The scholastic and collegiate wrestling season is fast approaching and our sons and daughters in Warren County will soon begin training. Participant numbers for wrestling at middle-high schools in Warren County and across northwest Pennsylvania are in continual decline. This decrease in the ...

’Tis the season for giving thanks. This holiday that we know as Thanksgiving was first designated by President George Washington as a day of national thanksgiving. Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave it the fourth Thursday in November date. I think this goes back to our roots as a nation. We ...

The shiny blue pig is covered with pink flowers. It sits on the bureau below our wall-mounted television. And it eats pennies. Actually, this is blue pig No. 2. Number one suffered a sudden, untimely death. I bought the china piggybank when our grandson Malcolm was two, I thought it would ...

Most communities had at least one corner store. When I grew up there were three corner stores along the way as I walked to school. The one we frequented most was owned by the Denglers. He had groceries as well as some paper products. The thing that I remember most about this little store is ...

This past Sunday was terrific. I attended a mini-reunion of fellow employees from a design firm where I worked during the eighties. Together, we built custom kitchens, baths, and family rooms. Sunday, eleven of us lunched, laughed, and shared old stories. It was like we had never left, except ...

Lately it seems like Facebook has been flooded with various devices that make music or at least play music. Although I have not experienced all of them, I had some of them. Let’s start with the earliest device I remember. I had a Victrola. I had a lot of 78 rpm records to play on it. The ...