Pat Flory News Today

TWO York residents have won a housing association’s national Neighbour of the Year award - thanks to nominations from their local community.

I am sitting at the bar of Robert’s Western World in Nashville, Tennessee, drinking a Miller High Life and listening to a band play “Rhinestone Cowboy.”  Though I feel like I’ve been teleported here, it was actually a slog: We left State College at 9 a.m. a couple of Fridays ago and pulled into Music City at 10 p.m. Central time – with stops, a 14-hour drive. The “we” here is me and my buddy Michael Yonchenko. And when I say buddy: We’ve been friends for 50 years.  Michael’s...