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Creating creature comforts for the creatures
Having reached adequate comfort for the pioneer family with the creation of the barnhouse, it was time to work on creature comforts for the livestock.
Count your blessings in disguise
Life is not the way it’s supposed to be, it’s the way it is. The way we cope with it is what makes the difference. — Virginia Satir There’s a joke going around the Internet that in a year with record recession and pure financial devastation for too many (one is too many), in a
Is an adult child responsible for a parent’s nursing home costs?
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Can an adult be held responsible for a parent’s medical bills? In Pennsylvania, the answer is yes, according to a dramatic new ruling by the Pennsylvania Superior Court explained by elder law expert Katherine Pearson at Penn State Law in this recent interview. “Pennsylvania’s law obligating certain family members to care
HSUS now ranked lower than PETA
WASHINGTON — The nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom pointed to a newly downgraded rating from Charity Navigator as evidence that the Humane Society of the United States is not adequately fulfilling its stated charitable purpose. Charity Navigator slashed the rankings for Humane Society of the United States and the Humane Society International, the international arm
CoBank committing $10 billion to get rural development fund off the ground
The Obama administration is hoping a new rural development fund will lure new investors and investments in rural regions.
LETTER: To the voters of United School District
Editor: Well, it’s almost time to vote on the new school project. We have been given the opportunity to learn the facts on the bond issue. I hope you took advantage of them. Are you ready to put this district into more debt for the next three and a half decades? This means you and
Strawberry plant is one in a million
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Five Aces Breeding owner Harry Swartz spent 30 years traveling the world on a quest to find the perfect strawberry plant.
Versatile has come a long way — in price and size
Sometime around 1941, the Moore & Townsend partnership (my father and my uncle) bought a used Farmall F-30 tractor to replace an old McCormick-Deering 10-20. That F-30, with a 3-bottom John Deere plow, was a big tractor in our part of western Beaver County, Pa. Well, I was at the Canfield Fair recently and Witmer’s
Pool raiders grab $63 million from F.O. 33 farmers
Since June of 2000, 4.1 billion pounds of “producer milk not historically associated with F.O. 33” has been pooled on the order – but less than 3 percent was actually delivered to F.O. 33.
A coal camp Christmas
Second place: Alex Keck, 17, of Hanoverton, Ohio It was early December of 1933, the height of the Great Depression in the tiny Pennsylvania coal mining town of Dunbar. The rows of company houses coated with black coal dust cast a bleak silhouette against the cold gray sky. Ida was 9-years-old and she along her
