Carrie Stambaugh: The queen of veggies: 7/3/09

Mark Maynard: Hey, hey we're the Monkees: 7/2/09

John Cannon: Harvesting a few memories of the 4th: 7/1/09

Cathie Shaffer: Fighting a battle in back yard: 6/30/09

MARK MAYNARD: Charles in charge as Motion adjusts
Chuck Charles and his band of merry men and women (aka the Summer Motion committee) love a challenge.

Tim Preston: Composite pools, a place to get strong and Mike’s new shop

Mark Maynard: Big Day missing important person

MARK MAYNARD: Jennings making case with Montreal
Chris Jennings continues to impress with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League.
Jennings, the former Fairview High School All-Stater, ran for 44 yards on seven carries as the Alouettes defeated Winnipeg 31-27 Tuesday night in front of 20,202 fans at Percival Molson Stadium in Montreal.

Lee Ward: 06/28/09 — Time in the country calms the soul
I thought my friend had lost his mind when he told me he and another friend of ours went together to buy a house on the Elk River in Clay County, W.Va. They call it their “camp.”

John Cannon: Chatting with an ‘insider’

Lee Ward: 06/21/09 — Shopping bus trip proves to be a day of fun
I made a weird decision for myself lately. I agreed to go on a day-long bus trip for shopping.

MARK MAYNARD: Sosa baseball's latest phony 6/21/09

Vision and the Last American Hero

MARK MAYNARD: Frustrating season for D-back ace 6/21/09
Brandon Webb is almost the last pitcher anyone would have expected to be idled for most of the season with an injury.
Through his first six seasons with the Diamondbacks, Webb was one of the most durable pitchers in baseball — averaging 219 innings a season. He’s also been one of its biggest winners with 70 victories over the last four seasons.

MARK MAYNARD: Goodell made right call on Stallworth 6/20/09

RONNIE ELLIS: Gambling debate took some unusual twists

Carrie Stambaugh: Twice the fun on half the gas: 06/19/09

Tim Preston: Gyro, patio, salon/studio and bread

Ken Hart: ‘Glory Days’... gone, not forgotten

MARK MAYNARD: Jennings impresses Alouettes 061909
Chris Jennings is still chasing a pro football dream.

LEE WARD: Shopping bus trip proves to be a day of fun 062109
I made a weird decision for myself lately. I agreed to go on a day-long bus trip for shopping.

MARK MAYNARD: Giving sandlot a chance 061809
Growing up in Ashland during the 1960s and 1970s, being involved in organized youth sports wasn’t the only way to participate.

Mark Maynard: Practicing the stiff upper lip: 6/18/09

MARK MAYNARD: Punchless Reds need help 6/17/09

John Cannon: Advice from one father to another

MARK MAYNARD: Meeks ready to join NBA 6/16/09

MARK MAYNARD: Carter enjoying project 6/15/09

MARK MAYNARD: A-Rod book ties to Ashland

ADAM VANKIRK: Busting up my fantasy world 6/13/09

MARK MAYNARD: Thinking out loud 6/12/09

Ken Hart: Falling under a (mis)spell

Mike James: Reaching for the stars: 6/12/09

Lee Ward: 06/14/09 — Sleep problem comes as surprise to sufferer
For years, I have believed I had chronic fatigue syndrome.
I had had mono twice and since had multiple bouts with exhaustion.

MARK MAYNARD: High school season still going strong 6/11/09

Mark Maynard: Even lard can make a comeback: 6/11/09

John Cannon: Mom gives son a record of childhood: 6/10/09

MARK MAYNARD: Draft day 25 years ago

CATHIE SHAFFER: Time to retrain the dog
The dog is absolutely useless in a crisis

Lee Ward: 06/07/09 — Being flexible with the language proves difficult
For some of us, it’s difficult to accept change.

Tim Preston: Barbecue, learning, hot dogs

Ken Hart: No escape from ‘Jon & Kate’

Carrie Stambaugh: Graduation wish for Jessica

Mark Maynard: Learning the 'new' wedding traditions: 6/4/09

MARK MAYNARD: Addicted to Webb watching 060409
My name is Mark and I’m an addict.

MARK MAYNARD: Some spring cleaning notes 6/3/09

CATHIE SHAFFER: Mom always gets the blame 6/2/09
My son got a ticket last Saturday and it’s all my fault.

Ken Hart: ‘Breaking Bad’ an easy show to get hooked on

Tim Preston: Ice cream, interiors and old cars

Mike James: Stars, Bars had no place in parade: 5/29/09

MARK MAYNARD: Persistent Tyndall gets Cal's UK debut
Nobody can accuse Donnie Tyndall of resting on his laurels.
Morehead State’s energetic basketball coach, who led the Eagles to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 25 years back in March, aggressively went after a date with the University of Kentucky and new coach John Calipari.

Mark Maynard: Trek is an Ashland tradition: 5/28/09

Lee Ward: 05/31/09 — Something good in everyone, even the ones who are ‘different’
Most of us have family that we’re not particularly proud of, for various reasons.

ESL classes open new doors
When my wife was first approached about teaching English as a Second Language through the adult education program at Ashland Community and Technical College, her response was that she was not fluent in any foreign language.

CATHIE SHAFFER: Great news in hard times
Guess what? I’m a millionaire!

