by design | Aug 8, 2021 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ken Lay The start of the 2021 high school football season is less than two weeks away and area teams and coaches are in the midst of preparations for the upcoming campaign. But four local players from Carter High School took a break from the game Tuesday afternoon...
by design | Aug 8, 2021 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill Ohio and Virginia vie for having produced the most Presidents of the United States. William Henry Harrison, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Howard Taft and Warren G. Harding were all...
by design | Aug 8, 2021 | Columnist, Duncan, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By John J. Duncan Jr. My sweet, beautiful wife, Lynn, passed away on Sunday, August 1, and there are no words strong enough to express how much I am going to miss her. I told her near the end that she had been my earthly angel and now she would be my heavenly angel....
by design | Aug 8, 2021 | Black, Columnist, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Dr. Harold A. Black There may be a force that could lead to a breaking up of the United States that is not due to a constitutional crisis provoked by the Federal government (see my article on HR 1). That would be the mandating of renewables to power electric...
by design | Aug 8, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson, Stories In This Week's Focus:
An evil enemy will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes. –Sun Tzu (from The Art of War) By Dr. Jim Ferguson There is the expression of reading or hearing something for the first time, despite having read or heard it before. You might say the...
by design | Aug 8, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Tom Mattingly Sometimes sportswriters come up with an idea that makes sense years later. The year was 1926. It was a Monday, Labor Day, Sept. 6. The baseball pennant races were in full swing. The football season was set to begin on Sept. 25. A new coach was ready...