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Motherhood, My Way—No Regrets, If, Ands, or Buts

  • May 25, 2010
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Graduation time is upon us, and I’m not sad. My son is not graduating from high school; no I’m not that old! But rather leaving the middle school and moving on up to the ranks of the big, bad high school—the rulers of the school, the big shots, the kingpins, the big dudes in Dover. I see other mothers upset that their little sons and daughters are growing up. But not me. These mothers...

Borderline neighbors

  • May 25, 2010
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It means more. Sometimes we have to be brushed by tragedy to really care about things that should already concern us. Things we say concern us. Like breast cancer. Sunday, I watched my brother drive down the county line, disk harrow behind the tractor as he headed to a neighbor’s little farm to work his fields. The neighbor’s wife is dying of breast cancer. Later that morning, my sister and I...

Summer fun right around the corner as school draws to a close

  • May 25, 2010
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Ahhh, the final days of school... there ain’t nuthin’ like ‘em. I can use words that aren’t truly words like that in this blog because as most of you probably already know, school is coming to an end... at least for the summer. Every year about this time, summer sun ushers in summer fun, and there are all kinds of exciting options waiting with every rising sun. However, before that...

24 -- A Morality Play Starring Jack Bauer

  • May 25, 2010
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The clock has ticked its final second and the Fox network's highly-rated 24, starring Kiefer Sutherland, is officially over.I have to admit, I have only really watched two seasons of the show, which features "real-time" hour segments of a 24-hour day in the life of Counter-Terrorism Unit specialist Jack Bauer as he and CTU fight against all that is evil. But those two seasons sucked me in and I...

Blurred Vision

  • May 25, 2010
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I think I was in the fourth-grade when I got my first pair of glasses. My mom noticed that I was squinting all of the time and apparently I had begun to complain about headaches. I still remember the frames – they were dark green. At the time, I didn't realize how terrible they looked, but now as I go through old photos, I can say they were pretty hideous. That's the funny thing about...

New minister at Nashville United Church of Christ

  • May 25, 2010
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Like many young boys, when Brad Dodson was a kid he had a nickname. Unfortunately, he hated his nickname and hoped to never fulfill the destiny that accompanied it.“I was involved in church a lot as a kid and so I was labeled Preacher Boy Dodson, which I hated,” he shared. “I decided then there was no way that I would ever be a minister…of course, 15 years later, here I am, and I’m...

A beautiful morning well spent

  • May 25, 2010
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It was a gorgeous morning for what my son and my wife had conspired to do. The project itself was both practical and uncomplicated. Of course, they needed me as the gopher, as in go for this and go for that. As it turned out, I will remember that beautiful morning for a long, long time. Our son came to help build a pair of tomato trellises, since we will share the eventual bounty with him and...

2010 ACWHCC ABLE Award of Excellence winners announced

  • May 25, 2010
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The Ashland County-West Holmes Career Center ABLE program has announced the winners of its annual Rita and Lisa Sayre ABLE Award of Excellence for 2010. The award is given to a student, instructor, or support staff member who best exemplifies the career efforts of Rita and Lisa Sayre in fulfilling the ideals of the ABLE program. This year’s winners of the ABLE Award of Excellence are: Jessica...

Career center criminal justice program students work private sports car race

  • May 25, 2010
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During the weekend of May 14-16, students in the criminal justice (CJ) program at Ashland County-West Holmes Career Center (ACWHCC) took to the race track as they worked a private sports car race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Raceway. Mid-Ohio Regional Porsche Clubs of America (MORPCA) was the race sponsor. This was the fourth year that ACWHCC’s CJ students have been invited to help with the race by...

Heroes close to home are top pick of local fifth-graders

  • May 25, 2010
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Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. For Laurel Mullet's fifth-grade reading students at Miller Avenue Elementary in Sugarcreek, most of them chose not a celebrity, but a hero close to home as their top pick. "We started this last year, as we wanted to do a writing activity about our heroes, and we made a class book," explained Mullet following a special heroes assembly held at the school on May...