Columns & Opinions

Dear Faithful Subscriber, We are so thankful that you have been a Cass County Citizen Journal-Sun customer. Due to inflation, however, we will have to raise our rates after the beginning of 2023 to cover the increasing expense of producing and mailing out copies of the newspaper.

Once Christmas has passed, the world looks to a new year. Many wonder what the new year will bring while planning their own ways of ringing in 2023. It will be a year marked with war in some nations and peace in others. There will be triumph, and there will be heartbreak. But in the meantime, the world will pause to celebrate the end of one year and the hopes for the next.

An arctic storm that swept through the state bringing low temperatures and high winds also affected roughly two-thirds of the country’s population, according to the National Weather Service, bringing the coldest Christmas in decades to parts of the country.