By Melissa Wagoner It was forbidden love – not farming – that was on Whitney Davis’s mind the first time she noticed the old wooden grain elevator outside Pratum. “I had met my high school sweetheart, Cody Glennie, my sophomore year,” Davis – who graduated from Silverton High School in 2010 – said. “He grew up in Pratum, just a stone’s throw […]
By Melissa Wagoner It may not look like much, but this year the railway bridge over Silver Creek in Silverton – otherwise known as MP 10.6 or simply the Silver Creek Bridge – will turn 100 years old. Built in 1923 by the American Bridge Company, a company that – founded in 1900 in Pennsylvania – not only pioneered the […]
By Brenna Wiegand Twenty years ago, Pastor Stan Myers, his wife Mindy and their three children went to Africa, living as Christian missionaries for 2 1/2 years. “There was a tremendous need for training for pastors but at the time we weren’t prepared to meet that need; I wasn’t mature or experienced enough,” Stan Myers said. The desire to return […]
By Kristine Thomas For Mark and Kelley Recker, this is their story about a miracle. They know people may question or doubt or dismiss what they believe. They understand it is human nature to search for answers to understand what is unexplainable. But what others think doesn’t matter, because they know what transpired between them is a genuine, unconditional and […]
Pratum Elementary School eighth-grade student Elise Agenbroad no longer feels alone in the world. During the summer of 2010, Elise went to an amputee camp in Ohio, a burn victims’ camp in Colorado and an International Firefighters camp in Washington D.C.
When autumn arrives in the peaceful hamlet of Pratum, a curious cast of characters shows up around town, to the surprise and amusement of residents and passersby.
Grover Welty remembers when Pratum was quite the going concern. When he lived there in the 1930s and attended the two-room schoolhouse, the town had a post office, a grocery store – even a tennis court.
Mark Twain Middle School eighth-grade student Alex Couraud won first-place in the Masonic Speech Contest, Riley Johnston of Pratum took second-place and Josh Anderson of Scotts Mills earned third-place. Eighth-grade students – one student from each outlying school and three students from Mark Twain – gave a speech on how does being a volunteer benefit the student and their community. […]
