Hatred of another person based on political views is not acceptable. A person who commits violence against another person based on political differences must be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

In Sudan, innocent people are being massacred every day. Starvation is claiming the lives of even more. Two regimes are locked in a death struggle, and the populace is being wiped out as collateral damage.

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Lake Milton is Ohio's tenth-largest man-made lake. The dam was constructed between 1913 and 1917 by the City of Youngstown. In 1984, ownership was turned over to the State of Ohio. The Lake and its shoreline are now managed by the Ohio State Parks Service.

The weather on November 12 was seasonal for this time of the year. A moderate breeze was from the west.

Here is photo snapped at the east side of the lake on the Mahoning Avenue Causeway.

The Loss of the Ore-Bearing Ship, The Edmund Fitzgerald, Occurred November 10, 1975. Twenty-Nine Crew Members Perished in that Tragedy Near the Eastern Shore of Lake Superior. The Event was Soon Forgotten in the Public's Collective Memory. However, the 1976 Release of Gordon Lightfoot's Ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" Solidified the Tragedy in Popular Culture, Probably for at Least Another Fifty Years.

Friday, November 7, 2025, 11:30 PM

It was a good season for the Ellwood City Lincoln High School Wolverines football team, despite its loss this evening at Steel Valley High School in the second round of the Class 2a WPIAL playoffs.

Congratulations, Wolverines!

LIFE IN
NORTHERN BEAVER COUNTY
IN 1985
The Video to a Classic 1985 Music Recording was Captured Partially in Northern Beaver County.

The recording is "Life in a Northern Town" by the musical trio The Dream Academy.

The song and video are intended as a fractured nostalgic yearning for the 1960s. Ironically, it captured something different, but just as significant - the inovations, creativity and fears of the magnificent "Big Eighties."

A brief scene of the Bridgewater area is said to be in the video. The screen grab of Route 51 signs shown above appears at the 1:40 mark.

In Northern Beaver County in the mid-1980s, Babcock & Wilcox / McDermott Steel closed. Just south along the Ohio River, LTV (formerly Jones & Laughlin) closed, also. The courthouse in Beaver, traditionally an enthusiastic venue for discussing sports and local happening, took on a dreary pall. Home foreclosures were starting, housing construction was down, people were losing hope. One saving grace was the Pittsburgh Airport not far southeast along the expressway. Many smart high school graduates took to the airport, said "Bye Bye" and never returned. Eventually, the area shook off the rust and rebounded to a reasonable degree. However, the scary strains of that era remain in the minds of residents of my generation. The Dream Academy hit a home run in capturing that theme. Here is the link to the YouTube file for that haunting musical masterpiece:
"Life in a Northern Town' by The Dream Academy

John Fray, Oct. 30, 2025

UFO reports along the East Coast of the United States continue to file in with no letup to the sightings in sight. Many of the reports are along the nature of the classic April 26, 2013, report from Puerto Rico which includes video of a relatively small spherical object traveling at a high speed and descending to the ocean surface. That particular UFO skipped along, and, at one point, broke into two pieces which continued skipping and which eventually submerged into the water. NOTE: Debunkers have looked at that video and have concluded that the object was something of low mass (maybe a balloon) which was propelled by the ocean wind.

Some of the current reports describe traveling lighted spots visible below the surface of the coastal waters.

The following map shows where some recent sightings have been reported:

Here is a link to a recent article: NY Daily Post UFO Article