Editor’s note: The last article J-T columnist Melanie Behrens was working on before her death April 30 was the following story about Werewolf Lane. The information was supplied by Leroy Cook, who coll...

Copper pennies are the smallest increment in our money. And now, monetarily, they’re actually worth almost nothing. Many times in stores and businesses you will see a little jar that says, “need a pen...

I came across some information of how a once great retailer got its start and was surprised at the name disclosure at the end. I hope you too will enjoy this. If you were in the market for a watch in ...

I have locked my keys in the car a couple of times, most recently at a gas station. I must have bumped the automatic door lock as I got out. When I finished pumping the gas and realized the problem, I...

I remember 1955 pretty well, considering it was 65 years ago. How could it be that long ago? I was in the fifth grade and my teacher was Mrs. Barlow. Funny how you always remember your teachers’ names...

A while back I told you about losing my purse and having it returned with everything intact. I considered it a wonderful random act of kindness, that someone would help me in this way. There are many ...

Mary Jane Wilcox Crothers was one of those people who just made me smile. I first met her more than 40 years ago in the emergency room at Memorial Hospital. My son, Mike, had fallen off his bike and h...

In the past, I have written about crazy things my friends do. I’ve laughed about them and shared them with you. Now the story is about me. While in Florida I made a trip to the local flea market with ...

Good manners while eating out are necessary, but sometimes they seem to be a forgotten attribute. It appears that some people just don’t know how to act. For example, if you are eating dinner in a nic...

Just a few days ago I received this call from my husband, Dan, who said he had a phone call from a person who called him “grandpa.” His voice sounded like our grandson, Cole, and so he believed it was...

His life has been a good one. He graduated from Marysville High School in 1965 and not too long after that went into a fantastically interesting career … hydraulics. When I first heard this term, I th...

 I suspect when you saw the title of this column it took you right back to a family experience or one of your very own. For me it didn’t because it was a first. I have not had problems from deer on th...

 It was a tough time in the sunshine state. It turns out that when people go to Florida for a while they expect warmth and beauty, sunshine and all good things. Recently, I was there and got to experi...

He had an interesting start at Marysville High School, graduating in 1986. He went on to the Ohio State University graduating in mechanical engineering and later became a consulting forensic engineer....

This is our time to review some very interesting questions. These questions may send your mind wondering, who is the wacko who thought of these things? I decided they were interesting because they sen...

You just never know when you’ll need interesting facts of trivia. Several years ago we used to play trivial pursuit all the time and I loved it. Some of these facts would fit into that category, but a...

The new year is beginning and nothing has really changed in this situation since last year - men and women think differently about the same thing. Many of them approach the solving of a problem in the...

My friends love to participate in my column. That is to say, they love to supply me with things they think will be great topics. I have to say I do agree with these recently received. We will begin wi...

 New Year’s eve is less than a week away. We always try and make some sort of plan whether it’s a big one or little one to celebrate the New Year coming in. Sometimes there’s alcohol involved and some...

 When we think of Christmas, we think of gifts, a Christmas tree, shopping, preparation of goodies and being a little tired. It also comes to mind that because Thanksgiving was a week later, we actual...

This is part two of Ed Mean’s story. Last week we talked about Larry Edward Means and his growing up in Marysville. He lived near the railroad tracks and the old Marysville Depot just off of North Map...

 Now, many years later, he looks back on his life began as a young boy in Marysville. Born in 1952, he moved here four years later. After growing up here, he lived around the country as an adult, but ...

 Sometimes I call the computer my brains, because it helps me find the word I’m looking for or the fact I need. I also have a friend who spends a lot of time on the computer. Do you know anybody else ...

Of course, we all know what Thanksgiving is now. In 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, it was the celebration of the Pilgrims surviving their first year after they landed in our country from England. It...

 Some of these interesting facts will surprise you, while others will just plain be disgusting. Here we go with one from my youth.  “The television was invented only two years after the invention of s...

Might as well laugh about it!  Marriage is an interesting event that most of us are involved in at some time in our lives. I know many who have been married for more than 30 years. As I see it, opposi...

 I recently ran across these things called “life hacks.” The word, hack, has been defined as - to cut or chop, a worn out horse, a basketball foul, a cab for hire, or a writer whose services are for h...

 She said, “It was so fast” … the robbery, that is. Peggy Wilson (Marysville class of ‘64) and her friend went to Easton Town Center for a cooking class last Saturday. It was to be a day of cookie mak...

Farmers and cowboys both spend a great deal of time outdoors for their work. That allows them time to think and has produced some of the most interesting and thoughtful expressions I have heard in a l...

 “If you’re lucky, a dog will come into your life, steal your heart and change everything.” They only see the good in you, that is, unless there’s just too much bad. This story is about Jeanne Poling ...