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The scourge of your summer driving

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I’m that guy, the scourge of your summer highway driving.The one driver who’s driving the variable “work zone” speed limit while you’re zooming by.I...

The gentle barber on Main Street

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My wife, Brenda, and I were traveling to Gettysburg, Pa., and had been driving for two hours without a break. Our electronic dashboard kept...

Take it where you can get it

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If there’s anything I have learned in life, it is that I am grateful. Grateful for all I have been blessed with and grateful...

City’s biggest eyesore needs to go

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For the past couple months there has been much debate in Hillsboro about the plight of some buildings in the 100 block of West...

‘The world’s best son’

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The Pony House Saloon opened in Dayton in 1882 at Fourth and Jefferson streets in a downtown full of dusty horses and thirsty men.Known...

What a mess we have on our hands

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I am writing this just a couple of days after the recent mass murders in both El Paso, Texas and Dayton. Although random massacres...

Time for self-examination

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It was brought to my attention over the weekend that in the craziness of day to day life we tend to take important things...

Seeing words a sight for sore eyes

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I came home from the eye doctor a few days ago, and my phone buzzed.I pulled it out and realized something terrifying: I couldn’t...

Church in the lonesome pines

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My wife’s late mother, Margaret Whitt Freeman, grew up in southwest Virginia not far from the Clinch Mountains, where the air is pure, the...

We have to do something, right?

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I would wager that you were horrified when you read about the recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton. Only a maniac could...