What’s the one thing you either have or you don’t have, you spend your whole life trying to attain it, and once you have it, you’ll fight to the death to keep it? It’s simple, really — peace. I’m a studier of people. I enjoy studying how people think, what makes people tick, and what motivates people to do the […]
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Enjoy heart gulyas, without a Soviet stare-down
Camp Cookin’ALLEGHENY HIGHLANDS —This recipe takes me a long way back in memory to the waning days of “The Cold War” in Central Europe. There’s a culinary and, naturally, a rugby connection. Usually the year’s first match of our Vienna Celtic Rugby Football Club was across the Hungarian border in the town of Kecskemet. This was out on the “Puszta,” or […]
Hoping for better weather
Odds & Ends• It was typical Maple Festival weather last weekend — we had rain, wind and even some snow. It seems like the weather will be better this coming weekend. I was heartbroken to see the wind damage on the courthouse lawn Monday morning on my way to work. Some of the vendors’ stands were completely thrown around in the wind, […]
Congrats to the Charger A-League basketball champions
Bits & Pieces• The Hot Springs Volunteer Fire Department and Hot Springs Volunteer Rescue Squad celebrated their service men and women at an awards banquet with a catered meal by The Inn at Warm Springs. Congratulations to the 2023 Firemen of the Year, Joseph Stover and Austin Wolfe, and EMT of the Year Kelby Smith. Welcome to the new 2024 line officers, […]
Before Obaugh’s: Carpenters as undertakers
Highland GemsBy Staff | on March 14, 2024
By Kent Botkin • HistorianMONTEREY — If you died in Highland within the past five score years, most likely the Obaugh family handled the burial. This year will mark 100 years of continuous operation of Obaugh Funeral Home, founded by Roy Obaugh in March 1924. Before then, however, Highland had an undertaker in most areas of the county, except the southwest corner. Given the […]