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Opinion.

New education director

Editorials

“Virtually every governor for 40 or 50 years has wanted to have more control in regard” to education policy, Gov. Mike DeWine said last fall. And according to a report by the Ohio Capital Journal, lawmakers are making another attempt at giving governors that control. State Sen. Bill ...

Maintaining momentum

Editorials

There was perhaps some optimism brewing in Ohio at the beginning of the year, as entrepreneurs resolved to take the leap and start their own businesses in the Buckeye State. According to Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s office, there were 17,006 new business filings in January, the highest ...

A visit with some local business leaders

Columns

I was honored this past week to have the chance to speak to the Barnesville Rotary Club. Dr. Douglas Huff, my eye doctor, extended the invitation and told me I could talk about any topic of my choosing. While I pondered leading a discussion about Ohio history and the township system that was ...

The ‘Butterfly Effect’ or why you matter

Columns

The Butterfly Effect is a hypothesis presented to the New York Academy of Science in 1963 by Edward Lorenz. His theory simply stated is: A butterfly could flap its wings and set molecules of air in motion, which would move other molecules of air, in turn moving more molecules of ...

Opposing HB 509

Letters to the Editor

Editor’s note: Letters such as the one that follows are being sent to Ohio state lawmakers by fire departments throughout our region. Some of those departments asked that an example be published as a letter to the editor, in an effort to inform the public and garner support for their efforts. ...

Owner still searching for Rufus

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, On Dec. 10, 2022 your newspaper kindly published my Letter to the Editor concerning my lost Basset hound. Rufus, age 1, went missing from Barnesville on Nov. 5. It’s now been three long, cold months, 10 days and eight hours since Rufus disappeared from the backyard of his ...