Let's Talk

By Henry Nicolle

Hello again to my friends and neighbors in Rawlins and in our Carbon County communities! The primary elections are over and the general election will be held November 3.

My dinner was almost done and ready to be plated. It was this last Tuesday and I had just spent the day in Rawlins doing interviews and having a fairly full day meeting people.

I went outside to my patio to finish watering plants before sitting down to eat. I had the radio on and I was pouring water on my tomato plant; the news came on to tell me Dolly Parton died.

I was stunned.

Probably like the majority of Americans, if not the majority of the world.

Let's Talk

By Henry Nicolle

Howdy Rawlins and Carbon County communities! The mid-term elections are over. Did you get out and vote? Did your selections prevail? Good for you, if they did. If they did not, “Oh well.” 

The Carbon County Traveler

Mike Armstrong

When I was young and used to visit the farms of my different cousins who lived in Virginia, I was exposed to a fair amount of livestock. Dairy cattle and horses prevailed as what I was around the most. I guess chickens too since I was sent out to collect eggs a few times.

I did not see many pigs.

Something to Chew On

Virginia Parker

Dear Editor,

A decade or so ago I heard some troubling things about the way the Board of County Commissioners was handling the Library System during its last budget crisis.  I don’t remember what my beef was, but I reacted by passive-aggressively canceling my account with a business owned by one commissioner who was particularly outspoken on the matter.  She called my cell and demanded to know why.  

My friend and erstwhile opponent in the 2018 Primary for Governor approached me a few days before election day and said, “Mark, I might actually beat you.” He had good reason to think that. It had been a hard campaign.

By Mike Armstrong

Reporter, Carbon County Comet

I have talked about working on Capitol Hill when I was in my mid-twenties for a famous political analyst and two senators. I learned a lot about politics during those years and I guess if I had not gotten divorced and just wanted to get away from my life in Washington D.C., there is a chance I would have stayed in the political arena.

My last job in the city was working for the international director of the largest labor union in the world.

Dear Editor,

Hello everyone!

My opinions and comments expressed here are exclusively my own and do not represent the owners, publishers or staff of the Carbon County Comet Newspaper. Their gift of this column space is a privilege.

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When Heaven Finally Shares

The cowboys and ranch hands stood

On the porch that day, 

Their coffee had gone cold. 

No one spoke much of yesterday, 

For the dust had all grown old.

The hay fields bowed their thirsty heads,

The creek forgot it’s song. 

The cattle searched for greener hope,

But hope seemed so far gone. 

Then somewhere high above the peaks,

As a kid, I never went to a fair.

While living in Houston, Texas, I got to go to a few rodeos.

I came into contact with husbandry because my father took us to family reunions in the small agricultural town he was raised in Virginia. I learned to milk cows, gather eggs and learned a few things about farm animals.

But I was a kid from the suburbs and I couldn’t wait to get back to my friends and the life I knew.

Let's Talk

By Henry Nicolle

Something to Chew On

By Virginia Parker

Every generation is convinced the world has become more dangerous than it was when they were children. Maybe kids just need to be taught to be aware of things, not afraid.