Baseball, Bristol, Butter, and Bahama Mamas

Baseball is a funny game. How many of you were watching the Reds-Braves game  Thursday night when Atlanta broke a 3-3 tie in the...

Fall sports, football, and frustration

Hard to believe that high school fall sports start practice this week after what always seems like a short summer break (why do June...

Odds and Ends

Odds and Ends from the weekend and who knows where—  According to the Dayton Daily News, the Ohio High School Athletic Association has sanctioned a...

Net action, diamond doings, and pigskin divisions

Although I’m not a die-hard tennis fan, I always enjoy watching The Championships at  Wimbledon, particularly the men’s and women’s finals. This year’s ladies'...

Tragedies, State Finances, and the Marlboro Men

There were a lot of disappointed folks around Darke County with the cancellation of the  Greenville fireworks program that was scheduled for Sunday night...

Aunt Betty, The “Cobra”, and Ben Franklin

Kathy and I just returned from a four-day trip to Memphis to celebrate my Aunt Betty’s 97th  birthday, along with my six Tennessee cousins...

Thunder and Lightning and a few reunions

Can you believe that the days are getting shorter already? It seems that summer just arrived, didn’t it, albeit with a vengeance, 90-plus degrees...

Fathers, Oakmont, and Walmart

Hopefully, a Happy Father’s Day was had by all “Dads, Daddys, Pops, Grandpas, Gramps,  etc” out there! Those of us blessed to have or...

Championships, compensation, and comebacks

A plethora of events of note to discuss today, from high school through college to professional sports and later to WW II history, so...

Springtime Sports and Pass the Milk!!

It’s that time of the year when the OHSAA spring sports state finals take place and area teams head to Akron with aspirations of...