Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Maybe I am ancient, because I remember when we did not have a television. In fact, for entertainment we had a big cabinet sized radio that we gathered around and listened to. When we finally got a TV, we thought we were in seventh heaven. Back in the…
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Local writers and stories
Matt’s Mishaps
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•“Serving overseas as a small-town boy from America is intense, stressful and humorous! Enjoy a light-hearted story with me from our last 20 years overseas!” – Matt Yoder Loader Van We have a friend who sells vehicles in small-town America and who found us something to drive when back in the States. Our travels always…
MATT’S MISHAPS
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•“Serving overseas as a small-town boy from America is intense, stressful and humorous! Enjoy a light-hearted story with me from our last 20 years overseas!” – Matt Who is the bigger baby? Preparing for the arrival of our baby was a big deal for me as a soon-to-be-father. The process was more perplexing since that delivery…
Military History in Paulding County
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•Things you should know
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•Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Isn’t it nice to just know some trivia about everything? With a curious mind and a big imagination, I love to know things that some people might call “Useless Facts.” I went on a search on the internet and found some useless knowledge that may be interesting to…
THE OUT HOUSE
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•MILITARY HISTORY IN PAULDING COUNTY
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•By: Mark Holtsberry Accident kills young Antwerp man. Daniel Boylan was born June 8, 1893 in Antwerp, Ohio. The son of William Nelson and Julia Ann (Rumbaugh) Boylan. William was born in Paulding County, August 25, 1861. Julia was born in Ohio March of 1859. The couple married, August 25, 1886 in Paulding, Ohio. By…
MATT’S MISHAPS
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•“Serving overseas as a small-town boy from America is intense, stressful and humorous! Enjoy a light-hearted story with me from our last 20 years overseas!” – Matt When the horse is dead, dismount Do you love your pets? My grandpa farmed and loved his shire work horses like pets. He farmed with no cab Ford…
Military History of Paulding County
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•By: Mark Holtsberry Albert Wallace Treat Interesting feature person, who started out as a Corpsman in World War 1, ended up serving as a relief officer in Iran. Albert was born December 23, 1895 in Gays, Illinois. The son of William E., born 1854, in Michigan and Carrie E. (Wallace) Treat, born February 9, 1869…
Too Many Chiefs?
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•Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker As I think of my grandma and grandpa, I just wonder what they would think of the world today. The streets where they lived and walked, the houses they lived in and everyone they may have known are gone. Would they embrace cell phones, computers, Netflix and cable…
MATT’S MISHAPS
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•“Serving overseas as a small-town boy from America is intense, stressful and humorous! Enjoy a light-hearted story with me from our last 20 years overseas!” – Matt TRYING NEW FOODS My world was pretty small growing up in small-town middle America, which was often a good thing! I took my first plane ride when I was…
MILITARY HISTORY IN PAULDING COUNTY
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•HERE POOCHIE
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•Penny For Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker Did you know that there are approximately 68,000,000 dogs currently owned as pets in the U.S? That’s 68 million dog names. Of course when I was growing up, we always had a dog. We lived with grandma and grandpa and grandpa always named a dog, Rover. We had Rover #1, Rover…