If you’ve never heard of Aerial Port, you’re not alone. It’s the military’s equivalent for an air terminal and serves essentially the same functions as the terminals at Port Columbus or Cleveland Hopkins airports. They are all tasked with moving passengers and cargo through the air. The key difference is that the cargo and passengers […]
John Makley, correspondent
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179th loadmasters: Genuine load “masters”
MANSFIELD, Ohio–“Weight and balance” is how Tech Sgt. Bryan Thompson of Mount Vernon, Ohio described his job as a loadmaster. On a frigid February morning, I was speaking with six of the 17 certified loadmasters with the 164th Airlift Squadron as they prepared for a training flight. The 164th is part of the 179th Operations […]
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Pending natural gas pipeline a concern for local landowners
A classroom at the Kehoe Center in Shelby was filled to capacity Wednesday night as concerned landowners in the path of a proposed natural gas pipeline listened to lawyers from Goldman & Braunstein, LLP speak about the issues they faced. The proposed pipeline, known as the Rover Pipeline, would run 800 miles from Southeastern Ohio […]
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Notes from a dirty, old gardener: Life Beyond Knockouts
There it was laid out before me, 13 acres of roses with over 400 different varieties, and over 11,000 individual rose bushes. It was the Columbus Park of Roses. Located in Whetstone Park on the north side of Columbus, it is one of the largest public rose gardens in the United States. Though I had […]