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Guernsey: ‘What You Do Matters’

Letter from Sherwood Guernsey ‘What You Do Matters’ Much has been said about Joe Biden’s age, and I’m sure that Trump and your Congressional representative will continue to bring it up and insult him…even though Trump constantly gets things mixed up and can’t remember dates and names. I do not write for sympathy, because none is needed. True, seniors forget some dates, forget some names. But so what? That’s true of all seniors (and many younger folks!). What is also…

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Membrino: Roberts Just Courting Fear?

When Jason Murray, the Colorado voters’ attorney, asked the Court to uphold the state’s disqualification of Donald Trump as a presidential candidate, the Chief Justice replied with concern about tit-for-tat responses by other states resulting in the “daunting consequence” that the nation would be left with “just a handful of states that are going to decide the presidential election.”…

Bound Volumes: February 15, 2024

160 YEARS AGO
Local—Real Estate: Mr. N.H. Lake has purchased of the Prentiss estate the building in which he does business, and in which, for about 40 years this paper has been published.
Mr. Andrew Shaw, Jr., has purchased the building adjoining us on the east, of the Stowell estate, to be occupied by him as a hop store. Mr. S. will become a resident of the village in the spring.
Mr. D.A. Avery has purchased the lot opposite the mansion of Mr.…

Hometown History: February 15, 2024

70 YEARS AGO
Violet Marie Bradshaw’s long masquerade as a man exploded dramatically in a criminal court in Columbus, Ohio after a judge sentenced her to the penitentiary for embezzlement. Arrested last summer as Vernon Bradshaw, 35, of Kenova, West Virginia, on a charge of embezzling $2,000 from an ice cream company, Violet served three days in a county jail before release on $1,500 bond. After sentencing at her trial on February 10, a man who identified himself as Patrick Bradshaw,…

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