This was supposed to be the year of the tomato. I’d made plans: the caprese pasta with chopped tomatoes, garlic, basil and olive oil. The BLT sandwiches. The tomato and cheese sandwiches on the panini grill. Oh, and the best thing of all: the Sunday morning bagel with cream cheese and ...
Q. I start high school soon. In my freshman orientation packet there was a note saying AI is not permitted. I get that they don’t want us to write our papers using AI, but isn’t AI what you use when you search online? Do you think they’re saying we can’t do that? That’s unrealistic. ...
Welcome back to the scholastic sports season. The stadium lights are turning on again in the area as the local high school football teams kick off their seasons Friday night. Soccer gets underway as well as volleyball, field hockey and cross county. Girls tennis is just beginning and golf ...
It seems like a morning TV show host would be a great gig. You chat with Aubrey Plaza and Theo James, eat frittatas prepared by Geoffrey Zakarian and Bobby Flay, interview the East Tennessee State University Marching Buccaneers in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, watch Fergie somersault to ...
By Dave Bates For the Observer-Reporter Back when I coached baseball, we had a rule: no jewelry was to be worn. Period. On field, off field, locker room, buses, etc. To me, jewelry served no legitimate purpose. Quite frankly, I find it absurd for a kid to be festooned in 24K gold while ...
As some of you know, I had a mouse event last month. While sitting in my bedroom, I saw a medium-size, dark brown thing run in and then back out. What followed was a binge of buying mouse abatement products – some old-fashioned traps and a single glue trap. I object to glue traps ...
