Response to Dr. Banziger

June 20, 2023

I read Dr. Banziger’s latest rail against the oil and gas industry over the weekend, and I’m calling BS. For years he has accused the oil and gas industry of causing every malady known to man while comfortably living off all the products and energy oil and gas provide. This week he was “saving” the Ohio state park flora and fauna from this evil intrusion. Has he ever stopped to think that without oil and gas, those public forests would not exist? They would have been neutered and burned for heat. Without fertilizer or fuel for mechanized farming, these areas would be required ...

Thank you for catfish tournament support

June 16, 2023

Little Muskingum Grange #2621 wishes to thank the sponsors of their Third annual catfish tournament and other events of the grange. The grange, founded in 1867, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, fraternal organization that advocates for rural America and agriculture. The grange has a strong history in grassroots activism, family value, patriotism, leadership, and community service. The Grange has been building rural and small-town America for over 150 years! Some of our community service projects are, but not limited to, repairing the Sitka Church, working at the Waterford Fair in their ...

Revisiting tobacco road

June 8, 2023

Looking into a rear-view, will hype for legalized marijuana (cannabis) and even fentanyl (which can be fatal even from exposure) follow the path of tobacco? After all tobacco was touted as cure for all of our neuroses, real or imagined, as well as being a fashion statement. After all smoke filled room looked so enticing let alone skillful blowing of smoke rings, as evidenced in the movies in silver screen. Will today’s cries for drug proliferation, with greater access to drug purchases on social media. Our children are at risk! Drugs of choice today include not only Marijuana, ...

Timing

June 3, 2023

What you say and how you say it matters. To respond to a precarious situation, one needs to engage one’s brain, not just offer the first thing that comes to mind. It was a glorious May in 1962. My husband Melvin was on an assignment from Marbon Chemical Company of his employment. He was attending a seminar as a representative engineer for Pilot Plant. Because it was a week’s assignment, he was encouraged to bring his wife. Detroit sounded like an exciting place to visit so I agreed to go with him. We were in downtown Detroit by 7:30 a.m. I made some mental notes of the ...

Pave the roads

May 27, 2023

To Lower Salem Township trustees: I am very upset with the way the roads are taken care of in your township. Not only have you not cleaned out the ditches, but you also have not made the road able to drain in major rain and flooding. I am well aware that you have had the residents in your township come to meetings and plead with you to take care of their roads. I went down to Long Run Road on 5/12/2023 to see my parents who live there. Since LAST SUMMER when there was a flood the road has not been fixed. There is no drainage on the road. The water runs down the road and makes huge ...

Loyalty

May 25, 2023

Past and present seem to co-exist. At times, we are reminded of something distant past by present circumstances. As I was listening to the News of the Day, there was discussion about loyalty. It immediately spurred me to think of a play I had seen many years ago, while we lived in PD (Displaced Persons) camp in Northern Germany. Many evening we saw plays presented by the camp residence. No, they were not performances by professional movie Stars. These plays were performed by DP Camp residents. Performers were rather talented. The scripts were brought from the country we had fled. We fled ...