AMATEUR RADIO ‘FIELD DAY’—Members of the Bristol Amateur Radio Club (VA/TN) and the Mountain Empire Amateur Radio Society (Smyth and Washington Counties, VA) will be participating in the national amateur radio Field Day exercise, Saturday, June 24, at 2 p.m. and Sunday, June 25, at 2 p.m. at White Top...
watercraft and nautical navigation
Question: Of the thousands of words in the English language, only three English words, according to Webster, begin with the letters “dw,” a number bumped up to at least four if you include proper nouns and names, and specifically one Central Illinois town. Can you name the dw- words? Answer:...
Question: Across from the courthouse in downtown Metamora are the statues of Abe Lincoln and a woman, Melissa Goings. Abe we know, but why is Goings there? Answer: In an 1857 trial in Metamora at which Goings was accused of killing her abusive husband, her lawyer, Lincoln, believed the killing...
ATHENS, Greece — The Greek coast guard on Friday defended its response to a ship that went down off the country’s south coast and left more than 500 migrants presumed drowned. Criticism mounted over Europe’s yearslong failure to prevent such tragedies. Patrol boats and a helicopter spent a third day...
ATHENS, Greece — The Greek coast guard on Friday defended its response to a ship that went down off the country’s south coast and left more than 500 migrants presumed drowned. Criticism mounted over Europe’s yearslong failure to prevent such tragedies. Patrol boats and a helicopter spent a third day...
ATHENS, Greece — The Greek coast guard on Friday defended its response to a ship that went down off the country’s south coast and left more than 500 migrants presumed drowned. Criticism mounted over Europe’s yearslong failure to prevent such tragedies. Patrol boats and a helicopter spent a third day...
2022 Angler & Young Angler Fishing Tournament participants gather on the Deacon Mills Park stage after the tournament. Madelyn Kohn photo Fifteen years ago, after attending a Lund dealer meeting, Krista and Dave Norton of Norton’s Dry Dock decided to bring an international fishing tournament for children to Green Lake....
LOWER TOWNSHIP — Stephen Del Monte remembers the feeling he had in 2013 when he first experienced the Escape from Alcatraz triathlon in San Francisco. The competition that started 40 years ago began its swim portion with a plunge from a ferry into the frigid waters of the San Francisco Bay....
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Chances are nobody else in the graduation class of 2023 at Howards Grove High School had as memorable a day Sunday as Saige Damrow. While the rest of her classmates were receiving their diplomas on a rainy afternoon at the school’s football field, Damrow was being toasted by...
ISTANBUL, Turkey — Chances are nobody else in the graduation class of 2023 at Howards Grove High School had as memorable a day Sunday as Saige Damrow. While the rest of her classmates were receiving their diplomas on a rainy afternoon at the school’s football field, Damrow was being toasted by...