With all the schools that soon will be closing for summer, families are looking forward to vacation time. For many, vacation means being off work, and even if they can’t go anywhere, staying around the house and catching up on things that they couldn’t do while they were working. Others ...
December 1967, our family was watching TV when the phone rang. It was Uncle Joe, Dad’s older brother. Mom handed Dad the phone. Dad’s eyes got wet. Looking down, in a whisper he announced, “Austin (our cousin, Dad’s nephew) was killed in Vietnam.” I was in high school; death was no ...
Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! We were a little on the dry side but that has all changed this week. Continual downpours since Sunday have brought several inches of rain and even flooding in areas around the valley. The forecast for the next few days is dry and sunny so we can ...
I have always been intrigued by the sight of a train engine pulling a long string of freight cars bound for one of the many industrial customers in our area. There was a time when the trains traveling along Ohio 7, or up through Vienna and through Williamstown would be trailed by a caboose, ...
“No one's normal. It just looks that way from across the street.” *** Until a few years ago, I enjoyed the title “young.” Sure, as the years ticked by, that word got stretched out, mumbled and modified, but the word hung on. I could use it with relative confidence that it moderately ...
PARKERSBURG LOST TO THE BROOKLYNS Though the Locals Made a Good Showing – Against the Husky Aggregation from the East – Local Boys had Stage Fright in the Early Innings – But They Soon Braced Up and Played Good Ball. Eighteen hundred people witnessed the ball game at historic ...
