DEAR HELOISE: I hope you or your readers can help me (and most likely many others) with learning how to respectfully dispose of used or damaged Bibles. Thank you, and I love your good work! — Eddie S., via email Eddie, this is a very thoughtful question. I’ve heard of people taking a ...
DEAR ANNIE: My 90-year-old father has been married to his third wife, who is 85, for nearly 33 years. Between them, they have five adult children: two are his and three are hers. For their entire marriage, they have relied largely on my father’s retirement account to pay their day-to-day ...
I didn’t eat asparagus until I was married. Bill’s mom had wild stashes of asparagus stands that were very old. She watched and waited, and then, at the right time, she would pick the beautiful stems to eat. Asparagus is a member of the lily family planted for the amazing harvests of ...
Here are upcoming gardening events through the Ohio State University Extension Office. For more information and a complete list, contact: • OSU Mahoning County Extension Office, 490 S. Broad St., Canfield. 330-533-5538. Office hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. • ...
YOUNGSTOWN — The director of galleries and public art at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is the new director of the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown. The Butler board approved the hiring of Anastasia James at its meeting Thursday. Search and executive committees, led by board ...
Family Day and the Summer Reading Challenge Kick Off Party take place Saturday at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library. This is the fifth year for Family Day, started by the Trumbull County Historical Society. Ryan MacLennan, TCHS director of operations and outreach, said, “When we ...
Three musicals are planned at Porthouse Theatre, Kent State University’s outdoor summer theater, for its 57th season. “Grease” opens the season on June 12 and runs through June 27. The Jim Jacobs-Warren Casey musical takes audiences back to the late 1950s at Rydell High School, led by ...
“Urinetown: The Musical” is a show with serious undertones, a satire about economic disparity and class struggle. It’s also a funny one, spoofing the musical genre that it uses to tell its story. Both elements appealed to Nate Beagle, who’s directing Youngstown Playhouse’s ...
The engagement and approaching marriage of Kayla Kapel and Santino Bianco, are being announced by the couple’s parents, Greg and Marriane Kapel of Lyndhurst, and Tina Bianco of Girard. The groom-elect is also the son of the late Philip Bianco. The bride-elect is employed as a registered ...
Mr. and Mrs. J. Ralph and Marilyn Seidner III of Salem, celebrated their 71st anniversary on Dec. 6, 2025. J Ralph and Marilyn Seidner III were married Dec 6, 1954. Their life together has been a rich tapestry of adventure, creativity, family and unwavering devotion. Their life spans states ...
Daniel and Kathy Glozer, lifelong residents of the Youngstown area, celebrated their 50th anniversary on Sept. 13, 2025. Mass was held at St. Luke Catholic Church and dinner at Alberini’s Restaurant, both attended by immediate family members. Daniel Glozer and the former Kathy Gromada ...
Charles and Gail Ann Holquist, of New Middletown, held a 70th anniversary celebration on Aug. 30, 2025, at Welker Park in New Middletown, hosted by the couple’s three children. Charles Holquist and the former Gail Ann Osborne were united in matrimony on Sept. 10, 1955, at Chapel of Friendly ...
I told you so! Not YOU specifically. Science. I called it in these very pages way back in 2012. It was the only thing that made sense. Sure, I was a little shaky the time that I insisted that the octopus is the spider of the sea. Maybe my plan to raise a breed of roof goats to keep moss ...
“I’m not a complete idiot,” the sign stated. “Some parts are missing.” The next sign over read: “If I had a dollar for everything I’ve lost… I’d probably lose that too.” Mankind’s most popular hobby just might be losing things. I had the statistics to confirm that but, ...
There were no YouTube tutorials to teach me how to drive a tractor. I had to learn the old-fashioned way — Dad yelling at me every time I popped the clutch, bucking him off the sputtering Farmall. Or maybe it was Dad who was sputtering. The main reason for the lack of video tutorials back in ...
It was Nia Vardalos who said, “Becoming a mom, to me, means you have accepted that for the next 16 years of your life, you will have a sticky purse.” Lynne Williams observed, “A mother need only step into the shower to be instantly reassured she is indispensable to every member of her ...
I’d like to believe we all daydream — just in different ways. Not always the big, cinematic kind (though I’m not opposed to perfect lighting and a slow walk on the beach), but the quieter ones that slip in between school dropoffs, grocery runs and the emails that somehow multiply when ...
I couldn’t help but wonder…when did “Who are you?” become a job interview? Not the kind where you sit across from someone in a stiff chair, but the everyday version. The one that happens in passing. At events. In line for coffee. In those in-between moments where two humans meet and, ...
I found myself the other day doing something I never thought I’d do — Googling, “Where do women my age shop?” Not for someone else. For me. And I just sat there for a second, staring at the screen like it had personally called me out. Because for the longest time, when I said ...
There are three words — actually, let’s call them a phrase because it hits harder when it flows — that we love hearing, whether we admit it or not: “I got this.” Or even better… “I got you.” There is something about those words, in that exact order, that just does ...
In my earlier years of gardening, I was attracted to and purchased unusual plants. Many of those didn’t survive beyond their first year. As I have “matured,” I have redirected my purchases toward the easy-to-grow natives that feed our local pollinators. The hotter, drier summers have ...
Here are upcoming gardening events through the Ohio State University Mahoning County Extension Office. Contact the Extension Office, 490 S. Broad St., Canfield, at 330-533-5538. For a complete list of events, visit https://mahoning.osu.edu/events. Plant and Pest Clinic What: Stop by to ask ...
As I watched a woodpecker banging away at a tree, it made me think, why don’t woodpeckers get headaches or suffer brain trauma from all that drumming? So, I looked it up. Once again, nature has created a miracle that does not allow the woodpecker to get headaches or become dizzy. ...
Our temperatures have continued to fluctuate, but our winter weather will eventually remain colder and the darkness will cause us to bundle up, keeping ourselves warm. The days are gaining minutes of light in the morning and evening, but it will be a couple of months before we notice ...