Simple roast chicken doesnt require a fancy stove or special equipment
Black Maria: a slang term for a police van used to transport prisoners. (From Wikipedia) This is also the printable term used to describe the range at my house. Range is too polite here, really. The homely term stove is better. The walls around it are probably blistered. Not from heat, but from the barrage of blistering language hurled at it when things boil over, cakes emerge like...
Marigolds might deter some pests in the garden but they might attract other pests
There are three schools of thought when it comes to marigolds being natural repellants to pests like insects or rabbits in the garden. One school firmly believes the concept is utter nonsense, another believes that the plants do indeed work as natural deterrents, while a third believes that some marigolds might have some effect on whether insects and rabbits come to the gardenwith some...
It's complicated: College trio named as finalist in research competition
Just hours before dawn on a frigid Monday morning in February, a trio of students from the College of Wooster experienced a eureka moment. After spending 80 hours holed up in a classroom turned topsy-turvy on the third floor of Taylor Hall, sophomores Sayantan Mitra, Dagmawi Zegeye, and Paroma Palchoudhuri finally figured out a solution to a problem posed by the Consortium for Mathematics and its...
NHS welcomes new members May 9
A new class of Hiland High School National Honor Society (NHS) members was inducted in front of family and friends May 8. After society president Bradley Troyers welcome, the selection process for new society members was explained. Each student considered for NHS must complete two of the following: either algebra I or geometry and be enrolled in algebra II, complete biology I or advanced...
Happy grads cross the stage at rainy College of Wooster commencement
It's expected that many words of wisdom will be passed on to graduating seniors during any commencement. The College of Wooster's 144th commencement abounded with advice for the new graduates.Despite the wet weather Monday morning, May 12, graduates and families alike were buzzing with excitement in the Timken Gymnasium. As the Scot Pipe Band led the procession of graduates into the gym, parents...
Young authors gather in New Philadelphia to write, listen and learn
Students from 18 elementary schools attended the Young Authors Conference Friday, May 9 at JIMs Place in New Philadelphia. The 162 students representing their districts came from Carrollton, Dover, Garaway, Harrison Hills, Indian Valley, New Philadelphia, Strasburg-Franklin Local and Immaculate Conception. Author Paul Orshoski spoke to fourth and fifth grade students, shared his books and...
Program holds substance abusers accountable while helping them change lifestyle
They could be people you pass in the aisle of the grocery store, or sit near at a softball game. They might serve your meal, or pass your house on their way to work each morning. In common with each other, they have seen desperation and hopelessness. They have found themselves in the criminal justice system for drug-related offenses, and they are doing the quiet, hard work of putting their lives...
Professor of German finds a second home onstage
In a way, Richard Figge owes both of his careers to the liberal arts. First, there is the teaching and the scholarship. Figge is the Gingrich Professor of German Emeritus at the College of Wooster, where he has taught German language, literature and theater for years. But there also is Richard Figge, actor, who spent his off hours on the Freedlander Theater stage. Never in 30 years, Figge...
Musicians take up authentic Civil War instruments to perform Civil War music
When Benjamin Hanby was a child, his parents operated a stop on the Underground Railroad in Ohio.One of the runaway slaves Hanby met during that time was Joe Selby, who had come from Kentucky and was heading to Canada, where he planned to live as a free man. Selby then planned to return to the country with enough money to buy his fiancee, Nellie Gray, from a slaveholder who had purchased her and...