The Way I See It Art Smith One of the biggest battles of the cold war with the Soviet Union occurred not on the battlefield but on the ice of a smallish hockey rink in the quiet village of Lake Placid, New York. Forty-six years ago, a group of young men, the youngest ever sent to the ...
Viewpoint Dan McKenzie Injection wells have been a hot topic in Marietta lately. Fear-mongering, misinformation, and straight-up lies have been vomited by environmental activist groups such as Earthjustice and Buckeye Environmental Network (BEN). They want you to believe that they are protecting the water, but deep down, they know that injection wells are too far away from drinking water supplies to pose any risk of contamination. The truth is, these environmental activists despise the mining industry, and they see injection wells as an opportunity to take down the whole operation. ...
Early Marietta David B. Baker I was struck by comments of the 2026 Winter Olympics gold medalists. Their greatest emotional reaction came not at the moment of victory, but upon hearing the National Anthem played at the medal ceremony. It’s then that Olympic medalists experience pride, ...
By Mark Wilmoth On a cool July night in 2010, 3-year-old David Lew and some family members found themselves stranded on the bank of the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Wyoming when their boat’s motor failed. Lew’s father and uncle radioed for help, but a storm blew in while the sheriff’s office was responding to their distress call. On the journey back to the marina, Deputy Jeff Sheaman noticed that little David had lost consciousness because he was so cold. Sheaman pulled the little boy onto his lap, opened his own coat and then wrapped David against his body for warmth. David was ...
Viewpoint By Kiki Angelos I told you before, I only write on the Parent page once a month, and it seems like the days fly by so fast. As we all know, children are so important in our lives. When a couple is united in marriage, what is the first priority on their agenda? To have a little baby. And some have one, two or three more, and I call them blessings. Those little angels don’t stay babies very long, nor toddlers. Before we know it, they start going to school, they become adults, they get married and they have children of their own. At this point, your family multiplies, but ...
MOV Climate Corner By Randi Pokladnik I was born in 1955, at a time when the USA was entering a new age of technology characterized by the dawn of computing, and when we were first attempting to get a satellite into orbit. This was accomplished in 1958, and in 1961 President John F. Kennedy announced the initiative to put a man on the moon before the decade was out. Like a lot of kids in the 1960s, this convinced me that I wanted to be an astronaut. My grandma gave me my first telescope when I was in fourth grade. Back then, Americans were glued to our black and white TVs watching each ...
