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Time to fly again: It’s always fun to be above the clouds

  • April 18, 2010
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It always kills me how cool, calm and completely controlled the pilot sounds when he or she comes on the intercom and says something like, “We’re heading for a cruising altitude of 36,000 feet and we’ll be traveling at 650 miles an hour. So just lean back and enjoy your flight.” As if we have a choice. There’s something simply startling about hearing words like those, as if we children of...

Tea time

  • April 18, 2010
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Picture a warm spring afternoon, a wrap-around porch, a small table and two little chairs; add tiny porcelain dishes, tiny little cookies, and when the guests arrive, it’s tea time. The hostess is a sweet little gal in ruffles, bows and curls, the honored guest is a much larger tea drinker, maybe Grandpa maybe Daddy, maybe the dirty-faced boy from next door. No matter who it may be, the guest...

Organize for good times

  • April 18, 2010
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Is there anything in life that is not improved by organizing it? Of course, I don’t think so, but I know it sounds counterintuitive. After all, who wants to organize a rainy day? Sure, there’s a case to be made for time well wasted, but with everything coming at us more, more, more and faster, faster, faster--uncluttering is a good idea no matter what or where. Leisure. Romance. Spirituality...

Calorie counts on menus helpful

  • April 18, 2010
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I’ve heard that the new health care law will require restaurants to provide calorie information to consumers. Will that really improve people’s health? It’s not easy to predict exactly what the outcome will be from these new regulations -- the proof will be in the pudding, as they say. But many nutrition experts believe the law will have a profound effect, one way or another. First, some...

The two ways: Heaven or hell

  • April 18, 2010
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This colored ink painting of the two ways leading to heaven or hell was done by Frederick Hedrick Ledrich, who lived in Troyers Hollow around 1892. Frederick was also a tinsmith, gunsmith, and blacksmith. Along with these trades he operated a small store (this information from Vernon Miller’s book Historical Album of Charm). Local folks traveled deep in the hollow on a very steep road to avail...

More migrant birds are arriving in our area every day

  • April 18, 2010
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During the last week, a number of new arrivals have been found throughout Ohio. Most of them are showing up at about the normal time, although there are some that are ahead of schedule. That has been the case over the last few years. For example, already having 10 reports of Baltimore Orioles in early April is highly unusual. At least one Scarlet Tanager also made an appearance already. Swallows...

Runner-up

  • April 18, 2010
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March Madness is finally over. We experienced a little of the fun by going to our local high school state basketball playoffs, since the school our daughters attended finally made it to State. It was that school’s first trip to the State playoff championship game in many decades and was long overdue. While our girls were in high school, the basketball teams always had disappointingly bad...

OBITUARY | 2010-03-12

  • March 12, 2010
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John Ross McConnell, 19, of New Philadelphia, died very unexpectedly March 1, 2010, at his home. Born Sept. 30, 1990, in Fairborn, John was the son of Michael L. and Janet L. McConnell of New Philadelphia. He was a 2009 graduate of New Philadelphia High School and attended First Baptist Church, New Philadelphia. In his spare time, he enjoyed playing video games, working on his computer, and...

OBITUARY | 2010-03-12

  • March 12, 2010
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Patricia A. Grove, 64, of Dover, died March 2, 2010, at Union Hospital, Dover. A daughter of the late Remus and Lillian Belknap, Pat was born April 29, 1945, in Dover. She was a homemaker and an avid collector of various items. She enjoyed attending auctions but most of all enjoyed spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren. Surviving are her husband, Carl F. Grove, whom she...

OBITUARY | 2010-03-12

  • March 12, 2010
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Albert J. Margo, 89, of Strasburg, died March 2, 2010, at Park Village Health Care Center, Dover. Born May 19, 1920, in Dover, Albert was a son of the late George and Louisa Margo. He retried in 1977 from Republic Steel, Massillon, after 37 years of service, and was a member of the former St. Aloysius Catholic Church, Strasburg, and a life member of the Charles Hofer Post of the Strasburg...