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Equal light and darkness: The first day of autumn

September continues to be a great weather month. The heat and humidity have dissipated and we continue to see a lot of sunny pleasant days and nice cool mornings.In the woods, the mixture of sunshine and shade produces a beautiful pattern of dappled light that dances whenever there is a bit of ...

Mancuso was two-sport star at Connellsville

Joe Mancuso had great guidance as a young athlete, and he took the life lessons he learned and used them as a coach and educator.Mancuso was a two-sport athlete at Connellsville High School, playing football and basketball.He was a quarterback and defensive back for some very good Falcon ...

WWE Backlash on the air tonight

Smackdown presents Backlash tonight on the WWE Network, and the show is proof of how thin the brandĢƵ roster is.I have said in this column for weeks how one-sided the WWE draft was, and it will only get worse with the cruiserweight division debuting next week.Dean Ambrose defends the WWE ...

Living in the comfort zone

I have always been an advocate for the weather and climate of our area.Climate is defined as what to expect and weather is defined as what you get. Climate deals with the past. Weather usually deals with the present and the future. Years and years of weather data is collected, studied and then ...

For visitors: Rare insights at mountain retreat

Good friends of ours live on an old farm on the flank of Mt. Davis, PennsylvaniaĢƵ highest point. They moved here from Lancaster County 25 years ago, drawn to the mountain landscape and the chance to live simply, interacting daily with the natural world.Gregarious folks, they invite us ...

WWE answers question with more questions

As I watched Raw this past Monday, I thought back to a Roddy Piper promo from when I was a little kid.Paraph-rasing the line to fit Raw on Monday, it went, “Just when you think you have all of the answers, I change the questions.”This past Monday on Raw, Kevin Owens walked out of Raw as the ...