BUCKEYE LAKE — Thousands of tattooed, dye-haired, non-conformists descended on central Ohio, 23 miles south of the Knox County line, for the Camp Anarchy music festival over the weekend. The event was more than just bands — to be the embodiment of the punk rock movement shown through community, camping, thrashing and fun. Legend Valley, […]
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Is pedophile ring behind Amy Mihaljevic murder?
ASHLAND — Three different hairs were found on 10-year-old Amy Mihaljevic’s body when it was discovered in Ashland County over three decades ago. Mihaljevic was a 10-year-old elementary school student who was kidnapped from a Bay Village shopping center on Oct. 27, 1989. Her body was discovered in a remote field of Ruggles Township in […]
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Delaware peak leads to interesting drive through Appalachia
A thousand miles of contemptuous travel through the Keystone State to Ebright Azimuth, the highpoint of Delaware, started on March 19, 2017. It was midnight, but I was far from falling asleep. The cellphone alarm on my square end table was set for 3 a.m. Needed rest for the drive, but was too excited. Not […]
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Eagle Mountain, Minnesota: Taking a 10 year old to the frozen tundra
Where’s that line, of child endangerment versus providing your offspring with an unbelievable adventure that many will never get to experience? If you take your child mountain climbing, and something goes wrong, if the child gets hurt or something even worse, should you be charged with child endangerment? With every peak, there are records attached […]
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Where’s Ben? Part IV: Accomplice and mystery letter
Part IV explores the accomplice scenarios if something bad did happen to Brubaker and a mystery letter sent to the sheriff’s office. ASHLAND — Ben Brubaker went missing in October of 2005 from Ashland County and there’s been no trace of him since. Until recently, little was known about his disappearance. This series explores new […]
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Ashland man conquers one of USA’s 5 toughest peaks
The Timberline Lodge rose to fame in the opening scene of Stanley Kubrick’s, “The Shining.” No other mountain lodge could capture the ominous and murderous feeling of elevator doors full of blood, slowly opening and spilling down the hallway. Behind Timberline was Mt. Hood, the highest point in Oregon, a volcano of death glaring at […]
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Failure on a high peak: The Kansas Saga
Inside “the trough,” looking up at the rock scramble, looking down at death, looking up, looking down — for 15 minutes. The route was nothing I hadn’t completed before — and that was the problem — it was the same mountain. Where was my escape? Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) in Colorado […]
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Ashland’s Fox scales Wyoming’s highest peak amid controversy
We start the series with my hardest climb to date that left me hated by half of the highpointing community: Gannett Peak, Wyoming. It took days of hiking with a 50-pound pack, over mountain passes of 11,000 feet, to even get to Base Camp II. You start the expedition in shorts and a T-shirt, and […]
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Ashland man’s path to mountaineering got off to a rocky start
ASHLAND — I became a mountaineer kind of by accident. My cellmate and I were at a cowboy wedding at an abandoned ghost town used for Wild West movies outside of Santa Fe in 2012. We were trying to figure out what to do between nuptial events in the alcoholic desert of northern New Mexico […]
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Where’s Ben? 12 years later, few answers to Ashland man’s disappearance
ASHLAND — If you ask around Ashland, Benjamin Brubaker isn’t missing. He was murdered and his body was burned in a tire fire in Polk, Ohio. “That is the predominant (story) of the rumor mill,” said Det. Lt. Scott Smart of the Ashland County Sheriff’s Office, the detective assigned to the case. “But there’s nothing […]