WILKES-BARRE – With ceremony rooted in traditions centuries old, the 109th Field Artillery welcomed its new commanding officer and said goodbye to its former at the National Guard Armory on Sunday. Lt ...
Woody Mathna deserves to be happy, and he couldn’t be happy without serving. When I was a reporter for The Journal a thousand years ago, I once was assigned to write a primer on running for office. It ...
He was born March 27, 1913, in Gibsonburg, Ohio, and had been a Lorain resident for the past 69 years. Mathna served as a member of the Ohio National Guard from 1933-1934. He was employed in the Line ...
WILKES-BARRE – With ceremony rooted in traditions centuries old, the 109th Field Artillery welcomed its new commanding officer and said goodbye to its former leader at the National Guard Armory on ...