Yearly Archives: 2001
Finding right auctioneer: Property sales in heat of competition
Patrick Murphy, Web editor for the National Auctioneers Association, writes about how to go about looking for and choosing an auctioneer.
Finding collectible coins at auction
Auctioneer Stephen Schofield, of Effingham, N.H., says U.S. coins are fairly common items at many antique and estate auctions.
Exports are important, but they can’t solve current farm problem
Guest commentary by Willard Cochrane, chief agricultural economist to President John F. Kennedy and professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota, discusses the economics of farm exports.
Easter sunrise service held in Moravian tradition
An Easter sunrise service at the Schoenbrunn Village State Memorial at New Philadelphia, Ohio, will be patterned after the Moravian custom of gathering around the congregation cemetary at dawn on Easter.
Dargate broadcasts live sale on ‘Net
Dargate Auction Galleries made history March 17 as one of the first auction houses to broadcast a live sale over the Internet, and netting the highest winning Internet bid ever recorded by iCollector.
Dangers of hunting wild mushrooms
Lanny Rhodes, Ohio State University associate professor of plant pathology, warns that poisonous mushrooms can look similar to edible varieties, and that if people mistakenly eat a poisonous mushroom, they could become seriously ill, or even die.
Pennsylvania zeroes in on stray voltage
The stray voltage problems experienced in one Pennsylvania county has sent the state on a search for solutions.
Girls just wanna do good
A group of six professional, young mothers from the Petersburg and Boardman areas are revolutionizing the typical "girls' night out" by turning it into their "GNO for Good."
Baldwin faces animal cruelty charges
Harlan Baldwin of rural Ashtabula was charged March 30 with 49 counts of animal cruelty. The charges stem from a March 23 investigation by the Ashtabula County Humane Society of a barn Baldwin rented on a Sheffield Township farm.
Pool raiders want it stopped at home
In this week's commentary, Editor Susan Crowell coments on the ironic twist of California producers' milk being pooled in the Upper Midwest federal order.
