Opinion
Summer maintenance in the garden
Flowering plants serve a number of purposes. A blossom’s nectar and pollen provides food to pollinators like bees, butterflies, beetles and bird...
Trust – where are you?
We have reached a time in our country when trust is nearly nonexistent.As a Pastor, from time to time, I will counsel married couples. Any problem can...
Keeping the arts alive
Darke County Endowment for the Arts recently announced recipients of the organization’s 2020 grant awards assisting projects promoting, strength...
A Vietnam Veteran remembers
Growing up in the Toledo area with one older sister and three younger brothers, Nicholas Essinger of Troy, Ohio, says, “We grew up during World ...
Buy mums for Garden Club fundraiser
The Arcanum Garden Club is holding a fall fundraiser. Garden Club members will be taking orders for Belgium mums from August 1 through August 13. Thes...
Hawk haven
On Tuesday, my wife and I adopted a hawk named Sky at the Shawnee Prairie Preserve and Nature Center in Greenville.Sky is a rescue bird paired with a ...
Readying for next chapter in life
Well, this is it. No more weekly columns coming from me.Who knows what the future will hold. I will just live for the moment.It’s been great doi...
The Pre-Tribulation Rapture
We are just past the halfway point of 2020, and if nothing else happened this year, it would still go down as one of the strangest years in history. T...
Something’s happening here
Due to what is unfortunately happening around the community, the state, the nation, and the world, 2020 has been a year of things not happening. Conce...
Advice from a self-published author
Almost 20 years ago, author Terry Pellman of Sidney, Ohio, retired early from his role as a social services administrator. He reports, “My healt...
