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PALOMINAS, Ariz. — David Charles Sturges, 70, of Palominas, formerly of Terryville, passed away at home on December 8, 2021.

Touting their sport as the fastest-growing pastime in America, pickleball enthusiasts approach newcomers with a missionary zeal. “I don’t think I’ve ever met somebody who has tried it and not liked it,” said Holly Bireley of Hamilton, who started playing pickleball five years ago at the invitation of a friend and now plays in national tournaments. Hamilton ranks as one of the hotbeds of pickleball in the region, but the sport has spread to Kendallville, Auburn, Angola, Albion and Garrett. Invented in 1965, the sport could count only 39 known places to play in 2003, but by ...

Why Did Britain Invade French Madagascar in World War II? British forces were compelled to invade the island off the coast of East Africa amid fears of a Japanese invasion. Here's What You Need to Know: Churchill called the campaign for Madagascar “our first large-scale amphibious operation since the Dardanelles.” “The first I saw of Madagascar and the last after adventurous months ashore was the eerie color of the soil,” a British novelist turned security sergeant would write a decade later.  “It gave to the sky, the vegetation, and the people a strangeness, even a deathliness wh...