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Growing up, Halloween was pretty much the same every year.
Put on that year’s costume (each year, they got less cutesy and progressively scary).
Grab a bag that my dad got from his work and hit the streets looking for good candy.
I was always picky about my candy so a lot of it would either go to my older brother or my parents.
My mom loves the Smarties while my dad enjoyed butterscotch and other hard candies.
I personally loved the taffy type of candy with some occasional chocolate.

Furnish sisters: gentle ladies, farmers

A line from an Irish blessing bids, “May you always have work for your hands to do.” No one would agree with that more than Frances Furnish and her sister, Eileen, who have spent a good part of their lives as farmers.
A resident of Grant Manor Care and Rehabilitation Center in Williamstown for the past two years, Frances recently won the Sunbridge Healthcare Art from the Heart contest with her “Sun Bonnet Sue” hand sewn quilt.

I have never been one to play with toy guns or even shoot a real gun.
That was until I went to my friend, Kyle Swadener’s bachelor party on Sept. 24.
The original plan was for us to go shoot paintballs, but just a week before the party, I found out we were going to a shooting range.
I was a little nervous about shooting a gun, because that is not my kind of thing. I had never held a real gun until I was in front of the shooting target that day.

In a day when our world is topsy-turvy, it was nice to step back into a simpler time and enjoy an old fashioned ice cream social at the William Arnold Log Cabin in Williamstown on Sept. 16.

The event was a joint effort by the Williamstown Downtown Merchants Association and the Grant County Historical Society.

Having worked all day and gone directly to snap some photographs for the News, it didn’t take long for me to get hungry, smelling hotdogs on the grill.