Who doesn’t remember visiting old friends, experiencing exciting adventures, traveling to new worlds — all courtesy of that glorious art form known as the comic book? First appearing in the United States in 1933, the comic book has remained a steadfast mainstay of literary entertainment for young and … Read More
Owen Cobbum finally did what the county asked.
The problem is, he did it without a valid permit, and after $70,000 in fines had accrued.
SYRACUSE — During a special meeting Monday evening, Sept. 21, the Turkey Creek fire board voted to recommend to the Syracuse Town Council Fire Chief Mickey Scott’s request for a new ambulance.
Read MoreFrom its mundane beginning as a wallpaper cleaner, the household compound now known as Play-Doh has come a long way. The product was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 1998 and five years later was recognized as one of the 100 most memorable and creative … Read More
At the Monday evening, Sept. 14, Turkey Creek fire board meeting, Fire Chief Mickey Scott unsealed two bids the department received for a new ambulance. The new vehicle will serve as the scheduled replacement for the department’s current 2002 ambulance. The board directed Scott to analyze the voluminous … Read More
MILFORD — About 1,600 fifth-graders swarmed the confines of TruHorizons in Milford for the first Safety First days, a three-day event designed to teach safety on half a dozen topics. Twenty-seven tents were set up on the grounds, two large tents for the beginning and ending plenary sessions … Read More
We call them goobers, monkey nuts and ground peas; we eat them by the millions of tons; and we devote every Sept. 13 to celebrating the versatile culinary ingredient that started as pig food. National Peanut Day rolls around again Sunday, Sept. 13, so it may be appropriate … Read More
Phil Keiser, chief executive officer of Culver’s, the frozen custard restaurant chain, visited his alma mater, NorthWood High School, during a two-day stay in his hometown of Nappanee, Thursday and Friday, Aug. 27 and 28. Keiser and his wife, Betsy (Best), both graduated from NorthWood in 1974 and … Read More
We’ve all done it. We’ve put off until later something we could have — and probably should have — done now. Some of us may be more chronic about it than others, but procrastination is a universal trait among us fallible humans. Procrastination, from the Latin words meaning … Read More
The U.S. Patent Office knows it, among other things, as “a helical spring having substantially no lateral force between turns in closed position when no external force is acting … and in which the spring cross section is of a shape which has essentially lower torsional stiffness of … Read More
Monday’s meeting of the Turkey Creek fire territory executive board involved bids for paving and cosmetic work on the township’s fire stations and a clarification by President Kimberly Cates about fundraising efforts to help pay for exercise equipment for the department.
Read MoreThough costs ran “considerably more” than expected, renovation of the township’s cemeteries has reached the halfway point. Turkey Creek Township Trustee Barb Griffith reported Monday, Aug. 10, the charges totaled $56,567.50 for tombstone and memorial marker remediation, tree removal, landscaping and debris removal. The township had budgeted $30,000, … Read More
They are indispensable to our food supply, live in highly organized societies and, according to Albert Einstein, if they leave us, mankind will be extinct within four years. Honeybees are honored annually on World Honey Bee Day, the third Saturday of August. Honeybees live in astoundingly organized colonies, … Read More
For most of their history, lighthouses (celebrated nationally every Aug. 7) were not houses. At the very beginning, they weren’t even buildings. Nature periodically provided the first nighttime navigational landmarks in the form of glowing volcanoes. The first man-made lighthouse was the tallest ever built. The Pharos of … Read More
Even though sometimes on Rain Day (July 29 each year) we want to shake our fist at the sky and shout, “Enough, already!” the fact is we humans need rain to survive. We require not just stationary water (97 percent of the world’s supply is undrinkable salt water), … Read More
