Gut-hooked bass are nearly always dead bass, but this one was just barely gut hooked. Thankfully, I’d pressed the barb...
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It's Greek to us
Just a few years ago, I didn’t even know how to pronounce “gyro.” Now I’m eating them. And loving them. And wondering...
Blood Brother
He materializes out of river-bottom tangles, silent as the morning mist that hangs thick in the cottonwood and...
10 Things About: Daniel Connerly
Age: 37 Occupation: I am the Food Services Director for the Russellville School District. Hometown: Bred and born in...
Called to do heroic things
Olive green figures cover the flat expanse in attack formation. Some lay prone with bipod-supported M-16s and some aim...
Gearhead
The Tacoma skidded to a stop in loose gravel that might generously be called a parking lot as the two young men...
Mechanical Failure
I’ve never been mechanically inclined. I’ve tinkered a bit. Back in high school, a more knowledgable...
10 Things About: Brian Eisele
Age: 36 Occupation: Owner of the Oark General Store and CEO of the Clarksville-Johnson County Chamber of Commerce....
The tastieest burger
Not that long ago, or at least it doesn’t seem so long ago, if you wanted a cheeseburger in Atkins there was one...
Slow Smoked Success
The trees lining State Highway 64 in Russellville fairly vibrate with the summer buzzing of cicadas. Their song is...
10 Things About: Danielle Housenick
Age: 41 Occupation: Executive director of Main Street Russellville Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We’ve lived in...
A delicious building block of community
Nobody really knows how and when we started cooking. But somewhere back in our murky past, meat found...
Devoted – 2020
Marital love often has a fairytale aura. There’s talk of finding “the one,” the single person on this planet with whom...
What you see is what you get
Simple is often underrated. It’s easy to get caught up in fancy presentations and complexities in taste. My favorite part of the process in researching (read as “eating”) food for Valley Vittles columns are the often pretentious conversations with Liz about just what…
10 things About: Jimmy Streett
Age: 41Occupation: Attorney at Streett Law FirmHometown: Born here at Saint Mary’s, which was actually founded by my...
Sunfish
Sunfish… Memories of sunburst colors that put most tropical fish to shame still spring to my mind whenever I hear the...