by Roy Hodge Last weekend, when the Final Four frenzy surrounded us from all sides, I had difficulty keeping my mind under control when it wanted to drift back and forth to some of my memories of SU and Syracuse Nats basketball games. Although I was an avid Syracuse Nationals fan in the 1950s and(…)
by Jerry Kasperek Thanks for your phone calls and e-mails. I now know that the GLF stands for the Grange League Federation — a farmer-owned cooperative where you could buy feed and seed and other kinds of farming supplies. But, I’m going to put the story of the GLF aside for another time and write(…)
by Kate Rothrock I hope everyone had a nice and relaxing spring break! It seems like the weather is finally on track to spring! Spring break marked the last long vacation and we are now in the final stretch. There are around 50 days left of school this year. Summer will be here before we(…)
by Pastor David Grey “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” — Acts 1:8 After His resurrection, Jesus showed himself to more than 500 of his disciples and gave many(…)
by Jim Farfaglia Finally We’re all out today! From the sky: the excitable chickadee, Mr. and Mrs. Cardinal, the finches, in their deepening color, a gang of bellyaching crows, and, echoing from a deep forest, the ever-probing woodpecker. From the earth: the eager daffodil, the dressed-for-a-party tulip, Miss Daisy, still concealing(…)
by Leon Archer One of the frustrating things for visiting winter fishermen who like to fish on party boats here in Florida is the fact that most of what they catch they can’t keep. I like fishing occasionally on a party boat, but I also like to have at least an outside chance of catching(…)
by Roy Hodge I am enjoying the stack of 1901 Fulton Patriots that I have been looking through since Christmas time. Up to now, I had come across only one or two pages of the very old Patriots at a time – the oldest just a few years after the first issues of the paper(…)
by Jim Farfaglia The City Farmer On drowsy winter days he sits with his hope, flipping through catalogues, imagining page after colorful page filling the brown space lying in wait. When spring arrives he stops a moment in grocery stores to turn a seed-filled carousel, letting thoughts of homegrown goodness circle through his(…)
