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Profanity in scholastic sports

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Today, we have a serious problem in all high school sports. And that growing predicament is athlete profanity. Who is responsible for such inappropriate behavior? That’s easy; every adult who is involved directly or indirectly with sports – the parents. the coaches, the officials, the event organizers and even the school administrators. After watching people play the new “blame game” on various news media topics, I think I have a pretty good handle on what is a contributing factor regarding the profanity problem. Today, if something happens that doesn’t go one’s way, it ...

60th Wedding Anniversary

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Neil and Connie Huck will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on Thursday, January 16. They were married on January 16, 1965 at St. Bernard Catholic Church, Beverly, OH by the Right Reverend Ambrose Schilling. They are the proud parents of six children. Tamara Haring (friend Darrell ...

Wm H. Styer, Prescription Druggist

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Mariettan Ross Thomas showed me an old apothecary bottle and said, “See what you can find out about it.” The quart-size glass bottle has a cork and a label: “Wm H. Styer, Prescription Druggist, 240 Front Street, Marietta, Ohio.” Collecting old bottles is popular. There is a ...

Aiming for your goals and becoming the best version of yourself

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Matt Emmons was leading the 3-position shooting competition in the 2014 Summer Olympic Games when he accidentally cross-fired, hitting the wrong target on his final shot. Although Emmons had nailed the bullseye, he scored a zero and finished 8th in the competition because he hit another shooter’s target. You should aim for your own goals. In the late 1960s, college football wasn’t very integrated. When Ernest Cook was offered a football scholarship to Florida State University, threats were made about what would happen if the Black man came to Tallahassee to play. Frightened, Cook ...

Winter floods must have been miserable

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Flooding in Marietta is nothing new, Marietta has been going under water from time to time as long as people have lived here. When those from the Ohio Company first selected the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers as the place to build a new city it would have seemed they would have had to be aware that from time-to-time the whole town would be covered by several feet of churning brown muck that would certainly make everyone wish they had located on higher ground. They had gotten advice from Thomas Hutchins, geographer of the United States, that the river banks in the area ...

The meaning of integrity

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Our word “integrity” comes to us from Latin. Originally a military term, the word was used during the daily inspection of troops in the Roman Empire. As each soldier was examined, he soundly thumped his left breast with his right fist, demonstrating that his armor was intact and that he was ready for service. As the soldier struck his breast, he shouted “integritas,” meaning “whole, complete or entire.” For 400 years, the system worked and Rome dominated the world. Over time, however, the army faced fewer threats and soldiers grew lazy. Drills were abandoned, and soldiers ...