DEAR READERS: Presidents Day isn’t the flashiest holiday. There are no fireworks, no heart-shaped chocolates, no songs you can’t escape in the grocery store. It tends to arrive with a shrug, a long weekend and a mysterious sale on mattresses. But I’ve always liked it for what it can ...

DEAR HELOISE: Regarding Mr. Kupstas’ comment that was published in a recent column, I expect medical office staff to provide patients with clear scheduling information and to treat us as adults. I highly doubt that medical office schedulers tell drug representatives or accountants who review ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I have a diabetic nonhealing ulcer on my right heel. I was told that the blood circulation in my foot is not very good, which is why the ulcer is not healing. Five years ago, I had a nonhealing ulcer in my left heel. It got infected, and the infection went into my heel bone. ...

The margin between victory and defeat in a given hand is often razor-thin. For example, take this deal from the 1983 Vanderbilt Team championship. When Norman Kay and Edgar Kaplan held the North-South cards, they wound up in five hearts doubled on the sequence shown, and West led the queen of ...

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CANFIELD — “My brother’s mantra was ‘ God is good.’ He would say to me, ‘God is good, Marge, God is good.’” That is what Margie Cretella said about her late brother the Rev. Stephen Popovich’s positive attitude even after his 2013 car accident that left him paralyzed from ...