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Don’t let association sports die
Lee White, director of the Chester Presbyterian basketball league, which has more than 400 participants in Chester and Enon, has reached a crossroads. He has been volunteering as the organizer for the league for a number of years.
READ MORERick Gray
We must think anew
When I was a first-year student at the University of Virginia, my faculty adviser – a wise and wizened leprechaun named Marcus Mallett – put me into a class entitled HIUS 109: US History from 1789 to 1815.
READ MORECharlie Todd
Three old guys on a lark
The three of us are octogenarians now. Ben suggested a trip to Bald Head Island, N.C., and Ed and I agreed, since Ben’s son-in-law owns a cottage there and the price was right. We could go for a few nights or a week.
READ MORERep. Randy Forbes
America's choice
When taken together, these events naturally paint a discouraging picture of America’s future. In the face of these events, there is a tendency for many people across the country to begin to think that America’s best days are behind us. And no matter what the circumstances, there are always those individuals who genuinely do not believe that America is exceptional or great.
READ MOREDr. Robert Owens
Restoring honor
To say that climbing on a bus with 50 strangers to join a caravan of hundreds of other buses jostling our way up the yellow-brick road to Oz put this historian out of his comfort zone would not be an understatement; it would be a gross understatement.
READ MORELt. Pete Hypes
Why are we responding to this call?
The other day, I had the privilege of working with a couple of young firefighters at another station. It has become the norm to go to a station and find the combined years of experience to be less than the years of service of a senior firefighter with 20 or more years on the job.
READ MORERise and Shine in the Dogpound
Max is a true worker
Hello and welcome back to the labor-intensive Dogpound community. It is Labor Day, when most of us get to rest from going to work five days a week, and in exchange we get the opportunity to work on our other job, which is generally referred to as “honey do’s.”
READ MOREDr. Todd Reynolds
Salmonella
The recent salmonella infections from contaminated eggs have caused concern across the nation. Salmonella are bacteria that cause diarrhea illness in humans. They were discovered by American scientist Dr. Daniel E. Salmon over 100 years ago.
READ MOREGardening With Gita
The summer of 2010 in review
Despite the fact that we had to deal with unbearable heat this summer, the fact that it’s coming to an end and we are transitioning into the fall is inspiring an unsettling feeling, a feeling to which perhaps only a gardener can relate.
READ MOREGena Lashley
Where’d the summer go?
The summer is coming to an end and just like that another school year begins. This summer has gone by especially fast; I feel like yesterday was Memorial Day and now here, we are again, waiting for the tax-free weekend and the before-school sales. No matter how short this summer seems to have been, we Lashleys have had a ball. Maybe it has gone by so quickly because we are constantly doing something.
READ MOREAnthony Barnes
Exercising but still gaining weight
I’ve been exercising for weeks, but my scale says I am heavier. This is very discouraging. Am I doing something wrong?
READ MOREJohn Hall
If not sport, certainly athleticism
For many of you, I apologize in advance. This is after all a sports column and ballet, in and of itself, may not be sport. It is, however, a very serious athletic endeavor. Twenty years ago, I went kicking and screaming to my first ballet performance. I admit it was made easier by the fact that my daughter was cast as “a little mouse” in Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, but only a tad easier.
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