Carrie Stambaugh: Tax might make us healthier: 5/22/09

Lee Ward: Get priorities straight: Looks aren't important — 05/24/09
Everybody needs to quit worrying about how they look

John Cannon: 5/20/09

MARK MAYNARD: Earlier start is just a start 5/19/09

CATHIE SHAFFER: It’s me versus the machines
In case you’ve forgotten the premise of the “Terminator” movies — or maybe you’ve never cared — it is that humankind must fight for existence in a world taken over by machines.

MARK MAYNARD: Highlands gives job to Flynn

Mark Maynard: Carter has a jewel of a project: 5/14/09

KENNETH HART: Time for Hannity to man up 051709
To paraphrase one of my favorite sayings, it would appear that blowhard right-wing pundit Sean Hannity allowed his mouth to write a check his butt can’t cash.

TIM PRESTON: Free air and the big breakfast 051709
My grandfather always kept an air compressor ready for anyone who needed it at the old family grocery/post office/VW garage, and I suspect he would have been either amused or angry at the idea of a business charging anyone for air.

Mike James: Clicking through the catalog

John Cannon: Father knows best: 5/13/09

CATHIE SHAFFER: Blame it on genetics

MARK MAYNARD: Church mourns special woman

MARK MAYNARD: Baseball reunion would have been thrill for catcher of '68 champions
Steve Hemlepp would have loved the Ashland Tomcat 1965-69 baseball reunion that is taking place on Friday.
Hemlepp, who died five years ago after losing a bout with pancreatic cancer, was all about those Tomcat teams. He was the starting catcher on Ashland’s 1968 state champions, the last of three titles in a row.

Lee Ward : New couch, new rules — 05/10/09
For years, I had a couch that I paid $20 for — I bought it from my next-door neighbor who wanted to get rid of it.

Ken Hart: Perez and Joe, it’s time to go

Tim Preston: Fun Friday, an evening in Ironton, coming soon and annoying calls

Mark Maynard: You prefer a buggy or a cart?

MARK MAYNARD: Was that Ernest T. riding the winner? 5/5/09

John Cannon: Staying calm during a pandemic: 5/6/09

Seeing the truth clearly now
Cataract surgery number two came off last week and brought with it a minor miracle — I can see to drive (and do most everything else) without glasses.

MARK MAYNARD: Scaff’s ties to Page strong
Sam Scaff was sitting at the barber shop waiting for a haircut when he read the news about the passing of former heavyweight boxing champion Greg Page.

TIM PRESTON: Great deli, GM expansion, yard sale 050309
A last-minute food gathering effort for an office lunch last week provided an opportunity to visit the deli at Jack’s South Ashland Cardinal Market in search of Ashland’s best cole slaw.

Mike James: Running for their lives

Lee Ward: Heard of social Web sites? This is ridiculous! — 05/03/09
Every generation laments the change it witnesses as it becomes middle aged.
My parents hated hippies, for instance.

Mark Maynard: Technology continues to call me: 4/3-/09

KENNETH HART: Another model bites 050309
As a longtime automotive geek, it was with no small amount of sadness that I digested last week’s news the Pontiac nameplate will soon join Oldsmobile, Plymouth, AMC, Studebaker, DeSoto and numerous other storied marques in that great junkyard in the sky.

John Cannon: 4/29/09

MARK MAYNARD: Field named after Kouns
East Carter’s 1984 state championship baseball team had a reunion and a surprise for coach J.P. Kouns on Saturday.

Cathie Shaffer: Educated through the school called life

MARK MAYNARD: 1960s was an amazing Ashland sports era
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the end of an amazing streak when Ashland won three consecutive high school baseball state titles and came within a pair of 1-0 losses of winning five in a row.

ADAM VANKIRK: These guys aren’t so bad 042509
I’m reminded of a line from a baseball movie classic.

Lee Ward: Filling out the wrinkles — 04/26/09
A recent television news story about how to look younger was good news to me. It said people who are heavier than average usually have a more youthful appearance, all other things being equal.

Carrie Stambaugh: Living green and loving it

Tim Preston: Moving, celebrating and best places to work

Ken Hart: We need less ‘coarse’ in our discourse

MARK MAYNARD: Swing of a lifetime 042309
Kevin Bair sometimes wonders what would have happened if that hanging curveball had fooled him.

Mark Maynard: Big Event drawing closer: 4/23/09

John Cannon: No more magazines for him

MARK MAYNARD: Conley on SEC, Adolph and more
If you want your SEC fix next year, better make sure you’re affiliated with the ESPN family of networks.
That was the word from Larry Conley, a college basketball analyst who worked for Raycom the past few seasons, during Monday’s Boy Scout Leadership Luncheon at Bellefonte Pavilion.

MARK MAYNARD: Weekend random thoughts 4/20/09

Who’s going to fill their shoes?

MARK MAYNARD: Ultimate stat-stuffer: Faulkner scores 48 041809
Ethan Faulkner, one of the stars from the Elliott County basketball machine that provided so many thrills and chills the past few years, had an All-Star weekend to remember.

Ken Hart: The Florida connection is ‘killing us’

Tim Preston: Food, moving music shop and art

Lee Ward — 04/19/09: Planting a garden not just for old people nowadays
The media often portrays every senior citizen as being countrified — having a Southern, or country, accent and having memories of growing up on a farm wearing overalls.