MISS: On Thursday, America celebrated its independence with plenty of hot dogs – the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council estimates that 150 million hot dogs are consumed on that day alone – and lots and lots of fireworks. Though the extent of the rockets' red glare and bombs bursting in ...
MISS: If it looks like cronyism and smells like cronyism, then it’s probably cronyism. And that’s what the hiring of Joe Bendik as Washington County’s special projects coordinator looks like. Bendik started on the job last month with a list of duties that include overhauling the ...
HIT: If you came of age well before the dawn of social media, you’re likely to think of sites like Facebook as a useful way to stay in touch with old friends or strike up new friendships with people who share your interests. But some public health officials have been arguing that there is ...
HIT: James Lawson was born in 1928, the same year as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and was an important ally of King’s in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Unlike King, who was cut down when he was just 39, Lawson was able to live a long life and see the changes that ...
HIT: The tunnels that are cut through mountains and hillsides and under rivers are marvels of modern engineering. And it’s easy to imagine how awed drivers must have been a century ago when they traveled through the Liberty Tunnels in their Model Ts when it opened to traffic in January ...
HIT: Thanks to his job as a school supervisor in the communities within proximity to Avella, Alvin Dinsmore White was able to compile valuable information about people and families in the region. White himself died in 1994, just a few months before his 100th birthday, but his legacy endures ...
