Lifestyles: October 2007 Archives

Gurnee may want to change its village slogan after police found themselves rounding up stray llamas and ponies this week. With the week not yet over, there's still time to catch a wandering alpaca or two.

Newspaper editors may have a nose for news, but they’re no match for the The Hound’s sniffer. The Hound can sniff a cigarette smoker a mile away. No brag, just fact.

There was more going on in Wisconsin this past weekend than the Bears-Packers game in Green Bay. Like Geek.kon, a convention of 600 self-described geeks held in Madison.

As a young pup, The Hound was a patrol boy. That meant you helped the younger kids across a busy hard road, as we country folk used to call roads without gravel, on their way to school. Can't imagine in today's litigious society that school officials would put the safety of grade school kids in the hands of a junior high student.