Monthly Archives: September 2010
Let me call you sweetheart
Recently, our local newspaper featured a letter to the editor from a reader irate not about the war, economy, unbearably hot weather, unsafe eggs...
Ag Expo is Sept. 11 at McClester Farm
MECHANICSTOWN, Ohio -- Mahoning, and Stark SWCD offices are working together to present the fourth annual Agriculture-Natural Resource-Conservation Expo. The expo offers free parking,...
Ohio dairy farmer wins national honor
Ohio Holstein breeder Bill Ramsey will receive Dairy Shrine breeder award at World Dairy Expo.
Vacation with us…Despetorich
When Dolores Despetorich of Pulaski, Pa., and Agnes Wyitz took a trip to Paris they knew there were essentials one needed for international travel....
Past is new again in reprinted book
“For although he was insatiably a farmer and his father and grandfathers and great-grandfathers had been Owen County farmers, he did not live on...
Animal industry considered “acceptable collateral damage”
Editor:As an animal owner I was completely stunned on June 30 with the announcement of the "agreement" between Gov. Strickland, OFBF/Commodity Leaders and HSUS.In...
The Russell & Company put Massillon on the map
For many years I've planned to spend some time at the Massillon Museum and the Massillon Public Library to try to do a story...
Is summer really coming to an end?
Just at twilight, the doe and her fawn tiptoe up the back fence line, their ears alert to any move I might make as...
Fall webworms aren’t really cause for alarm
Roger Patterson of southwestern Pennsylvania, writes, "Late this summer I have noticed what appear to be tent caterpillar tents in my lilac bushes. I'm...
Keep an eye on $40 billion potash pie
American farmers hardly noticed when, in mid-August, news broke that Australian-based BHP Billiton was willing to pay nearly $40 billion for the world's largest...
