WinCity Voices

10/03/2025

To survive, animals have instinctive reactions to the weather, migrating birds being just one example. Knowing how game animals react in differing weather conditions can up a hunter's chance of a successful kill. Deer depend heavily on scent to protect themselves from predators. They usually respond to a strange scent by bugging out before hunters get close. Deer move into the wind to better pick up scents. To take advantage of this, a hunter must move and stay downwind of his prey. This can be determined by the old wet finger trick....

To survive, animals have instinctive reactions to the weather, migrating birds being just one example. Knowing how game animals react in differing weather conditions can up a hunter's chance of a s…

10/03/2025

Jeff’s Playlist: October 3, 2025

A good one from The Band. Recorded and released in 1971. Give it a listen. I think you’ll like it.

10/02/2025

September was another record-breaker! Can we ask a favor? Social Media is what spurs our growth. Please continue to interact with our posts and share them with your circle of friends!

10/02/2025

We at WinCity Voices would like to issue a heartfelt congratulations to our friend and colleague Matt Cizek on being named editor of The Wi******er Sun! We have a great working relationship with the Sun, and we know Matt will bring fresh energy and new ideas to our town’s newspaper.

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10/02/2025

10/02/2025

Today's Reel Classic is set during the Great Depression of the 1930s, where we meet the Joad family, sharecroppers living on a farm in Oklahoma. At that time, Oklahoma was known as the “Dust Bowl” due to the ongoing drought that had a devastating impact on farmers. Here we meet Tom Joad (Henry Fonda), who has been released from prison and is hitchhiking his way back home to the family farm in Oklahoma. Along the way, he meets up with Jim Casy (John Carradine), the preacher from back home who had baptized Tom. Casy has since lost his faith and is no longer a preacher, struggling to survive as many others are during these desperate times. He accompanies Tom back to the family farm, where they find it deserted. One of the Joads' neighbors, Muley Graves, is hiding out at the old farm. He shares with Tom how local farmers have been evicted from their land by the deed holders, and their houses are being knocked down. Tom learns his family is at his uncle's house....

Today's Reel Classic is set during the Great Depression of the 1930s, where we meet the Joad family, sharecroppers living on a farm in Oklahoma. At that time, Oklahoma was known as the “Dust Bowl”…

10/01/2025

If you tried to view the two stories we shared this morning from Tiffani Hays and Ned Royse, you might not have been able to open them. We have reposted the stories, and they are now working. No idea what happened to the earlier posts. If you missed them the first time around, please check out these fantastic stories, which garnered a combined 1,000+ page views when they debuted!

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10/01/2025

Here’s another story from yet another new contributor to WCV, Tiffani Hays, that you enjoyed back in August. Looking for something to do? Check out all that Wi******er offers!

I’ve been a lifelong resident of Wi******er, except for my time in college and a summer abroad. One thing people have always said is, “There is nothing to do in Wi******er.” I used to agree with th…

10/01/2025

We’re finding ourselves a bit short on new content this week, so today we’re sharing a couple of stories from earlier in the year that you enjoyed the most, based on page views. This one is from new contributor Ned Butler Royse, and it’s a good one.

Wi******er is more progressive than one may think. It is a town with immigrants, veterans, witches, yogis, disability rights advocates, cyclists, artists, grannies, and anarchists. It is a place fo…

09/30/2025

It appears that some Republican Kentucky legislators struggle to disentangle themselves from the concept of “charter schools,” even when they attempt to reframe it under new terms, the most recent being “schools of innovation.” Kentucky Senator Stephen West has introduced Senate Bill 207 along with five Republican co-sponsors to allow local school districts to “subcontract their management to outside entities such as charter school operators,” as noted in a recent Kentucky Lantern news report....

It appears that some Republican Kentucky legislators struggle to disentangle themselves from the concept of “charter schools,” even when they attempt to reframe it under new terms, the most recent …

09/30/2025

For most of its history, Wi******er residents traveled on unpaved streets that were at various times a dusty nuisance or muddy quagmire. The macadam streets, made of crushed, compacted rock, required constant, costly maintenance—spraying with water or oil to keep the dust down or filling in ruts and potholes. Problems escalated with the arrival of the automobile. Cries from downtown merchants moved the city council to pass a brick street ordinance (1911). It called for property owners to pay for paving based on their street frontage. The plan included paving Main Street from French Avenue to the L&E bridge, as well as the Main cross streets for one block in both directions. The contract for Main Street went to Daniels, Lyste, and Douglas of Anderson, Indiana, on their bid of $35,555. Paving commenced in October 1912 and was completed in December of that year....

For most of its history, Wi******er residents traveled on unpaved streets that were at various times a dusty nuisance or muddy quagmire. The macadam streets, made of crushed, compacted rock, requi…

09/29/2025

I recently went out for pizza with my friend Alli. Around us, there were three tables with infants of various ages. When one of the babies started crying, the other infants started wailing too, not from confusion, but from recognition. I noticed one young mother surreptitiously sliding a napkin into her bra, her milk letting down in response to the crying. Alli and I, mothers ourselves, smiled wryly at the babies and their parents, releasing oxytocin into our own bloodstreams. This whole scene was a perfect example of empathy in action, a neurobiological firing of mirror neurons, those tiny circuits that connect nearby nervous systems. Empathy is immediate, visceral, and deeply human. It’s one nervous system saying to another, I see your pain....

I recently went out for pizza with my friend Alli. Around us, there were three tables with infants of various ages. When one of the babies started crying, the other infants started wailing too, not…