Honoring county’s Medal of Honor recipients
Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part series on the five Delaware County Medal of Honor recipients. Two of the recipients were...
GRBs are most violent explosions in universe
Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part series on gamma-ray bursts.They last for but a second or two. For that brief instant,...
Frances makes grand debut at Stratford
Last month, I shared that the vista at Stratford Ecological Center on Liberty Road was green, green, green; this month, I can add that...
County home to 5 Medal of Honor recipients
Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part series on Delaware County Medal of Honor recipients.The last Wednesday of each month, Vietnam Veterans...
Astronomers: ‘We were here; This is who we were’
Last week, I told the story of my first view of the globular cluster M13 in a large telescope that I had built myself.I...
Settlement reached in bullying lawsuit
“This lawsuit has at least allowed them, in the limited way lawsuits can do, to honor Gabe by trying to help the next kid.”—...
Mysterious history of the US flag
When the American Revolution broke out in 1775, the colonists didn’t yet unite under a single flag. Instead, they fought mainly under unit or...
Catalpa — the ultimate fence post?
Have you ever heard of a “fence-post tree”? Also known as Indian bean tree, cigar tree, catawba, or caterpillar tree, Catalpa is a large...
Prometheus’ ‘First Light’ will never be forgotten
While I was in graduate school, my mind was not entirely devoted to literary studies, I am embarrassed to say. I built a series...
Library can be good resource for job seekers
This past week, the Delaware County District Library expanded or brought back many of our services that had been put on hold or limited...