Yearly Archives: 2006
Herman Miller
COLUMBIANA, Ohio - Herman Miller had just turned 23, was starting the second year of his teaching career, and was dating the girl who would eventually become his wife.
Second chance
GROVE CITY, Pa. - Tony Nicoletto tells people they don't want to be like him. That's because most people like him aren't alive.
Putting a price tag on farm safety
LONDON, Ohio - A few extra minutes or a few extra dollars on a farm can be priceless and farmers are often reluctant to part with either.
Harvest brings back fond memories
Tragedy. The nerve-jarring news of any school tragedy is difficult to take in. But the horror in an Amish school house in a bucolic part of the world where violence is nonexistent proved to be more than we could grasp.
Really, you can’t make this stuff up
As fast as time usually passes, it seems to pick up even greater speed in the fall. Corn and soybeans, like maples' leaves, appear to turn golden one day, brown the next and, at least so to me, are gone the next.
Who Are You, And What Planet Are You From?
We settled on a bench across from the pond in Salem's Waterworth Park. Several varieties of ducks and geese floated leisurely across the water.
Keeping the spark – and the dark – in marriage
When I was a little girl, a common advertising icon was Reddy Kilowatt. He was an electrical sprite of undetermined origin who flittered about representing the magic of electricity.
Three counties get funding for flood damage
ORWELL, Ohio - Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake counties have been approved for implementation of the 2006 Environmental Conservation Program Flood.
The face of America’s migrant workers
Jeff Zellers once intended to go to law school, but in 1987 decided to join the family farm business established by his grandparents in the 1920s.
How do you say ‘see you next year’ in German?
READING, Pa. - Walking into the Sheraton Inn conference room designated for the National Grange German/USA Friendship Program was like walking into a family reunion.
