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Nurse practitioner Angela Ball is part of Memorial Health System’s Department of Surgical Oncology, where she specializes in supporting patients with high-risk breast conditions. She provides education, guidance and personalized care for those navigating breast cancer risk, benign breast lesions and overall breast health. What does it mean to be “high risk” for breast cancer? Being “high risk” for breast cancer means having a significantly elevated probability of developing breast cancer compared to the general population based on clinical risk models (such as a high GAIL ...

Letter off-base on local residents, risks

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A recent letter titled “Ohio Oil and Gas Under Attack by California Funded Leftists from Athens County,” is misleading and dismissive of the citizens of this area. Had the author done even the most basic background work, he would know the headline is untrue. For the past three years, Washington County residents have held multiple town halls on the issue of injection wells. I have attended these meetings — yet not once have I seen the author there. Nor have we seen our local elected officials, including state Sen. Brian Chavez, who continues to refuse to answer even the most basic ...

Antietam

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September 16, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland: “There was a drizzling rain...the night was dismal. Nothing can be more solemn than a period of silent waiting for the summons to battle...,” recalls Mariettan Major Rufus R. Dawes, second in command of the Union Army Wisconsin 6th Volunteer ...

America’s greatest secret weapon

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Our grandson is a U.S. Marine. This week I told him about his great-grandfather, my dad, who was a proud U.S. Marine. Dad and other Marines I know are Marines, even if they aren’t currently serving. When the “The Marines’ Hymn” – “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli” – was played, Dad stood up and sang. Dad fought in the Pacific in World War II. He never talked about combat. Once in a while something slipped out, like when they were landing on Tarawa. The Marines came in on landing boats that couldn’t make it all the way to the beach. They waded ...

Climate change, extreme weather, and insurance companies

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We are homeowners whose entire neighborhoods have been destroyed by fires and we’re fighting our insurance companies while continuing to pay rate hike after rate hike. We are small business owners who have lost our stores, our restaurants, to the way we pay our bills for flooding. These are samples of quotes from victims of extreme weather events who have survived floods, fires, droughts, extreme heat, deadly air pollution, superstorms and more. Extreme weather events are becoming more commonplace in recent years given the undeniable scientific evidence of climate change, which has ...

It happened here: Historical markers explain the past

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We live in an area rich in history. History that is, in many cases, explained with historical markers placed to help you understand what you are standing in front of, next to, or in some cases on top of. There are hundreds of them in the area — along the streets, attached to buildings, ...