tipton Conservative Editorial
by Krista Clark · June 20, 2008
There are endless things you can say about the flood of 2008.

In Our Time
by Krista Clark · June 20, 2008
For those anticipating reading Barb Hall Palar’s second piece about RAGBRAI, you’re going to have to wait a bit.

Tipton Conservative Editorial
by Krista Clark · June 12, 2008
It’s been over 2 weeks since a tornado flattened half of Parkersburg, which is just west of Cedar Falls, killing half a dozen people in the town of 1,000. Nearby rural areas also suffered damage from the same storm system. As mentioned here last week, a former Cedar County man, Norman Beuthien, was one of the tornado’s victims.

Tipton Conservative Editorial
by Krista Clark · June 04, 2008
Although we’ve had lots of rain of late, some stormy weather and cold temperatures, no one in Cedar county can truly complain that we’ve suffered much from this spring’s weather, at least not compared to people living Butler and Grundy counties, just west of Cedar Falls.

In Our Time
by Krista Clark · June 04, 2008
I’ve written of late about the troubles that my dog Raleigh’s been experiencing.
He continues to do well, though the lampshade collar has stayed on, as when I took it off he immediately licked off the scab from the portion of his incision he’d previously opened.

Letters To the Editor
by Various · June 04, 2008

Arts and Entertainment
by Mary Barnum · June 04, 2008
The newest Indiana Jones movie, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is amassing great sums at box offices everywhere. Harrison Ford still looks good in the role of Professor Jones, archeologist extraordinaire, and there is most definitely a lot of action in this fourth film of his adventures in the field.

Tipton Conservative Editorial
by Krista Clark · May 30, 2008
The second Tuesday in July the 8th, Tipton voters will go to the polls for a second time to vote on a proposed new fire station.

In Our Time
by Krista Clark · May 30, 2008
To say that I was in for a chore tak-ing care of Raleigh, the Big White Dog, after he’d had his surgery to remove that nasty tumor is something of an understatement.

In Our Time
by Krista Clark · May 22, 2008
My Mom calls our front yard dog “Raleigh, the big white dog,” a play on the description of “Clifford, the big red dog,” if you know what that means.
Raleigh’s a familiar sight to many who’ve driven by our house on west 9th Street over the past 10 years.