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  • Sines & Simpson perfect at Rainbow

    C.P. Sines and Todd Simpson both bowled perfect games in Rainbow’s Men’s Civic League. Sines was Rainbow’s top bowler for the week with a 766 set. Simpson scored 720/300. Rich Baker with a big score rolling 744/666.

    February 8, 2012

  • Cumberland City Council in 1894 Looking Back: 1923

    Thomas Footer knew the formula for wealth. He was a chemist after all. You take one part of good and add to it eight parts of determination and one part belief in yourself.
    It was a formula that had worked for him. He was born in England in March 1847. His father was a papermaker, but “he lost both parents in early childhood and began to earn his own living as a boy,” according to the Cumberland Evening Times.

    February 6, 2012 1 Photo

  • Here’s your chance to meet the bears

    This afternoon our weekly Sunday programs will resume at 4 p.m. in the Compton Science Center, Room 224. Compton is the large building across the Tawes Hall, set for demolition. 

    February 4, 2012

  • They got while the getting was still good

    I occasionally make reference to an unidentified woman as being “one of my numerous ex-girlfriends,” and the other night I sat on my back porch with my whiskey and cigars while conducting a review that went as far back as first grade to Indy and Sandy.

    February 4, 2012

  • For Harper, a great day to be a Mountaineer

    A dozen years ago or so, there was a Pee Wee League football player scoring virtually at will and forcing everyone in the stands to take notice.

    February 2, 2012

  • Bob Greene’s 816 leads area

    Bob Greene bowled a near-perfect 299 game and an 816 set at Wilson Lanes and was highest of the local area bowlers for the week. Scott Hixenbaugh was next high at Wilson, scoring 746/267. Clay Corbin rolled a big 290 game in his 707 set.
    At The Bowler, Dave Yates set the week’s top mark, scoring 766/278. Tim Yutzy was next, rolling 715/269.

    February 2, 2012

  • Somewhere over the rainbow starts here Somewhere over the rainbow starts here

    During a break in the program Sunday night, former Pittsburgh Pirates slugger Bob Robertson sat at a table backstage sharing some stories from the day when he played some of the finest defensive first base and hit some of the longest home runs in the major leagues in helping the Bucs to the 1971 world championship.

    January 31, 2012 1 Photo

  • Who were the people who used these things?

    It’s not likely that Prof. Henry Gates Jr. and I share a great-great-grandfather, although it is conceivable that we are distant cousins.

    January 28, 2012

  • Scientists are uncovering Earth’s distant past

     Powerful telescopes can look far away (also far back in time) to learn about the early universe; earth scientists using radioactive dating and isotopic analysis can investigate the first few billion years of our Earth’s history.

    January 28, 2012

  • Wondering? Here’s how cards began

    Just in the last few years, I have become quite the cardplayer .My father would be amazed, because he would not allow me or my brothers to play cards (with the regular cardfaces) when we were growing up. We were, however, allowed to play other games that had cards of their own, like Touring and Flinch.

    January 28, 2012