Shanna (Sissom) Iverson News


Basin Beats & Treats: A 5-year-old’s concerns about Santa

“Daddy, we can’t have our fireplace burning on the night Santa comes,” a little boy told his father, (as I overheard at Market Street in Midland).


Basin Beats & Treats: Baptist Republican and lifelong Democrat prove good bedfellows

With early voting in Midland underway, I’m reminded of my grandparents, and a world not so very long ago when U.S. politics weren’t nearly so divisive.


OPINION: Writer Returns to Writing Columns in Midland Times News

Greetings, fellow Midlanders. It’s been over a decade since I’ve written a column, but how exciting is this opportunity to be small part of such a positive news organization.