Saturday, December 27, 2025

Yearly Archives: 2007

CARROLLTON, Ohio - The message from Carroll County residents rang loud and clear Aug. 27: Don't close our FSA office.

RANDOLPH, Ohio - One of the Portage County 4-H clubs is called the "Everything Under the Sun" club. And that just about sums up the animals that parade across the auction block during the annual

Editor: I would like to renounce the rumors that seem to be abounding in the area about the Rogers sale.

Editor: It was interesting to read Jerome K. Stephens' letter concerning DDT and Rachel Carson (With DDT use, comes resistant insects, July 5, 2007).

Editor: The formation of Gov. Strickland's Ohio Food Policy Advisory Council ("Council formed to establish, enhance Ohio food policies," Aug.

Back-to-school shopping is a piece of cake with my 16-year-old son, Jon. We don't shop. And I love it.

Yesterday, as I was driving to buy groceries and fill up the gas tank on my car, I couldn't help but notice the bumper sticker on the pick-up truck ahead of me.

Some of the sagest advice my father ever offered my brothers and me urged us not to "hit back at bullies" because, sooner or later, "They'll get theirs.

"You just can't imagine what loneliness is," Dad confessed quietly as he eased his way off our deck that has needed new steps since we moved in (has it really been 13 years?).

It seems to me to be patently unfair that firsts get all the fanfare - first step, first love, first kiss.