An area man is suing the state Department of Motor Vehicles after it rejected his application to receive a driver’s license. Jeffery L. Bellomo has filed suit in state Supreme Court in Mayville asking the court to annul the Motor Vehicles Department’s denial of Bellomo’s request to ...

After two attempts, legislation has passed the state Senate that would require a police officer responding to a domestic violence to take temporary custody of firearms readily visible in the home. S.1985 has not yet passed the state Assembly, but was passed by a 37-20 vote in the state ...

I love to grill, and barbecue, and I have devoted my career to outdoor cooking for more than two decades. In that time, I’ve seen a lot of mistakes, and people tend to make them over and over. So I put together a list of the biggest grilling don’ts and how to avoid them. Print this list ...

In a couple days from now, the summer season unofficially begins, with celebrations of parades, picnics, ballgames, fireworks, with family and friends, all on a day which has special meaning to our country. It is the day set aside to celebrate those who fell in defense of this nation. In two ...

This is a first for me. I’ve never brought my work and settled into a coffee shop before, but I’ve seen the young adults in corners of plenty of Starbucks with their computers and their headsets on. Today, I’m one of them. It’s enough to make me feel thirty again. I decided to get the ...

Dream was the word I associated with exercise machines in the old days. Not the dream of ownership, but the dream of possibility. The machine promised the ultimate transformation. I was going to become the new me. Now, at my advanced age with dashed dreams, I am giving up. I decided that this ...