I remember starting off every school day by standing, facing the good old Red, White and Blue and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. We would all kind of murmur together, staring at the flag with our hands over our hearts.From a very young age, we learned that pledge and said it every day until ...

ST. BONAVENTURE - The Verona String Quartet will play works by Haydn, Ravel and Shostakovich in a performance at 7:30 p.m. Friday at St. Bonaventure University's Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.It is the second concert of the 2016-17 Friends of Good Music performance season.The Verona ...

Back in my college days, as an adjunct to my part-time job as a newspaper sports writer, I assisted in radio broadcasts of some basketball games."You sound good," I was told. Some people also told me that while my voice sounded good, I had nothing interesting to say. Hah! Probably fans of the ...

This picture entitled "Catch of the day," was taken by Robert Ormsby from his deck near Burtis Bay. The photo, taken the last week in July, shows Ormsby's neighbor's fishing net and the Summer Wind in the background. Send us your ''Best Shot'' of unique moments in your family's life. Write ...

What do you think of when you hear the term metamorphosis? My mind immediately goes to the change that a moth undergoes to become a butterfly although Webster's defines it merely as a change in shape or form.One summer years ago we did a VBS program that had a song about the butterfly. It said, ...

Most who know me, know I have an allegiance to the sports teams of Cleveland, the Indians and Browns especially. (The NBA really isn't as exciting for me as college basketball, so I check out scores from college's MAC conference - Kent State, Akron especially - and I check out Cleveland State's ...