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The average length of life in America is about 77 years old, but researchers at Duke University’s School of Medicine suggest that physical decline begins in your 50s and worsens with age, especially for those who don’t exercise regularly. Are you getting enough exercise to remain physically healthy for as long as possible? According to CDC guidelines, 75 percent of Americans don’t get enough exercise. Adults should get at least 150 minutes a week of moderate intensity activity, which works out to be about 30 minutes a day five days a week. To d...
Herald of April 14, 1898 At 6 o’clock on Friday morning the blank book factory fire whistle sounded the fire alarm in Roaring Spring. Many of the denizens of the village had not yet arose, but soon with partially buttoned suspenders and disheveled hair, they rallied to the scene at Frank Akers grocery and meat market. An old sawdust spit-box sat near the door and it is supposed some fellow threw a “snipe” therein and during all the night it smoldered, and was discovered in the morning. The loss consisted of a broken showcase, soaked tobie...
In the Curryville two-room school, Bobbie Ritchey and I made up the first and second grades with a couple more students joining us in grades three through seven. Our eighth year, we attended junior high in Martinsburg. Bob and I were a little competitive, especially grades five through seven. We not only knew the states and their capitals, we kept track of which ones the other missed. We probably both worked a little harder just to be sure we were not out-graded by the other. My favorite memory...
Lynnae Krehl has announced that she is running for a seat on the Spring Cove School Board. Krehl and her husband live in the Roaring Spring Borough with their two young sons. She was born and raised in Morrisons Cove. Krehl is a graduate of Central High School, Penn State with a B.S. in Human Development and Family Studies, and Pitt with a Master’s in social work. Prior to moving back to Roaring Spring, Krehl and her husband lived in Connecticut and Pittsburgh. She puts great value on raising h...
Gretchen Stern Bettwy is a Republican running for a position on the Spring Cove school board. She was raised in this district and graduated from Central High School. Upon graduation, she furthered her education at Penn State University with bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Crime, Law, and Justice. After undergraduate school, she continued into a master’s degree in Community Counseling at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After graduating with her master’s degree, Gretchen continued to be...
Seventeen-year-old Charlie Reade is a normal teenager, until one day his neighbor Mr. Bowditch falls off his ladder. Charlie takes care of the grumpy older man, and the two become friends. Charlie notices that sometimes strange sounds come from the shed in Mr. Bowditch’s backyard. When Mr. Bowditch passes away, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape that he has recorded, telling him everything about the shed and the secrets it holds, the secrets that Mr. Bowditch has kept for most of his long l...
To the Editor: Having worked with the land warrants and patents for more than thirty years as a reference archivist at the Pennsylvania State Archives and having made extensive use of the Bedford County tax records in my personal genealogical research over the same period, I was interested to read the article entitled “Open House in Bedford County to Show Connected Warrant Survey Maps” in this past week’s issue of the Morrisons Cove Herald. Unfortunately, the article is marred with inaccuracies and errors. I would like to correct a few of th...
Republican Rodney Green has announced his candidacy for Spring Cove School Board. Green will cross-file for both the Republican and Democratic tickets. Green is a native of Roaring Spring and has lived in that community for the past 34 years. He is currently serving on the Roaring Spring Borough Council. He is a 1970 graduate of Central High School, earned B.S and M.Ed. degrees from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and has completed advanced studies at Penn State University. He has worked in...
Andrea Moses has announced that she will be running as a Republican candidate for school board in the Spring Cove School District. Moses was raised in Martinsburg and graduated from Central High School in the year 2000. She received a bachelor’s degree from Juniata College in Communications and Human Resource Management. As a parent of two children who attend Spring Cove, Moses is concerned with the direction of our state and federal government and the impact it will have on our children and t...
Gwendolyn longs for a pet. It is her dearest wish. What kind? Any kind! How many legs? Two, four, ten — she’s not picky! Her parents refuse to let her have a pet. Not a cockatoo, not a gerbil, not even a shrimp. However, since Gwendolyn is so eager to have something to care for, her parents have other ideas and give her a wooden box — full of dirt. “It smells of swamp,” Gwendolyn says, but her parents say it smells of possibilities. Gwendolyn’s displeasure doesn’t last long. Once Gwendolyn rea...
