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DELPHOS — Columbus Grove had five runners finish among the top 11 overall in securing the girls championship Saturday at the Blue Jay Invitational at Stadium Park.
Alyssa Ellerbrock (third), Erin Downing (sixth), Leanndra Price (seventh), Taylor Ellerbrock (10th) and Sydney Ellerbrock (11th) helped the Bulldogs finish with 25 team points once those running as individuals were removed from the calculations.
Lincolnview (75 points) finished second followed by New Bremen (87) and Van Wert (122) in the 11-team event.

The level of historical antipathy in this country is only surpassed by the level of constitutional antipathy. And both have been on public display the last few weeks.
Leftists have tried to whitewash history for years, perhaps trying to cover up the Democratic Party’s complicity in racism, racial terrorism and slavery.
Now, they are using the tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia — for which they were equally responsible for the violence — as an excuse to tear down monuments they do not understand.

TAMPA, Fla. — Rookie quarterback DeShone Kizer made his first start in the Cleveland Browns’ 13-9 preseason win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Saturday night.
Playing the entire first half after a pregame downpour, Kizer completed 6 of 18 passes for 93 yards and an interception. Browns coach Hue Jackson named Kizer as the starter earlier in the week after watching him develop over the past month.

FRANKLIN (AP) — Robert E. Lee never fought a battle in Ohio during the Civil War. But he’s part of one now.
A roadside marker honoring the Confederate general has swept a small city into the heated conflict over Confederate monuments, in the aftermath of the deadly violence triggered by a white supremacist rally this month called to protest the planned removal of a Lee statue in his home state.

President Trump sabotaged himself yet again this week.
He totally wasted about 95 percent of the generally favorable media coverage and bipartisan huzzahs he got for his Afghanistan policy speech on Monday night.
He could have basked in the Afghan afterglow all week long and hit a few hundred balls on the practice range.
But instead by Tuesday night he was in Phoenix and up to his old dumb tricks, bashing Arizona’s Republican senators John McCain and Jeff Flake, rehashing what he said about Charlottesville and throwing old and new spitballs at the fake media.

Why do you hate America? The United States has reached a crossroads. We can continue down the same path as we have for the past decades and end up like Venezuela, because we are headed in that direction. Or we can get behind our president and find our way out of this hate filled attitude.
There is so much hate for our president that I hardly know where to start. As soon as he says or does anything he is set upon and criticized. If he says something good, it was not soon enough or was insincere. There is so much hate it is beyond all reason.

COLDWATER — The top 100 members of the PBA money list were invited to the PBA Xtra Frame Kenn-Feld Group Classic this weekend at Pla-Mor Lanes.
The 96 bowlers who entered play Saturday were divided into three squads of 32. Each of the competitors rolled eight games, one on each of the pairs of lanes at the center. The top 32 earned the right to return this morning at 10 am for the Cashers round.

Results of a variety of polls suggest that the public approval ratings of the national media coverage are at historic lows. With all the technology, experience and lessons of the past, how did this come to be?
Sensationalism by design is slammed at our fears. Accuracy pushed aside, all to grab our weaknesses. Fears of being in pain, of being treated unfairly, of being alone, or embarrassed. Scared of making errors, and being separated from our friends and loved ones. All of which are serious, and often times sorrowful circumstances in our lives

oes the president’s announced policy on Afghanistan make sense? To decide, let’s look at how a national security professional would deconstruct Trump’s Aug. 21 speech.
A serious national security assessment starts by reviewing what interests you’re trying to protect. It doesn’t necessarily start with what’s already been spent and how many lives have been sacrificed. In the brutal calculus of war and peace, those are sunk costs. Lives lost can be honored. They don’t come back.

Teachers, coaches, parents and administrators each want the same thing as the school year begins: the best educational experience possible for students.
Reaching that nirvana isn’t always an easy thing. Any parent who is completely honest with herself or himself will admit there comes a time when they just want to give an educator a piece of their mind.
Does that sound nasty?
It doesn’t have to be. In fact, it shouldn’t be.