Daylight Saving Debated; Prairie Dog Subcommittee to Report This Fall

CALICHE CORNERS— Monday’s council workshop ran seventeen minutes past the posted end time, a scandal by local standards. The topic: whether our valley ought to “spring forward” with the rest of the county or remain, as elder statesrattler put it, “on God’s honest sundial.”

Chairwoman Prairie appointed a five-member subcommittee—three prairie dogs known for punctuality, one skeptical tortoise, and a night-shift owl pledged to neutrality. Their mandate: interview farmers, school bus drivers, and the proprietors of Edna’s Bakery, because cinnamon rolls are affected by morale, and morale by clocks.

Public comment ranged from patriotic (“Synchronized success!”) to practical (“the chickens do not care what the wall says”). Clerk Gerbil recorded each remark in duplicate, carbon paper crackling like autumn leaves.

A full report is due the Tuesday after Labor Day next year, with charts and, ideally, pie. Until then, residents are encouraged to keep being neighborly regardless of what hour it technically is—small-town America’s real time zone is kindness, and we’ve never needed a vote to fall back on that.