By JOSEPH WALK For the Herald Last month Nancy and I traveled to Franklin County and drove through a small village named Roxbury. The sign at the edge of town stated this town was named for a town in England. This rang familiar. As a newcomer, I was curious why a small local Pennsylvania community in the Cove would also be associated with a village in the United Kingdom. Were the original settlers from England? The southern Morrisons Cove town of Woodbury in Bedford County has a very interesting sign as one enters the borough. It reads:...
The symptoms of dry eye disease are well known to many of us and can include some or all of the following: red and watery eyes, a sandy/gritty sensation, blurry vision, burning, and eye fatigue. These symptoms of dry eye disease occur when the tears are unable to provide proper moisture to the eye’s surface. The tears are comprised of an aqueous (water) layer and a lipid (oil) layer. An abnormality in one or both of the tear components results in inflammation and often damage to the delicate structures of the front of the eye. Proper and p...
Misti Fisher is running for a seat on the Spring Cove School Board. Fisher is a wife and mother of three children; a daughter who is a recent graduate of Spring Cove, and two sons who are current students in the district. Fisher attended Allegany College of Maryland and University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, where she earned a degree in General Studies and a degree in Business Administration. She has owned/operated a successful, small business in Martinsburg for the past 13 years. Fisher is acti...
“Wilderness Tales: Forty Stories of the North American Wild” is a collection of short stories about life in the North American outdoors. These stories run the gambit from classic literature to modern-day writings. Authors included in the collection include Frederick Douglass, Ernest Hemingway, L. Frank Baum, Ray Bradbury and Margaret Atwood, just to name a few. The book is introduced by the editor, who gives us a glimpse into the how and why of the book. She discusses how the wilderness sto...
A new discovery, reported today in a global study that encompassed more than a decade of research, could lead to the breeding of corn crops that can withstand drought and low-nitrogen soil conditions and ultimately ease global food insecurity, according to a Penn State-led team of international researchers. In findings published March 16 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the researchers identified a gene encoding a transcription factor – a protein useful for converting DNA into RNA – that triggers a genetic sequence res...
Cold, dark, drab, dreary, January is the longest month of the year. I realize that it has 31 days the same as March, May, July, August, October, and December, but it seems days longer. I am thankful that the Romans decided to shorten February. The long days leave us retired folks wanting for something to do. Puzzles are a good cure for our cabin fever. They were first created by John Spilsbury in 1766. Spilsbury, a cartographer and engraver, cut up maps with a marquetry saw to teach children...
Everyone knows the names Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, but are you familiar with the name Dorothy Horstmann? Lynn Cullen’s new book takes us back to the 1940s, when public pools and parks were quiet during summer as families stayed home, trying to prevent their children from getting polio. Outbreaks across the United States were causing entire cities to be locked down. But there was a tiny glimmer of hope, as the best scientists from around the world were racing to find out how polio works, w...
For family members unexpectedly taking care of a relative’s child during the opioid crisis, it can be difficult to navigate the legal waters of assuming custody. The process may be easier — and come with more support — if these caregivers have personal connections to local resource institutions, according to a study conducted by a Penn State faculty member. The researcher examined kinship care families — arrangements in which children are cared for primarily by relatives such as aunts and uncles, grandparents, siblings, and family friends...
Republican Samantha Snowberger has announced her candidacy for Spring Cove School District School Board. Snowberger has cross-filed for both the Republican and Democratic tickets. A long-time resident of the Spring Cove area, Snowberger currently serves as an interim school board director after being voted in to fill a vacancy in December 2022. Snowberger, a wife and mother, is a 1997 graduate of Central High School and attended Lock Haven University where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Psy...
To the Editor: I believe in school choice for Pennsylvania because I am a product of school choice. I attended private and public schools through the 70s and 80s. Also, I appreciate the high-quality education my children and grandchildren have received at public brick-and-mortar charter schools, Cyber public schools, traditional public schools, and private schools. It has been amazing to choose for each of my children and grandchildren which schools met their unique needs. I am proud to say that my adult children all contribute positively to...
