Bridges Magazine

Welcome to Bridges Magazine…

your connection to the people, places and things that make our Ohio River community unique. In reading our magazine, our hope is that we all identify the ways our lives are interconnected - through our neighborhoods, work, churches and businesses; identify how each person's path intersects; and realize how our corner of the world affects the bigger picture and vice versa. So, take some time to read Bridges and appreciate all our communities have to offer. Find your connection.

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Christmas Décor Galore!

It seems that “decking the halls” isn’t quite enough for Dave and Sue Stultz when it comes to adorning their Greenup, Ky., home for the holiday season. They “deck” not only the halls, but also the living room, dining room, kitchen and just about every other room in their recently constructed house [...]

Reining in Rainer

Tim O’Toole was concentrating on his breathing. He carried a pack more than a third of his body weight and had to will himself to take another step. He was thousands of feet above sea level in a land of ice, avalanches and earthquakes, and he began to wonder if he was [...]

Head Turning Styles

The hottest new hair trends have hit our area, and talented stylists at local salons are embracing them with gusto. These hair artists are collaborating with their clients to create dramatic, eye-popping looks – some for everyday wear and others for special occasions or events. Fun with Feathers Although feathers were proudly [...]

Trip to Italy

In the weeks leading up to my 10-day trip to Italy this past summer, I grew increasingly excited about the wonders of Rome and Tuscany that my favorite travel partner and I would encounter.
It wasn’t the ancient ruins or the fields of sunflowers or the artistic masterpieces that had me so stoked. It was the food.
In my opinion, Italian food should be the eighth wonder of the world – right up there on the list with Rome’s Colosseum. The variety of pasta alone is magnifico. There’s spaghetti, fettucini, ravioli, tortellini, fusilli, and their close relative, gnocchi. And those are just ones that end in the letter i! There are literally hundreds more, in all shapes and sizes, with a seemingly endless array of sauce options. My mouth was watering months before
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Divine Savings

Even as a coupon novice posting her largest savings proudly on the refrigerator door, the above phrase handed to me upon entering Holy Family Church seemed more geometric than grocery-related. In this Ashland, Ky., church, 25 women are making an air-conditioned investment in today’s hottest savings trend – extreme couponing – thanks to a course titled, “The Coupon Course: Teaching You the Path from Spending to Saving for Beginners” with Erica Stock Lee, MBA. Extreme couponing has exploded into households via television, magazines, and blogs as a way to rack up significant savings on necessities previously thought nonnegotiable. Philanthropic systems have also taken note of this buzz-worthy opportunity, uniting donors to clip and give at little to no cost. So, newly equipped with filing systems, grocery circulars and a stack of preselected coupons – it seems if Read More...

Decorations Everywhere

Just say the words “Garden Club” and most of us instantly get a picture of ladies wearing floppy straw hats and heavy gloves, using trowels to dig in the earth. But when the ladies (and coincidentally, men, too) of eight southeastern Ohio garden clubs descend on the lodge of Shawnee State Resort Lodge and Conference Center in West Portsmouth, Ohio, this November, they won’t be armed with digging tools, but rather, hot glue guns, wire, spools of ribbon and nearly 26,000 lights as they work to transform two floors of space into a Christmas wonderland. They’ve volunteered to deck out the lodge in its best holiday finery for the past 20 years for two simple reasons – they love Christmas and they love their community. “The first few hours can be a bit harry-scary, but it calms down and the serious work gets under way,” said Linda Warfield, who has been a member of the Read More...