Monday, February 23, 2026

Remember that high hornets' nest I wrote about in the Jan. 21 column? Old-timers believed the higher the hornets built their nests, the deeper...

In just a minute or two, the longest day of the year will dawn and summer will officially arrive.Someone had better tell Mother Nature,...

With the scary hurricanes and scary tornadoes and scary severe thunderstorms swirling all around us, we keep waiting for the other shoe to drop,...

They were such an unlikely pair, but pair they were. Playing together. Sleeping together. Eating together.They were Hamilton, 70 lovable pounds of boxer mix,...

Isn't it reassuring, in this scary world, to open the pages of Farm and Dairy especially in fair time and to see pictures of...

Just at twilight, the doe and her fawn tiptoe up the back fence line, their ears alert to any move I might make as...

To paraphrase the famous lines from Robert Burns' To a Mouse poem: The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. (If...

Awaiting my morning wake-up call -- Toby knows exactly when 8 a.m. comes -- my mind rambles, and on this morning I reflect on what my imagination can create. (What would we do without a good imagination? It can make or break your day.)

How could it possibly be the middle of July when it was spring just a moment ago and June was almost non-existent?Somehow, the...

If you’re not from the tri-county — Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana — area, you might not find this column of interest. On the other hand, if...