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Diet & Exercise: Essential nutrients: B12, one of nature’s most complex, helpful vitamins

This week’s nutrient is vitamin B12 also known as cobalamin, methylcobalamin (the most active form in the human…

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I’m Just Saying: Retrograde, schmectograde!

It was sometime in the late ‘70s that I first heard the astrological term, “Mercury in retrograde” —…

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Special Cases: When hearts collide

It was Holy Thursday, and I was sitting at T.J.’s restaurant, quietly having breakfast.  I had just taken…

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Remember When: Remembering Bill Weller

No, you don’t know Bill Weller. I just want to tell you about him, a colleague who I…

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Saluda News & Notations: Mother Earth singing all around this time of year

“Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort…

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Tales of the Hunts: Worms

Walking into the garage, my son asks an interesting question. “Do you have worms, Dad?” “Yep, I’m loaded…

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Faith & Worship: The resurrection — don’t miss it!

“And entering the tomb, they saw a young man clothed in a long white robe sitting on the…

Adventures on Horseback - Catherine Hunter

Adventures on Horseback: The most fun I’ve ever had on a horse

I was a Civil War cavalry reenactor for more than 20 years. Not because I was really into…

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Shelf Life: You’re a poet and you know it

Fancy yourself a poet? Celebrate National Poetry Month with Polk County Public Libraries by entering our poetry contest!…

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Diet & Exercise: Essential nutrients: B9 important vitamin for preventing birth defects

Folate, also known as folic acid, folacin, and vitamin B9, was discovered between 1931 and 1943, and is…