Happy Thanksgiving everyone from your Highland County Press sports editor.
    I love turkey day. Besides Super Bowl Sunday, and the start of March Madness, it is my favorite day of the year.

Damp weather earlier last week slowed harvest progress but farmers returned to the fields later in the week. While weather always impacts harvest progress, this year farmers have been faced with some unusual challenges that have slowed harvest.

The 1965 SCOL football season was just around the corner. Coach Bill Atsalis was back at Hillsboro High School for his seventh year. He had taken the Indians from a perennial doormat to a contending team. But this season might be different. While the boys had, according to Atsalis, “a fine mental attitude,” they were small and inexperienced.

How soon we forget.
    Americans seem to enjoy, again and again, proving George Santayana’s maxim that “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

Christmas Bazaar  
    Don’t miss the annual Christmas Bazaar on Friday, Dec. 4 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Highland County Senior Center.

The summer of 2009 was the season of restoration for the renowned 1885 Koehnken & Grimm pipe organ in historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Hillsboro.

Stephen D. Iseman, Ph.D., a professor celebrated for combining academic training with hands-on career preparation, was awarded the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) 2009 Outstanding Educator of the Year Award at the PRSA 2009 International Conference in San Diego.

Stephen D. Iseman, Ph.D., a professor celebrated for combining academic training with hands-on career preparation, was awarded the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) 2009 Outstanding Educator of the Year Award at the PRSA 2009 International Conference in San Diego.

The Highland County Board of Elections may soon reduce its hours of operation from 32.5 hours per week to 30 hours per week.