Monthly Archives: October 2008
The grain market hemorrhage continues
The market used to be bleeding lower. The bleeding became a massive hemorrhage yesterday, Oct. 6, on the Chicago Board of Trade as the...
Farm country rides economic wave
Remember the 1992 presidential campaign that pitted Bill Clinton against Bush the Elder? It gave us that wonderfully pithy saying, "It's the economy, stupid!"
Strength through faith endures all
To describe my dear friend Karen as strong seems an understatement of epic proportions. Karen, who has made a career of helping others to...
Farm profits fell faster than Wall Street
When Wall Street stumbled, futures markets hit the floor.
A weekly roundup of 4-H news for the week of Oct. 9, 2008
ROCHESTER, Pa. — The Big Knob 4-H Livestock Club will hold a meeting Oct. 13 at 7 p.m. in the Big Knob Grange Hall...
A weekly roundup of FFA news for the week of Oct. 9, 2008
ASHLAND, Ohio — The Crestview FFA participated in the 2008 Richland County Soils contest in Plymouth Sept. 16. Crestview won first place in both...
Parenting for dummies
I normally make it a hard and fast rule not to make fun of other writers. I mean, it's hard, this writing gig, and...
Suspect fires claim barns in Columbiana County
Two Oct. 2 barn fires are the latest in a string of suspicious fires across southeastern Columbiana County; locals are crying arson.
Kenneth G. Moore
GEORGETOWN, Pa. -- Kenneth G. Moore, 73, died July 8, 2008, at the Medical Center of Beaver after a brief illness.He was born July...
Donald J. Moore
CALCUTTA, Ohio -- Donald J. Moore, 63, formerly of Georgetown, Pa., died Sept. 22, 2008, at Calcutta Health Care Center following a brief illness.He...
