Since it opened eight years ago, the Military Sea Services Museum has attracted donations of artifacts from the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard veterans and their families from around the state and the country. ...more

February 10, 2009

Slowly, painfully, self-awareness has come to George W. Bush. "Turns out this isn't one of these presidencies where you ride off into the sunset, you know, waving goodbye," the president told the conservative American Enterprise Institute in December. ...more

January 11, 2009

Mary Epperson's feet were back on the ground but her head was still up in the clouds as she stood before her students Monday at Hudson Middle School. Less than 24 hours earlier she had experienced something that until just a few years ago had only been known to astronauts and few others, the feeling of floating virtually weightless in the air, and she did it without having to go into orbit. ...more

December 17, 2008

The election is finally over, thank God. However, Dale Gillis is still throwing rocks at John McCain and his running mate (Nov 27 letter). His comments about McCain watching the fire on the USS Forrestal on July, 1967, on TV and doing nothing are absolute nonsense. ...more

November 30, 2008

Mary Epperson was one of those children who grew up in the 1960s, watching the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts blast into space and splash down in the ocean. ...more

November 28, 2008