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Healthy options for Friday nights

Every person I have ever met seems to have a bad habit to break, or a hurt to heal from, or a hang-up to...

Yes, Southern State changes lives

I covered the GED graduation ceremony last week at Southern State Community College because I was interested in hearing what Hillsboro Mayor Drew Hastings...

SCOL: So long, my old friend

She slipped away quietly after a long and productive life with little fanfare or mention.She was born on Nov. 4, 1922 at the Cherry...

Protecting veterans’ healthcare

We owe all of our veterans and their families who support them our gratitude, our respect, and access to quality, affordable healthcare. It’s despicable...

Remember beaches at Normandy

I never knew my cousin, Patrick (Pat) Joseph Dwyer. He died four years before I was born.My sister Rita doesn’t remember him at all....

Traveling on your stomach

Over the past year, my wife Debbie and I have been traveling around Ohio … eating.Our favorite type of vacation is not an ocean...

Congratulations Class of ‘17

Spring is one of my favorite times of year — it is truly a symbolic time of new beginnings, from the planting of crops...

Teaching, tracking students’ success

At the end of the school year, each Great Oaks campus — Diamond Oaks, Laurel Oaks, Live Oaks and Scarlet Oaks — has a...

Attracting, scavenging for pollinators

June 19-25 has been designated National Pollinator Week by the US Department of Agriculture and the US Department of the Interior. Farmers and gardeners...

Are YOU going to United Kingdom?

This week marks one of the most special of the patriotic holidays in our nation. This week we have all celebrated Memorial Day, or...