If you ventured along Greenwood’s Montague Avenue in the Uptown district on a regular basis during the pandemic, you likely noticed that Greenwood Community Theatre has been trying to make the best of a bad situation.

Something rather cool is brewing over at Good Times.

Set aside political differences for now, please. This is not about politics; it’s about a person, but one who happens to have had a long political ride — for now, at least — on Tuesday.

Yes, it’s been a rough year. A tough year. People are ready to burn their 2020 calendars and replace them with a 2021 calendar.

Anyone who’s followed the IJ for a few years — maybe not our full 101 years, mind you — knows we will weigh in on various issues, usually local or state ones, but when Election Day rolls around we tend to steer clear of endorsing candidates.

As Election Day 2020 nears, and as much as we join most readers in longing for 2021 to get here, we cannot help but think back to the election night 2000.

While it wasn’t a fly-by-night decision, at the end of the day it wasn’t the best decision we’ve made.

There’s just something about a good radio voice. Sunny 103.5’s Dave Fezler has one of those radio voices that grabs your attention and can make you hang onto every word. The tone. The baritone, in his case. The intonation. The inflection.

Year in and year out — and Chris Trainor, Scott J. Bryan and a host of others who have come and gone through these journalistic hallways on Phoenix Street — we get the same question: When will we have Halloween this year?

If you’re like most readers, you already perused the front page and saw the news about our Weekender edition, which debuts Saturday, Oct. 3.

If there is one man around Greenwood who can raise a ruckus, and do so with an entrepreneurial flair, it’s Karl Ziegler.

Feel free to amble on because I’m inclined to ramble on in this one.

If nothing else, this pandemic has caused a good many of us to slow down a bit and, really, what choice did we have?

Chris Trainor’s right, you know.

Note: This column was originally published in the most recent edition of our So Lakelands magazine. Fellow columnist Chris Trainor, a regular contributor to So, was inadvertently credited with writing this too. We surely don’t want anyone being misled and think, “Gosh, Chris. You usually do …

As you’re reading this, Uptown Greenwood is fairly quiet. It normally is on Sunday mornings, but this weekend would have been different were it not for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Well, that was rather disappointing.

OK, I think I have things straightened out in my head now. Admittedly, it took a while. Actually, almost 21 years.