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Geiss family gets close to nature on relaxing beach vacation
For over 20 years, Julie Geiss’ family members have migrated back to the North Carolina coastline like birds of the same feather.
When the news breaks
Kymberly Foster Seabolt ponders how news is being delivered these days, warning readers that social media is not a reliable replacement for journalism.
Adulthood is not for sissies
Being an adult is like folding fitted sheets. No one really knows how.
Live and learn
If my kids complain about homework — “We aren’t ever going to need to know this in real life!” — I have three words for them: Dewey Decimal System. I remember standing at the card catalog, sweaty palm clasping the nub of a golf pencil and a piece of scrap paper that still smelled faintly
Farm Kings: Reality TV comes to a Pennsylvania farm to see real drama
VALENCIA, Pa. — Lights. Camera. Action. That’s what happens when actors and actresses are trying to create a movie. But what happens when you turn the lights on and point a camera toward a farming family? Life That’s how they describe it and that’s how the King family wants it. Logistics Farm Kings is a reality television
Spangler Candy Co.: Sweet part of Ohio agriculture
Since 1906, Spangler has been buying U.S. corn and sugar to make candy in Bryan, Ohio.
Things that nag in the night
As we head into the heart of the haunting season, I have a confession to make. As if my life weren’t colorful enough, I live in a haunted house. I know you’re jealous. Our house is 106 years old. Everyone knows that any building more than 100 years old is required, by after-life law, to
Bee pastures would help meet need for pollinators for orchards and fields
WASHINGTON — Beautiful wildflowers, perhaps as alluring to bees as they are to people, might someday be planted in “bee pastures.” These floral havens would be created to help propagate larger generations of healthy, hard-working bees. Pesticide-free bee pastures can be “simple to establish and — at perhaps only a half-acre each — easy to
A roundup of FFA news for the week of Jan. 21, 2010
ALBANY, Ohio — The Alexander FFA chapter is working on completing SAE record books, filling out State and American Degree applications and Proficiency Award applications. Several members are preparing themselves for upcoming Career Development Events competitions. * * * BELOIT, Ohio — West Branch FFA took part in raising money for the Baker family by
But wait! There’s not more
Remember when the news was newsworthy? News, of course, is anything you learn that you didn’t know before. Using that definition almost anything is technically “news” if it’s new to you. Researchers at Georgetown University, for example, found that caterpillars can “shoot” their feces a distance of 40 times their body length. See there? News!
