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Magic words on Mother’s Day
By TIM BEELAND
Thu,05/06/21-2:12PM , 1,789 Reads
It seems like it has been forever since the second Sunday of May — Mother’s Day — in the year 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic. That was also the first Mother’s Day that we put flowers on my mother’s grave rather than delivering her a hanging basket in person. I sure wish things were different on both fronts.
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1944 booklet being donated to library
By TIM BEELAND
Tue,05/04/21-1:46PM , 1,373 Reads
A pictorial history book of sorts will soon be available for viewing at the Forest Public Library. Pictorial Honor Roll, Scott County, Men and Women in Service, is a 1944 publication of The Scott County Times and is being donated to the library by Dell Reeves.
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Don’t punch go because Google said so
By TIM BEELAND
Fri,04/30/21-8:51AM , 1,284 Reads
If you don’t know any more about a cell phone than I do, never try to do something with one unless you are absolutely certain you know what you are doing when you punch go.
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Scott County Coroner J. Van Thames in front of the new county morgue located in the old Health Department building in Morton.

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First official morgue set to open
By TIM BEELAND
Thu,04/29/21-12:08PM , 2,676 Reads
Grieving families will soon have a more comfortable atmosphere in which to identify bodies of family members with the establishment of Scott County’s first morgue. The morgue, which can handle up to 12 bodies will be located in the old Health Department Building next to Scott Regional Hospital in Morton.
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