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Trail tales: Snow reveals wild creatures’ habits

Even in this feeble winter, shallow snow persisted recently in the local mountains for about a 10-day span. It was long enough for wild creatures to document their movements, habits and even some amusing incidents as a temporary record.I chuckled as I unraveled the story told by turkey tracks ...

Tod Trent was one of the good guys

<em>NOTE: Look for George Von Benko's "Memory Lane" story on Tod Trent in this coming Monday's edition of the ĢƵ.</em>The year was 1989 when I took a suggestion from my good friend Taz Zajac and put in a call to the sports editor of the ...

McGee to be inducted into NIAA HOF

Bill McGee heeded the advice of Horace Greeley to “Go West, young man” back in the 1970s.The former Uniontown native will be honored with induction into the Nevada high school Hall of Fame by the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association on March 14.McGee played basketball for the ...

Royal Rumble review

The “Road to WrestleMania” officially began last Sunday at the Alamodome in San Antonio, and the show has received mostly positive reviews.Randy Orton won the Rumble, John Cena won his 16th World title by defeating A.J. Styles in a classic match, and Kevin Owens retained the Universal title ...

January continues year of above normal warmth

January continued a trend started almost a year ago with temperatures across a large portion of the United States coming in well above normal.The warmth covered the entire eastern United States from Maine to Florida and west to California. Only the extreme northern states and the Pacific ...

Ho, hum, get ready for ‘Brady, Belichick, Pats greatest ever’

I think Super Bowl 51 will be close. I really do. Even so, there is no allure to this game for me whatsoever. It's all just "Yay, the Patriots win No. 5, Brady is the greatest player of all time, Belichick is the greatest coach of all time, it's the greatest dynasty of all time ... blah, blah, ...