One name stands out on this year’s list from the Warren County Veterans Affairs Office. Richard Sharrow, a Marienville, Pa., native who served in both the Army and the Navy, is identified as “MIA 7/25/1059. Brought Home 9/23/23.” According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency ...
Lucille Ball died on April 26, 1989 due to complications from a heart surgery. I knew the “I Love Lucy” megastar was born in Celeron and buried in Lakewood. What I didn't know was that there was some controversy to bring that burial about. According to an article in the New York ...
“KENT, Ohio (AP) - Four students were shot to death and 11 other persons wounded, four seriously in a confrontation with Ohio National Guardsmen and police at Kent State University.” That was the lede in a small article published midway down the front page on May 5, 1970 in the Warren ...
One of the leading tire brands in the world is BFGoodrich. Diamond Tires - the firm I wrote about last week - sold to B.F. Goodrich for $45 million. The actual B.F. Goodrich? He’s from Chautauqua County. But, ironically, he would have died before the company bearing his name ever ...
The average price of gas in 1918 was $.25 cents a gallon. Woodrow Wilson was president and World War I was coming to a conclusion. The Ford Model T was still the most popular car, presumably in black. And Marshall Parshall was selling Diamond Tires in Warren. Given all the talk of the ...
There are times when I have to write these stories knowing that I don’t, in fact, have the rest of the story. But a Warren-native that rose to the rank of Lieutenant General in the U.S. Air Force and then worked in the administration at NASA as part of the Office of Manned Space Flight ...
