John Bartus
Astronauts blast off from U.S. soil once again
Hopefully by the time you read this, two NASA astronauts — Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley — will have flown in the SpaceX Crew...
Doing the Right Thing? Fingers crossed as we begin our long-awaited...
As time moves on while COVID-19 still affects just about everything, we have come to the point many of us have been...
What In The Wide World of Sports…
There comes a time in every newspaper columnist’s life when he is staring at a blank computer screen, especially when said columnist...
Reopening Jitters & Human Concerns
“In the days to come it will be especially important to care in practical ways for the elderly, the ill and the unemployed. Finally,...
Dealing with too much time and not enough to do?
“Boredom: The desire for desires.” – Leo Tolstoy
Six weeks into our new socially distant reality, without the comfortable trappings of work and income, many...
Helping each other through difficult times
By Saturday evening, I was dead tired.
I had never seen (or carried) so many potatoes in one place at one time in my entire...
Tune into the soundtrack of Social Distancing with virtual concerts
One of my favorite things on this here planet is music — live music played with joy and spirit. There is nothing better to...
Social Distancing and Good Samaritans
We are living in what the old Chinese blessing/curse described as “interesting times.” Not many of us (outside of epidemiologists and virologists) could have...
Surviving the Coronavirus Pandemic
“The only thing we have to fear is... fear itself.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933.
There are a lot of things unknown about the coronavirus...
Helping Locals at the Seafood Festival
Marathon’s biggest event of the year is upon us: The Original Marathon Seafood Festival! This celebration of our commercial fishing heritage is incredibly popular...