Observations and a Darke County road quiz

Observations after another late summer/early autumn week, weather wise— After week four of the high school football season, it’s starting to become evident who...

Tragedies and Triumphs

It was a sad and tragic two days for the Greenville City Schools and the Greenville community as a whole, Thursday and Friday. To...

A Hot Seat, High School Sports, and Arch Madness?

The traditional end of summer has arrived with Labor Day weekend. The start of college football, schools are in full session, the air is...

Remember (THE) Maine and Bah-Ha-Bah

This week’s column is a little late, as the Warners were on the road in the northeasternmost state of the good old USA, the...

Fall Sports and the NCAA strikes again

We hosted good friends from Athens, Georgia, and Hudson, Ohio, over the weekend as they returned to West Central Ohio for The Great Darke...

The Fair, a Long Boot, and Little League

It’s that time of the year here in Darke County, as the annual ritual since 1853, known as the Great Darke County Fair, once...

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'...