Nisha Cantor and Sam Kemp could not be any more different. Nisha lives the globetrotting life of the rich and spoiled. She hops from country to country with her designer bags and clothes, hanging on the arm of her insanely rich and handsome husband. Sam is struggling to keep her life together. Her husband lost his job and his father and is struggling with deep depression. Her boss does not appreciate her or the work she does at all. The only thing these two women share is a trip to the same gym...
In a study that likely is more notable for how it was conducted than for what it found, a Penn State-led research team discovered evidence that browsing by white-tailed deer had relatively little long-term impact on two tree species in a northern forest. The research took place in both fenced and unfenced plots in a one-square-mile area in the Flambeau River State Forest, Wisconsin, which had an estimated deer density of about 18-31 deer per square mile at the beginning of the study. With seven years of data, researchers examined survival and...
Our Curryville tour now has us at the two-room school house. The school house (shown right) is directly across the road from the church. That building is now a community room owned by the church. The original blackboards, doors and wood paneling are still there. Sunday School classes and many events are held there. Local ladies gather on Tuesdays to make quilts, stitch by stitch with loving hands. Robert (Bobbie) Ritchey and I were the only ones in the first and second grades. When I told...
What do you stand for when you are one of the last few standing? This is the question Leigh Chen, first daughter of the United States, and a group of kids are faced with when the eruption that triggers the apocalypse arrives months ahead of schedule in the year 2072. While their parents, some of the world’s most important leaders, scientists and engineers, are away overseeing the construction of the space fleet that will save some of mankind when the eruption happens, their children are touring...
For Women’s History Month, we have selected six First Ladies of the United States who displayed political, social and decorative expertise and brought credibility to their gender. In addition, the First Ladies that we are profiling are distinguished by “firsts” that they accomplished during their service to the nation. Abigail Adams Early in 1776 Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John Adams, the future second president of the United States, at a time when women could not vote, arguing for the independence of the English colonies in North...
Indeed, it’s way too quiet at our house. Let me explain. One of our daughters, Bethany, lives and works in Germany. She married a fine German man, Jörn, and they have a very active son, Ezra. Ezra, by the way, is two and a half years old. Do you see where this is heading? In October, Bethany and her family announced they will be visiting us for Christmas this year. Nancy and I thought that was a great idea! After all, 2017 was the last year Bethany had been to Pennsylvania. They had it all planned, including wisely bracketing their flights we...
Emily, a cozy novel writer, and Chess, a self-help goddess, used to be inseparable, but life happened, and the two dear friends grew apart. Now, as Emily struggles with a gut-wrenching divorce and the accompanying writer’s block, Chess suggests a chance to reconnect and refresh: a summer in an Italian villa. This is not just any Italian villa, though. Villa Aestas (once Villa Rosato) is infamous for a murder that took place there in 1974 when rockstar Noel Gordon invites up-and-coming m...
Followers of the Blue Pirates consider teams from 1955 through 1968 to have played during the “golden age” of Williamsburg High School basketball. During that time the Pirates advanced to six State Championship games, winning two of them. The 1968 team is the last WHS boys’ team to have advanced to a state final, losing by only one point in the final seconds of the game. Expectations for the 1968 team were high. The team featured three starters from the 25 – 1 1967 team, all who had average...
We have always been “critter” people. Throughout our 63-plus years of marriage we have pampered dogs, cats, a squirrel and various other forms of wildlife. The squirrel, “Scamper Gray,” was found on my parents’ farm in the Cove and raised on baby formula. He was a summer’s full of fuzzy-tailed enjoyment for our children. Scamper dined royally on cashews and breakfast cereal and spent his nights in a doll baby buggy in our daughter’s room. At times he would crawl up one leg, bury a cashew in the...
Death by Bubble Tea is the first novel in a new cozy mystery series by Jennifer Chow. Wikipedia describes cozy mystery series, or “cozies,” as “a subgenre of crime fiction in which sex and violence occur off-stage, the detective is an amateur sleuth, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community.” This first novel of the L.A. Night Market Mysteries has been dubbed by the New York Times as “the first in a fizzy new series.” Yale Lee, a resident of Eastwood Vi...
