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Regional weekend in baseball, and state tournament in softball highlight the sports week...and the school year draws to a close with time for reflection on what we've seen, heard, and what we might yet see over the next ten days.  The last, and best, of the OHSAA state tournaments is at the doorstep.

It’s a well-recognized tune, one of the most famous in America, but for the sake of fact…some words about a “national” tune not written by John Phillip Sousa, but one he admitted that he liked as much as his own. A holiday tribute in today's Press Pros.