The New Era - All about Sweet Home since 1929

These are certainly tumultuous times.

June’s been a wild month, so far; certainly not what many of us expected as we cruised merrily into a new year back in January. Our staff can recall a lot of people (around us, anyway) anticipating “a good year.”

The past three months have been good, in ways, for some: retail store owners who weren’t forced to close and who have benefited from a steady flow of largely unemployed customers fueled by government relief funds and lots of free time; for dogs who have gotten lots more mileage on walks with their families than they might have expected...