In a small town in The Cove sits a road known as Penn Street. Like any other street it holds houses, businesses, lots, or any other matter of human structure. However, it also holds a house full of memories. The first day in a new town. The many celebrations. The first days of school. The friends made nearby. It is a house like any other but for the stories the walls could tell. If you listen closely you could still hear the joy, smiles, or celebrations of the 17 years I lived there. It is where my parents showed the ways I could live my life a...
Carol Taylor has announced her intention to run for Blair County commissioner. She was the Democratic nominee for the Pennsylvania state senate seat in 2022. Taylor, an Altoona resident, has a bachelor of arts degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Connecticut, and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Houston. She started her career in Texas as a human services planner, getting the necessary funding and planning for the first EMS system in a seven-county, largely rural district. She had a trial practice in Pennsylvania and...
From 1955 through 1968, Williamsburg High School produced basketball teams that won numerous league and district titles, advanced to the state championship game six times, and twice won the Class C (now Class A) State Championship. Many of these teams are local legends. However, one of the best teams of the era is sometimes forgotten. This is the 1967 team. Sandwiched between the 1966 State Championship team and the 1968 team that advanced to the state title game, losing by only one point, the...
Mary Margaret, Lilly, and Betsy meet on the bus on the way to Pinecraft, Florida. The three wallflowers of their Amish communities soon become fast friends as they enjoy their time on vacation and makes plans for how their lives will be different when they go home. They share secrets with each other that they have never told anyone before, but Mary Margaret still feels that she must hold a few things back from her new friends. When Mary Margaret meets Jayson, a handsome young Amish carpenter,...
Blair County Commissioner Amy Webster has announced her candidacy for a second term surrounded by supporters. Webster, a Republican, is running on her experience, conservative values, and conservative voting record to cut government spending, improve budget efficiency, build local infrastructure, and protect gun rights in the county. As Commissioner, Amy Webster voted against 100 percent of tax increases. Webster serves as the Commissioner liaison for several departments where she and her teams improved financial results. Amy cites examples,...
Deb Baughman and Matthew Wilt are announcing their candidacies for Bedford County Commissioner in the 2023 Democratic Primary. After rolling up her sleeves to get to work in 2020, Baughman realizes there is still much work to do. She is asking voters for a second and final term to finish projects, tackle additional challenges and prepare for a new generation of elected county leaders. “Being a commissioner is a complex and demanding job with a steep learning curve. After navigating the COVID pandemic during my first year, I have now hit my s...
About one half mile off the Curryville road on Cross Roads was where my best friend, Joyce, lived. There was a long lane to her house. Her parents Warren and Mary Frederick lived in one house and beside it lived her Aunt Ruth Zook, who taught at our school sometimes. These houses are shown in the top photo to the right. I spent many Sundays and over nights at Joyce’s house. Joyce’s grandmother was blind. Somehow she still managed to have the potatoes peeled when we would return from church on...
A small seaside town in southwest Ireland provides a vivid setting for secrets, scandal, grudges, and murder. The suspicious death of wealthy horse farm owner, Jimmy O’Reilly brings veterinarian Dimpna Wilde back to her hometown of Dingle. While all of her family still reside there, Dimpna’s trips home from her life in Dublin have been few. The events and secrets of the past, which began 27 years ago, have caused her to avoid going back to Dingle. But the death of O’Reilly unravels a drama...
To the Editor: I am writing to thank Martinsburg-area residents for sharing the true meaning of Christmas with children in need this past holiday season. Generosity throughout contributed to a successful shoebox gift collection season at drop-off locations for the Samaritan’s Purse project Operation Christmas Child. Across the U.S., the project collected over 9.3 million shoebox gifts in 2022. Combined with those collected from partnering countries in 2022, the ministry is now sending nearly 10.6 million shoebox gifts to children world...
The 1965 Williamsburg High School boys’ basketball team was made of an incredible cast of players. Not only did the team feature a trio of high-scoring guards; it also had a group of four tall inside players who helped the Pirates dominate nearly every game they played. During the regular season the team was challenged only once in a three-point 72-69 victory at Juniata Valley. Normally, the team won by 20 points or more. Remarkably, the Blue Pirates averaged 100 points per game during the r...
