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By Hallie Sikes • Many people will begin the new year with grand resolutions for exercise, healthy eating or other major lifestyle changes. As a physical therapist of 14 years, I think all of those are great ideas. Sometimes people succeed in carrying through with...

By Bob Tedder • Metro Books, a New York publishing firm under the rubric of Visual Reference Guides, produces a series of informative books whose titles cover a wide range of subject matter. Each book explores one topic in succinct but comprehensive detail using a...

By Bob Tedder • If you’re not particularly peculiar about a book’s format, reading a volume consisting of interviews plucked from print periodicals doesn’t sound odd at all. On the other hand, if you’re one of those peculiar folks whose reading  consists only of...

Mark Scott, executive director of Market MontGOmery Chamber & Tourism, was channeling “Weird Al” Yankovic this week and came up with a couple of localized versions of Christmas classics. Here's Mark's version of "Jingle Bells": Jingle Bells, OHV Trails Driving...

By Bob Tedder • History books may justifiably be called time machines. From a subject matter standpoint, “Moyers: Report From Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787” certainly fits this description. Furthermore, its publication date, 1987, warrants a...

By Bob Tedder • Some books are pretty interesting and others are interestingly pretty.  “Robots, Spaceships & Other Tin Toys: The Teruhisa Kitahara Collection” is both! This book provides a great opportunity for the peripatetic reviewer to wander at will...

By Mark Scott, executive director of Market MontGOmery Chamber & Tourism • Most of Montgomery County dodged a bullet with the recent winter storm, but it was a serious event for those who did lose power, had a wreck or downed trees that caused damage to homes or...

By Mark Scott, executive director of Market MontGOmery Chamber & Tourism • Touch a hot stove and the result is forever etched in your memory. See a particularly beautiful sunset and you’ll remember it forever. Smell a skunk and you’ll never forget it. You can...

By Bob Tedder • In determining the efficacy of Bevin Alexander’s “How Hitler Could Have Won World War II: The Fatal Errors That Led to Nazi Defeat,” the potential reader must submit to a one-question, multiple-choice quiz. As the test is subjective, honesty is...

By Bob Tedder • While recently rummaging around in a Norton Edition of Classical Literature I came across excerpts from many old and ancient friends. The Greeks, in particular, were quite familiar, evoking many enjoyable memories spent with Homer and the guys. OK, OK,...

By Mark Scott, executive director of Market MontGOmery Chamber & Tourism • Visit any of the businesses listed below on Saturday (Nov. 24) to register for a $500 drawing. You can register only once per business, but you can register at as many different businesses...