Forty Winters News

 
John Robert Weaver, 80
Muncie Star Press
He loved fishing, hunting and trapping and enjoyed spending winters in Winter Haven, Florida for the past eleven years. He loved to share with others and enjoyed visiting with friends. Survivors include his wife of forty-six years, V. Helen (Enochs) ...


 
Our opinion: It's true, summers aren't like they used to be
Times Record News
The Associated Press said it was one of the least-snowy winters on record in the Lower forty-eight, and "Some people called it the year without a winter." You have passed a certain age if you find this, as some of us do, a welcome development.

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Odell schools seeing longtime teachers depart
Pontiac Daily Leader
By Carol Winters In a few more days the second graders of Odell Grade School will be saying goodbye to their teacher, Mary Helen McCorvie. They will give her a last hug and run excitedly out the door. However, most of the kids are too young to realize ...

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Why Your Vote Won't Matter
National Catholic Reporter (blog)
by Michael Sean Winters on May. 18, 2012 I do not doubt that there will be significant differences between a second term Obama administration and a first term Romney administration. But, barring some unforeseen event, it seems unlikely that either ...

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Land for Maine's Future funding needed to restore deer population
Bangor Daily News
Forty to fifty years ago, northern and eastern Maine were considered the places to go to hunt and watch deer. Whitetail populations were healthful and abundant. Although severe winters occasionally cut their numbers, the herd quickly rebounded due to ...


 
Which Christmas Song Was Written by a Jewish Composer While sitting Poolside ...
Tucson Citizen
Consider, for example, that the most famous and recorded Christmas song ever written was created by a Jewish composer while he soaked up the sunshine poolside one winter at a Phoenix resort. Irving Berlin loved the warmth of winters in Arizona and told ...


 
Mud on the Mountain not for faint of heart
Daily American Online
Forty-one percent are women and 59 percent are men. Our oldest female is 62 and our oldest male is 69.” Participants took off from the starting line at the main lodge and ran straight up the mountain to the Spider Nest where they had to climb a cargo ...

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