Letters to the Editor: Appreciation for Amended Bag Ban
I would like to express appreciation to the Laurel City Council for their July 10 vote to amend the existing…
Head of the class
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, an all-discipline collegiate honor society, initiated the following students during the spring semester:…
Laurel ties to two Major League baseball players
By David Driver The encyclopedic records of Major League Baseball stretch back nearly 150 years, with information available from a…
Native Gardening with Jimmy: Before and after native garden transformation
By Jimmy Rogers About a year ago, I had a strange, early-morning visitor. I heard a midsized dump truck idling…
The Beat of Laurel: Every ride’s a short story
By Bob Reilly For the past seven-plus years, one of my regular activities has been driving for Lyft; I’ve also…
Laurel paper recognized in contest
In July, The Laurel Independent was recognized with two awards in the National Newspaper Association Foundation’s Better Newspaper Contest, competing…
City of Laurel council race has 11 candidates
By Joe Murchison Eleven candidates filed to run in the three city council races — At-Large, Ward 1 and Ward…
16 city candidates file in Laurel
By Joe Murchison Sixteen people met the deadline of July 21 and filed certificates of candidacy for the Laurel mayor…
Election rules questioned
By Joe Murchison A temporary ban on campaigning by candidates for city office has caused confusion among three announced mayoral…
We can’t blame Canada: County air quality gets an F all year round
BY HEATHER MARLÉNE ZADIG Canadian wildfires have been generating an ominous haze and hazardous local air quality across the region…