I took off for a month this fall to chase grouse around the northern tier of Wisconsin. After missing out on an entire hunting season last fall because of ill health, I was ready to make up for lost time. So ready that I forgot to account for the fact that I’m 60 years old. I scheduled a ...
The news was shocking and sad. A cyclist was killed and her husband seriously injured when a boulder rolled onto the Great Allegheny Passage trail near Connellsville and landed on them. Drone shots from the aftermath show the trail blocked by debris that slid down the steep wall that ...
In honor of our seventh annual Seesaw Marathon Fundraiser (Friday, Oct. 30, at 4 p.m. to Oct. 31 at 4 p.m.), I asked the teens at our Common Ground Teen Center to share their thoughts about their center. Please help keep our center going – you may donate at ...
Call me a late adopter. I've never been one to jump on trends super early and especially not one to be a trendsetter. This means that when everyone is chomping at the bit to break out their shorts and flip flops in March, I am still wearing jeans and boots and jackets until the end of April ...
In the WPIAL, there are four parts to a season in every team sport. First, there is the offseason, which leads to the regular season and then the postseason. The fourth season is the clinching season, which overlaps with the final two weeks of the regular season. It’s the time of year when ...
A few weeks back I wrote that my co-habitant and I were about to embark on a weeklong Caribbean cruise aboard the Margaritaville-at-Sea (MAS) Islander. It never occurred to me that someone from MAS might read that column, but just before we left I received an email from Maria Hayworth, ...