In 1872, the English poet Christina Rossetti published a famous poem which begins: “In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago.” Gustav Holst later set her poem to music and most folks would still recognize his lyrical tune today. His song came to mind recently as I pondered what January is like in the Cove. I think Rossetti’s poem sums up January pretty well. January is not only the coldest but also the windiest month...
Following the 1961 WHS basketball team’s state runner-up season, the 1962 and 1963 teams could not advance out of the district into the statewide playoffs. Despite having a number of fine players, including the legendary Don Appleman in 1962, the WHS teams could not defeat a tall, talented Gallitzin team in 1962 or a state championship squad from Rothrock in 1963. However, the 1964 WHS team won the District 6 Championship, returning the Blue Pirates to the championship level. The team advanced to the Western Regional final where a fine C...
“Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once.” So starts this fresh and darkly comedic novel by Australian author Benjamin Stevenson. Ernest Cunningham, a writer of books on how to write books, reluctantly agrees to go to his family reunion at a remote mountain resort. But Ernie’s family isn’t your typical family; they are a notorious crime family. And this isn’t a typical reunion; Ernie’s brother Michael is being released from prison...
The ecological health of the nation’s largest estuary remains stuck at a low level, according to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. The Annapolis, MD-based environmental group graded the Bay’s overall vitality a D+, the same lackluster mark it got in 2020. In a note introducing its biennial State of the Bay report, CBF President & CEO Hilary Harp Falk said it “shows there is still a long way to go to create a watershed that works for all of us.” CBF said that 7 of the 13 pollution, fisheri...
In the fall of 2001, Ana Montes went to work at the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C. By the end of the day, the senior Pentagon analyst would be arrested for espionage, exposed as a secret agent for Cuba. She would go on to be called “the most important spy you’ve never heard of” and “one of the most damaging spies in U.S. history.” Her story was not widely publicized at the time of her arrest, as the United States, and really, the world, was still reeling from the horrific...
Blair County Commissioner Laura Burke announced that she will seek re-election in 2023. Burke is currently serving in her first term as commissioner. In announcing her campaign, Burke said, “I am motivated to continue working to improve our day-to-day operations while using the experience I gained through managing the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Presidential election, and extreme staffing challenges in our Tax Claim and Children, Youth, and Families offices to lead through whatever unexpected problems arise.” Commissioner Burke is the Lia...
Longtime Blair County resident and Attorney Dave Consiglio (R-Hollidaysburg) has formally declared his candidacy for a seat on the Blair County Court of Common Pleas in the 2023 Primary Election. Describing his legal philosophy as that of a “Constitutional Conservative” in the tradition of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Consiglio’s career spans nearly three decades in Pennsylvania courtroom experience in over 30 counties and four states. In a video released in December, Consiglio said citizens deserve a commitment to princ...
Frank has spent 60 years riding the number 88 bus in London, searching for a woman with whom he had a chance encounter. This brief meeting with her changed his entire life. Though he was supposed to meet her for a date, he lost her number and never got her name. He waited for her at the bus stop near the National Gallery where they were supposed to meet, but he never saw her again. Now, fighting dementia, he continues to search, knowing time is running out before he will be put in a care home...
Curryville Road will take you into beautiful country with bountiful fields and bring you to the village of Woodbury. The Woodbury Church of The Brethren is on the first road to your right. Our church joined that church for Love Feasts. Love Feast was held once each year. There was a little bowl of delicious beef and beef broth over bread. That was called the sup. The unleavened communion bread and a tiny cup of grape juice was our reminder of how Jesus became our Savior when he died on the...
As we look forward to all that 2023 has to offer, it would be remiss not to reflect on the year behind us. So, let’s look at the top circulations in 2022 at the Martinsburg Community Library. If you missed any of these amazing reads, stop by the library today to check one out! 5. “The 6:20 Man” by David Baldacci: Highly decorated solider Travis Devine has survived tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. When he leaves the military under suspicious circumstances, he trades in combat fatigues for business suits. Who would ever guess that the world of hi...
