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Keeping life simple

Life seems to be so complex today. Was it always this way and I was so busy I didn’t have time to notice? Does it really rain more? Is it hotter, colder, drier or wetter than it was in the past? We live in a time when every storm and perhaps even every snowflake is captured on film. Years ...

Dunbar Creek a special place; Comments needed

Dunbar Creek sort of hides itself nearby. Except for a short span upstream from the town of Dunbar, it rarely flows within plain sight of a road. Its lower reaches slide through a shallow gorge east and out of view of Rte. 119, secretly entering the Youghiogheny River above Connellsville. ...

Don’t look for Urban Meyer to lose his job

The recent news that has come out of Columbus, Ohio in recent weeks about the domestic abuse issues concerning a former Ohio State assistant football coach has been troubling.What may be more troubling is how most of the Ohio State football fandom has stood behind its coach, Urban Meyer, simply ...

Is there more to the WWE/Fox deal?

While Smackdown will not start on Fox until October 2019, could there be more to come between the two?When Fox signed the deal with WWE, it ended negotiations with the UFC and will be losing all UFC programming in the near future.With Fox also having its FS1 and FS2 channels, it will have ...

America’s first weather forecaster

We all know the story of Ben Franklin and his kite. In addition to his experiment with electricity, he also kept a record of the weather. Since he traveled often and for long periods of time, his weather data did not have much consistency.Thomas Jefferson on the other hand grew up with an ...

On the cusp of best time of year

With August now upon us, there are several ways to look at the near future.For school students and teachers, their school years are right around the corner.As for the travelers who love hitting the beaches before the weather starts changing, their windows are closing.But for those who love ...