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MELINDA MYERS: Create Your Own Garden Soil

Fall is filled with preparing gardens for the following season, raking leaves, and harvesting. Use plant trimmings and fall leaves to create raised beds and a quality planting mix...

SERWAN ZANGANA: Honor The Victims From 9-11

It is a sensitive subject at this time, but should we be honest with ourselves...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Our National Debt Has Become A National Emergency

The biggest foe or problem facing the United States today is not Communist China, Putin’s...

MIKE KEELER: It’s Time To Get Your Hex On

At 2:50 AM EDT on September 22nd we crossed the Autumnal Equinox and headed into...

FRED FIRST: Nature Puzzler: What is THIS?

I get “nature puzzlers” often from my kids, and from our friends that know I’d...

There – That Was a Monster . . . Wasn’t It?

Somewhere, in a forest near you, the MonsterQuest team is searching the underbrush for something abnormal, something monstrous.  Unfortunately, the likelihood of these folks...

Groundhog Update: Captivity Going Almost Famously for “Big Boy” and “Baby”

What if you were a rehabber of everything feathered and furred? What if you received two groundhogs who preferred inside to outside, and deplored...

Between A Rock and A Tree

My dad was a hard-case -  no doubt. Build a garage, dig a sewage line, whatever it was, he never hired it out; he...

Where is Your Money Going?

It is no secret that the American people are facing a very tough economic climate. Families and small businesses are cutting back on...

Preacher’s Corner: The Bread of Life: What Is It?

When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?”   “For the bread of God is that which comes down from...

The Miracle of Roanoke’s “Lost Boys” of Sudan

Eight years ago members of my church, Raleigh Court Presbyterian, noticed tall, lanky young black men walking along Grandin Road. Upon learning they were...