Opinion
Carnegie building houses many memories
Greene County residents are fortunate to have such a fine library system.Books of all sorts are available to check out or one can sit in a comfortable...
Why I voted for Amy Coney Barrett
This week, I was proud to vote to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to serve on the Supreme Court. She is an impressive person and a distinguished legal...
Tales of Xenia: Junior High day
Coming home from the YMCA recently I had a flashback when the song “Bad Girls” by Donna Summer came on the radio.This song is from about 1...
The modern Typhoid Mary threat
It seems to me that the learning curve associated with the coronavirus is extraordinarily steep, that is, we are discovering more and more about this ...
Ohio has history with presidents
The 2020 general election will soon be a memory.One hundred years ago the nation was recovering from the effects of WWI. There had been a worldwide pa...
Voting in America
We are currently engaged in an election that many have called historic, unprecedented, and one of the most important in the history of America. That g...
George T. Johnson, a true gentleman
It seems to me that we have a void, an emptiness, hereabouts with the recent death of George T. Johnson.You see, he was a true gentleman — a rar...
Shawnee had large settlement in Greene County
I am not sure what the Shawnee called this season of the year, but around here after the first frost it is known as “Indian Summer.”I don&...
A discussion of reparations
My cousin from Pittsburgh, a retired professor, invited me to a Zoom book discussion with a group he has been discussing books with for decades.The re...
You can’t keep a great festival down
It seems to me that on the list of festivals that have been canceled or otherwise crippled, the original Oktoberfest, to use the German spelling, must...
