Tom Stafford
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Tom Stafford has worked at the News-Sun and lived in Springfield for 30 years, covering most of the newsroom beats. For 28 years he has written a weekly feature column and for about 15 years has explored the area's history in a weekly feature called Looking Back. A graduate of Wittenberg University, his personal interests include playing music, in-line skating on area bike trails and reading.
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Springfield legend Winters dies at 87
Jonathan Winters, the Springfield-raised comic genius who once told his wife he’d come back to Ohio and sell farm equipment if his comedy career in New York didn’t pan out, has died. Winters, 87, died Thursday evening of natural causes at his home in Montecito, Calif., long-time family friend Joe ...
Bacteria strains a health risk
Powerful strains of bacteria have developed resistance to antibiotics, causing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to sound an alarm this week and one Ohio expert to call it “one of the most serious public health issues of our time.” The CRE bacteria have developed resistance to carbopenem antibiotics, ...
Children political pawns in adoption ban
Fifteen years ago, a sudden shift in Chinese government policy led Ken and Karen Elder to change their plans at the last minute and adopt a Russian child. It’s now difficult for them to imagine what their daughter Rachel’s life would have been like had they not been able to ...
Local man shot, killed in theater shooting
In the chaos of one of the largest mass shootings in U.S. history, one local woman’s boyfriend was killed at a Colorado movie theater. The boyfriend shielded her. The woman suffered a bullet wound to the leg while her brother escaped physically unharmed. Siblings Samantha and Nick Yowler — both ...
Grain storage bins help boost farmers’ profits
Area farmers are building larger metal grain bins along country roads faster than ever to earn thousands of dollars more if they store their crop rather than sell it at the harvest.For example, if a farmer has a 100,000-bushel grain bin and can make 50 additional cents on each bushel ...
The Tommy Ray Band: A big band sound with lots of local talent
Music goes on year round, of course.But you can’t have the holidays without it, particularly New Years’ Eve.And as New Year’s Eve of 1969 and the 16th annual Fireman’s Ball approached, Local 333 of the International Association of Fire Fighters decided to keep their expenses down by going with local ...
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