My parents Raymond and Barbara Johnson fell in love in the late 1930s, at Lake Erie State Park where they spent so many days of laughter and light. I still have the photographs of mother in her gingham checked shorts with her hair pulled back in a scarf. Dad looks movie-star-handsome. ...

Recently I attended a Land Trust Alliance conference in Minneapolis, Minn. The main focus of the conference was on land conservation. Since I do a lot of public outreach and environmental education for the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy, I tried to seek out seminars on those subjects at the ...

With more and more retail businesses opening on Thanksgiving Day, it is refreshing to hear of a family that won’t let pre-Black Friday sales get in the way of a tradition that has taken place over 70 years. Between 40 and 90 Werner Family descendents gather every year on Thanksgiving Day ...

Aluminum Christmas trees, moon and star themed Christmas tree bulbs, odd shaped Christmas tree bulbs, bubble lights, all are from the space age. What do you remember from that time period? What excited you about the space race? This year’s 38th annual holiday exhibit, Space Age Christmas, ...

Warren, Pa. — And out of the basement shall come a “Church Basement Ladies” musical of good tidings, great humor and joy. The ladies are serving it up again. This time around it’s an all new holiday show performed at the Struthers Library Theatre on Saturday at 8 p.m. This is the ...

At first when Patty had knee pain she would literally “shake it off.” But after a while, the pain in her left leg was too much to ignore. Patty could barely walk. Even standing was painful, which was problematic for a professor who needed to stand for hours during classes. Patty walked ...