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Thoughts on big Fat Tuesday
As I write, it’s Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras — whatever you choose to call it. But by whatever name it is referred, it is that...
Drew’s father-in-law visits Hillsboro
Since the criminal investigation into Mayor Drew Hastings became public on Dec. 16, I have tried to remain open to the notion that there might be real...
February 8th, 2016 updated: February 8th, 2016. |
South Central Ohio League re-forms
Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series on the history of the South Central Ohio League as penned in Paul Edwin Maple’s 1964 seminar pape...
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. |
