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Car Talk

Dear Car Talk: I have a 1969 Buick with a 430-cubic-inch engine. It will start and run fine. But when I go to turn the car off, it keeps on running, even though the key is all the way in the “off” position. The only way to stop the engine is by disconnecting the positive cable of the battery and turning the key to the crank position. The only thing to add is that when I go to put the positive cable back on, it sparks like something is on, even though nothing is on. Any help would be appreciated. — Bob OK, how about if I help you write a classified ad for this thing, Bob? ...

Dear Annie

Dear Annie: My husband and I plus our four children currently reside in a first floor apartment. I love this because I don’t have to tell the kids to tiptoe everywhere so as not to disturb the downstairs neighbors. However, our upstairs college neighbors are extremely heavy-footed and always sound like they are on an expedition. We have only talked to them once while they were having a video game party and asked that they not stomp wildly every time someone won or lost. They were fine with that and quieted down some. Recently, one of the young men in the apartment got a girlfriend. ...

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Dear Annie

Dear Annie: I’m a 17-year-old girl, and I will be turning 18 next month. I’m a senior in high school, and my grades are excellent! I’ve applied to all of my colleges, and now I’m waiting for the decisions, which I will find out very soon. I live in Arizona, and the schools are in New ...

To Your Good Health

DEAR DR. ROACH: I contracted COVID on the last couple of days of a cruise in August. COVID ran its course, but I contracted a nasty lung infection that took about three weeks to clear. Following this, I developed severe achiness in my knees, to the point that I am still walking stiffly and, at ...

Dear Annie

Dear Readers: So many of you wrote about the widow columns that I printed recently, and made some interesting points, so I wanted to share a few of these letters with everyone. Dear Annie: Oh, wow! I just saw this in our paper and pointed it out to my wife. She didn’t believe it at first, and I was just as surprised. Widows being shunned by their friends out of fear they will lose their husbands to them! What troubles me most is that we’re already facing an “epidemic of loneliness” in this country, and that kind of attitude — rooted in fear or mistrust — only makes things ...