Columns
Iowa firsthand, & a sad passing
The political world’s focus was on Iowa over the weekend, and Hillsboro’s mayor had a firsthand look at all the excitement leading up to M...
February 1st, 2016 updated: February 2nd, 2016. |
The early years of the SCOL
Before it disbanded from 1993 through 2002, the South Central Ohio League was often referred to as the oldest continuously operating conference in the...
Right now is what we’ve got
On Saturday with the forecasted snow of Friday I planned nothing more than to stay home, tucked away indoors with nothing at all to do. It was nice, a...
Trump and the wistful right
A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine who works in Republican politics called me. He will likely be involved in the GOP convention in Cleveland late...
January 25th, 2016 updated: January 25th, 2016. |
An old friend I never knew
When the office telephone rang one day last week, Paul Edwin Maple’s 1964 book, “A History of the South Central Ohio High School Athletic ...
For all the critters in your freezer
I know gun season was last month and the normal week plus those two extra days netted some venison for my fellow Highland Countians, but I’m sti...
Holmes’ consistency is assuring
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories have been among my favorite literary pastimes since I was a child, spurred originally by the old mo...
January 18th, 2016 updated: January 18th, 2016. |
It was a fall Friday night
It was a fall Friday night like many during my teenage years, with a football game unfolding at Richards Memorial Field in Hillsboro. I had no plans a...
January 15th, 2016 updated: January 15th, 2016. |
Can’t we all just say thank you?
Let me start by saying what almost everyone else is saying since we reported online Wednesday the identity of the donor of the $78,000 gift to the cit...
January 14th, 2016 updated: January 14th, 2016. |
It is not too late for holiday fun
I recently found out there was a whole museum and a whole house (THE house, by the way) in Cleveland dedicated to “A Christmas Story,” one...
