There is an unusual show at the Gallery on High this month, flowers so colorful you can almost smell the fragrance. Kay Majka paints a lot of different subjects but her love for flowers really comes through in each of her paintings. I have known Kay and her husband for more than a few years. [...]
Green has a history of meaning. Green is growing. As I look out my window this morning my grass is turning from a light shade of brown to a rich green. The tree buds are coming out and they are a light green. So many people over the years have identified green as a color [...]
I use a lot of Chap Stick during the winter months. My wife thinks I am “addicted” to the stuff because I use it so much. Nearly every time she sees me I am putting Chap Stick on my lips. Such a charge is unfair because the only time I use it is during the [...]
It’s Easter. It’s hard to believe there are just two more months of school before summer break (especially hard to believe when a little snow’s been flying nearly every day). Old Man Winter is especially stubborn this year. This time every year we emerge from the “other side” of winter into more daylight and warmer [...]
By Chris Miles Sports Editor The 2013 high school spring sports season is still a couple weeks from starting, but a pair of Madison County track and field athletes are going strong in their winter sport of choice. London’s Kali Boyd and Madison-Plains’ Anne Brady both qualified for and will compete in the Division [...]
CLEVELAND (AP) — An airport spokeswoman says a United flight landing in Cleveland from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., slid off a slick runway onto a grassy area amid freezing winter weather. No injuries were reported in the incident Friday morning. Spokeswoman Jackie Mayo with Cleveland Hopkins International Airport says two busloads of passengers were taken from [...]
It’s February. It’s mostly cold and gray and I dislike the gray days the most even over the cold. I must be part plant because the lack of strong sunlight affects my total being. Maybe I should have been a bear so I could sleep through these cold, dark months of winter. Actually, in a [...]
By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — With scant snowfall and barren ski slopes in parts of the Midwest and Northeast the past couple of years, some scientists have pointed to global warming as the culprit. Then when a whopper of a blizzard smacked the Northeast with more than 2 feet of snow in some places [...]
