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Tom Stafford

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E-mail Tom Stafford at tstafford@coxohio.com
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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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Both sides in civil rights battle said the other aided Communism

7:05 PM Sunday, February 5, 2012

If the name Walter White means anything to people these days, it’s connected with the lead character in the cable television show “Breaking Bad.

We like the sense that things ultimately will add up

4:29 PM Saturday, February 4, 2012

1. Write any three-digit number. (I’m taking 100.)

2. Switch the digits around to create a second number.

Rudd’s dream inspired by 'equality before the altar'

4:19 PM Saturday, February 4, 2012

Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t the only man who dreamed of equality.

In the Springfield of 1886, one-time Kentucky slave and by then printer and editor Daniel Rudd dreamed of rallying people to the cause by tapping into the same moral power King would use in the next century.

Surgeon documents demolition of building

10:22 PM Wednesday, February 1, 2012

In taking nearly 700 photos of the Arcue Building’s demolition, the most important lens John Dobson used wasn’t attached to either of his cameras.

Parents cope with second heart transplant in their family

10:07 PM Monday, January 30, 2012

James and Phyllis Ryder learned about the ups and downs of heart transplant surgery when their late daughter, Sabrina, had it the 1990s.

Looking Back: Man survived plane crash he can’t remember

8:30 AM Monday, January 30, 2012

In Bill Zugelder’s defense, etiquette has yet to devise a subtle way to interrupt a conversation and say, “Yes, I once was catapulted from a plane in midair and woke up in the mud of a farm field bleeding, with broken bones, listening to the grunts of pigs.

Illness won’t halt service or smile

7:40 PM Saturday, January 28, 2012

My friend is ill.

Ill in the way that most in my line of work, and probably yours, would call in sick.

Counties may get financial leeway

10:27 PM Friday, January 27, 2012

SPRINGFIELD — The Ohio Legislature last year increased the amount of goods and services townships and villages can buy without formal bids to $50,000.

Your chance to see St. Valentine’s massacre guns

8:45 AM Friday, January 27, 2012

If you want to get your valentine the same lame flowers and chocolate again this year, have at it.

Guys and gals who want to treat their darlings to something special will take them to the Heritage Center of Clark County at 2 p.

Historical documents detail life of poor in 1820s Clark County

8:26 AM Monday, January 23, 2012

How will we care for poor children?

How will we prepare them not to become burdens to society but productive members of the next generation?

And how do we do so without breaking a drum tight government budget?

For Clark County residents of the 1820s and 1830s, the answer was neither orphanages nor foster care.

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