Opinion

Young trees need attention in fall
If you have a home orchard, this is the time of year to start protecting young fruit trees from deer damage. Landscape trees like crabapple, weeping c...

Trump helping black communities thrive
African American voters will be hard-pressed to justify casting their ballots for a Democrat next year. In just under three years, we’ve made in...

Mom’s mind was ‘sharp as a tack’
This is a continuation of the article I wrote last time about my being born at home in a farmhouse in eastern Delaware County back in 1936. My parents...

Could you have ‘A Touch of Sugar’?
In honor of World Diabetes Day on this Thursday, Nov. 14, the Delaware County Diabetes Association is hosting a free screening of the new film “...

Cepheid variable stars
As the internet develops, it has become increasingly trendy to be a nerd. It has not always been so.I speak from deep, sometimes-painful and sometimes...

Symphony performs with passion, precision
The Central Ohio Symphony opened its 41st season on Oct. 26 with another riveting concert that included three works: Christopher Weait’s “...

Land of 1,000 hoaxes
“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”- Oscar Wilde“Facts a...

Freedoms our forefathers fought for
I have to say how fortunate I have been, because as a young man, I got to travel to a lot of places. When I was much younger, I got to help a friend s...

Don’t fear National Diabetes Month
You will see and hear more information about diabetes because November is National Diabetes Month. There are as many reasons for an increase in this d...

Fighting the honeysuckle invasion
Several years ago I realized that our farm was being invaded by Japanese Honeysuckle, an aggressive shrub that takes over and smothers everything in i...