The feel-good story of the winter has long-term potential as a model for our region. There was a whirlwind of activity “behind the scenes” as it were, during the week of Nov. 15 in Lake Placid. It all started with a phone call on a Tuesday afternoon from a local media contact with an ...
My recent column about William & Mary’s new $48 million School of Education edifice, which is equipped with the latest technological innovations, caught the eye of William Van Wishard, the head of WorldTrend Research, a Washington-based consultancy that specializes in analysis and ...
There will be a Zumbathon Fundraiser, which was organized by zumba instructor Chrissy (Depo) Brown to benefit Luke Randy Garcia, son of Chad and Marla (Perkins) Garcia who has been diagnosed with congenital mitral stenosis. There will be a $10 admission charge. The event will include15 zumba ...
Who was it that said “The more things change, the more they remain the same”? For example. Have you heard about the Super Tasters who are currently in the news? Super Tasters have more taste buds than other people. At the other end of the scale are the Non Tasters. These folks have few if ...
I went to Berlin last week at the encouragement of Dr. Arnt Gerstenberger, a dentist, who suffered serve burns on his right hand and, while going through seven operations and consequential levels of pain he had heretofore thought not possible, and while at times bored out of his mind in his ...
Hello everybody, here are some of the things going on in and around Wilmington… Remember in the movies when the cavalry used to arrive on the scene just in the nick of time? The day would be saved and the people who had a problem couldn’t even remember what the problem had been. Such ...
Rudolf Margolius, deputy minister of foreign trade of the Czechoslovak Republic, just as Capt. Edmond Dantes, the protagonists in Alexandre Dumas historic novel, “The Count of Monte Cristo,” found himself imprisoned for the “crime” of knowing too much. Reading the Washington Post ...
Have you ever seen a television commercial for the sleep aid Luna Siesta? A giant, day-glo green moth floats over a sleeping city, enters a restless young woman’s bedroom window and drugs her to sleep with the dreamy slow-motion wafting of its wings. This scene is supposed to be soothing, I ...
“What do American’s think about Egypt?” asked Abdalla, a Jordanian man who was my seatmate on a Lufthansa flight from Frankfort to Berlin. “Do they understand that these protests are not led by religion, but by the people? Do they understand how much courage it takes for them to protest ...
House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, (R-Va.) was in Williamsburg to keynote the Charter Day exercises, the 318th anniversary of the granting of the Royal Charter to the College of William and Mary. His selection for this distinction was partly due for his meteoric rise in the firmament of ...
The fundraiser for Roy Ano will be held at the American Legion Post 504 in AuSable Forks on Saturday, Feb. 12 from 1 to 6 p.m. A Michigan meal will be served and will include two Michigans, salad, beans and dessert for an $8 donation. Take outs will be available and you may place your order the ...
Last week a news brief on the car radio caught my attention. The Utah State Legislature was considering designating the Browning M1911 semi-automatic pistol its state gun. What? I couldn’t believe I’d heard correctly. In Arizona, a gunman had just gone on a murderous shooting spree with a ...
This is a story a thousand years old. But after centuries of laying dormant, it has come alive. According to a William & Mary website, the Camino de Santiago, or the Way of Saint James, is a spiritual journey that pilgrims of all faiths and background have traversed for a thousand years. ...
Plans for the fundraiser for Roy Ano to be held at the American Legion Post 504 in AuSable Forks on Feb. 12 from 1 to 6 p.m are proceeding full speed ahead. Roy, an AuSable Forks native, son of Harry and the late Vada Ano, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and is presently hospitalized ...
Hello everybody, here’s a taste of what’s happening in Wilmington. As you have probably heard, the town’s chief financial officer Shirley Lawrence will be leaving her post in the near future. If you are looking to meet our town’s new financial officer, Nicole Forbes, go to the town ...
What do you worry about? 1. Male pattern baldness 2. Birthplace of Bobby Jindal 3. Influence of newfangled technology on our young people 4. Birthplace of Bobby Jindal 5. Religion of President Obama 6. Amy Winehouse 7. Why was Oprah’s sister given up for adoption? 8. Gum disease 9. ...
The Olympic complex was filled with good hockey this past weekend as high school teams from across the United States and Canada came together to play in the 32nd annual Northwood Invitational Hockey Tournament. The tournament featured 20 teams in the Junior and Midget Boys’ Division, 12 teams ...
Jason Lester Atkins, born in Hampton, Va. was gunner on a torpedo bomber during World War II. Then for 40 years he served as an executive with the giant A. O. N. Corporation. In the meantime he became also a published poet. “In 1995, I wrote a series of ‘prose-poems’ to remember the ...
Roy Ano, a native of AuSable Forks, son of Harry and the late Vada Ano was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and has been hospitalized at Fletcher Allen Health Care Hospital in Vermont. He is currently receiving an extremely aggressive course of chemotherapy and will remain there for a ...
Biff friended me on facebook yesterday. I must say I was surprised. The fact is, Biff and I have never actually been friends, although we used to date, years ago. The last time I saw Biff, he and his wife Rachel were shopping at a Wal-Mart Super Store where I was buying Halloween candy. Biff ...