Searching for a retirement plan
In another 40 or 50 years, I am going to be able to afford to retire.When that day comes, I am going to walk...
Mutts Gone Nuts through downtown
Uma Rose, our great-niece, celebrated her sixth birthday this past week. Uma is a bright-eyed, smart little girl who enjoys little games and the...
The Rocky Fork Lake Catch-22 — you can’t win either way
What’s clear in regard to the stalled $844,000 Rocky Fork Lake grant is that one day out of the blue, officials with the Bureau...
Best sports movies ever made
The Academy Awards are this Sunday and, perhaps not surprisingly, the most recent move I saw, “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,” was not nominated...
A lasting symbol of sacrifices
Claude Freeman, my wife’s late father, was born in Pikeville, Ky., near the Russell Fork River, 99 years ago in August.In October 1945, he...
Gist Settlement took nearly 200 years
When Samuel Gist purchased hundreds of acres of land in southwest Ohio in order to free and settle more than 200 of his Virginia...
What’s really holding up the Rocky Fork Lake grant?
Winning an $844,000 federal grant to fight crime and promote economic and neighborhood revitalization at Rocky Fork Lake was seen as a big victory...
Meet the Statue of Liberty guy
In wintertime, the United States Postal Service and the Ohio Department of Transportation take a motto very seriously — “Neither snow nor rain nor...
What a horrible legacy we have left
I am writing this a couple of days after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. If history is any indicator, sadly, by the time...
High school sure has changed
So apparently I forget to pay attention for the past 13 or so years, and I woke up a few weeks ago to find...
