Date archive: July 2016

Learning the lesson of don’ts on my first day of kindergarten

TERRY MOSHER This is me in 1945 standing alongside Route 16. I’m on the edge of our lawn at the house where I spent my first 14 years in Portville, NY. ...

The front-line Moshers as they looked in 2000.

FROM THE LEFT, RAY MOSHER, DAVID MOSHER, MINERVA MOSHER DEAN, RON MOSHER, TERRY MOSHER This is the front line of the Mosher extended family. Minerva Mosher Dean died in ...

D.B. Cooper disguised as me, and my sister Minerva, on a ferry to Seattle back in the day

TERRY MOSHER AND MINERVA MOSHER DEAN This is really D.B. Cooper disguised as Terry Mosher. Picture was taken sometime in the 1980s when my sister Minerva visited from Portville, NY. We ...

Seabreeze Beach showed skin color didn’t matter when it came right down to it

TERRY MOSHER SEABREEZE DANCERS The terrible injustice of slavery and segregation and the Jim Crow laws meant for a long time that blacks could not go to the plentiful and beautiful beaches ...

The America I live in is the greatest, and I’m thrilled to be here

TERRY MOSHER Before I shut it down this Friday night, I just want to say we live in the greatest country in the world and for that I’m proud and happy ...

Bringing the forgotten back is what I do, although I don’t really know why I like to do it

TERRY MOSHER Editor’s Note: This column was written in May of 2011 for the print edition of the Sports Paper, but I think it’s interesting and am repeating it here. Hope ...

Oops! “Easy” Ed Perdue also was one of the founders of the Bremerton Athletic Roundtable

EASY ED PERDUE WITH HIS EVER-PRESENT PIPE By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper How could I forget “Easy” Ed Perdue? But I did. When I mentioned in a recent column on the ...

Our much beloved Sophie left us today and while she is now pain free, we are not

TERRY MOSHER SOPHIE MOSHER, RIP, JULY 28, 2016 We had to do the unthinkable today and have our beloved Sophie – a Shih Tzu – put down and if you ...

Trump is no idiot (well, yes, he is), but is sly like a slippery fox and continues to grab headlines for it

TERRY MOSHER Donald Trump isn’t nuts. He knows what he’s doing. He’s dividing and conquering as he slashes and burns old traditional campaign methods with outrageous comments. In short, the ...

Brother Ron Mosher will finally be inducted into his school’s Hall of Fame

TERRY MOSHER Ron Mosher (top) celebrating with his Cuba =(NY) football team an undefeated season After 64 years, my second oldest brother, Ron Mosher, will be inducted into the Portville Central ...

Few people play sports with the flair that Griffey did

TERRY MOSHER KEN GRIFFEY JR. I covered Ken Griffey Jr. when he first was chosen (No. 1 overall) in the 1987 June Amateur Draft by the Seattle Mariners and when he ...

The greatest country in the world is being thrashed by a man who is extremely disingenuous and insecure

TERRY MOSHER I don’t know why it’s obvious to some of us and not others why Donald Trump is a very dangerous man. It keeps me up at night worrying that ...

He is the Prince of Darkness who will crush out all the light, all the good, if allowed

TERRY MOSHER He is the Prince of Darkness, the Huckster, the con man, the Orange is the latest Black, the leader of the hateful parade, the two-bit dictator in waiting, ...

Cruz was right to rebuff the Huckster; if you don’t have the courage to stand up, what do you have?

TERRY MOSHER I don’t like Ted Cruz. He’s a far right Tea Party extremist who is out of touch with real life. I don’t know how he got elected, but they sometimes ...

Going back to the good ol’ days to escape from the crush of the bad ol’ days

TERRY MOSHER As I get closer to the end of the road – and the world seems closer to the end, especially if Putin’s friend gets elected here ‑ I ...

Rise of the Huckster is reminiscent of a more horrible time

TERRY MOSHER Sometimes I think that I have lived way past my expiration date and need to get out of here before I am explode from within. The reason I ...

The boil over this week steams into Turkey, too

TERRY MOSHER The world continues to boil over. The Huckster picks a vice president running mate who would if he could send this country back to biblical times with women being ...

Leave All-Star Game as it is, and Deflategate is much ado about nothing

TERRY MOSHER DAVE ORTIZ I have heard complains that baseball is doing the All-Star Game all wrong, that giving the league that wins the game home field advantage in the best of ...

Sister’s birthday, escorting back to spiritual world and Billie’s Strange Fruit in a dangerous world

TERRY MOSHER BILLIE HOLIDAY Today (July 9) marks my late sister Minerva’s 87th birthday. It has been five-plus years now since she left this earth and I still miss ...

Cruz leading an unexpected home run barrage from the Mariners

TERRY MOSHER NELSON CRUZ What is happening with the Seattle Mariners that they are upsetting the contact-hitting, run and play defense plan that new general manager Jerry Dipoto put in ...