No matter how tough the going gets, I have found that there are countless people here in our region who find a way to persevere and make the best of things. On Wednesday night, I received word that a structure fire had broken out in a remote part of Belmont County, not far from Jacobsburg and ...

On Thursday, March 14, 1968, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke at Grosse Pointe South High School in an affluent Detroit, Michigan suburb. The title of his talk was “The Other America.” It also said he gave the same title on April 14, 1967, at Stanford University. It is ...

Last week Lynnda and I traveled to Florida for a short winter getaway. The weather forecaster on TV said, “Tomorrow will be a cold night. Our low will be 47 degrees.” That’s warmer than our high temperature in Charleston. This trip is primarily pleasure with some business mixed in. ...

There’s nothing quite like a good hamburger when you’re in the mood for one. My husband, Mike, and I know this. We don’t often go out for a burger at a restaurant, but we do really enjoy grilling fresh, locally raised meat during the warmer months, and burgers are no ...

We visited our kids and grandkids last weekend in Maryland. On the way home Lynnda read me excerpts of a memoir, “Doctor Miriam” written by Miriam Daly, MD. Dr. Daly was a mentor for Lynnda beginning when she was a candy striper (hospital volunteer) at age 15 in Albion, Michigan. Lynnda ...

Travel and tourism in Ohio and across the country are significant economic development engines, employing hundreds of thousands of people and generating hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue. Locally, tourism is a strong component of our economy, and we work to continuously increase ...