Swimming is more than just staring at a black line on the bottom of the pool. While that is a good part of what we do, there’s a lot more fun that happens as well. As popular challenges and trends ...

MARIETTA – It’s the time of year for budget scrutiny in towns across the nation and those in Washington County are among the rest looking at what services they can provide to their constituents.

If you need to catch up on your swimming because you have been away from pool access or you have progressed to a level where you want to challenge yourself with a 5,000-meter swim workout, here is a ...

BROOKLYN, MI - As children emerged from two long, black tubes, encountering a pool of mud, Katie Knauer shouted nonstop encouragement. "Good job, buddy. You got it. Come on," she said as a boy ...

Mark Mattox, 34, of Kalamazoo, gives instruction to the Kalamazoo Area Croc U.S. Masters Swimming Group at the Kik Pool in downtown Kalamazoo. KALAMAZOO, MI -- At 5:30 in the morning, even in the ...

In search of cures for their ailments, health pilgrims travel to expensive spas in the U.S., Europe and other parts of the world for hot water treatments that might be 1 percent science and 99 percent ...

If your awareness of the Erie Canal stops at the folk song you learned in grade school, then you, too, will be surprised to know this: The canal is not a poker-straight channel. No. It meanders ...

The Belkin family has a pool in the backyard of their Westerleigh home, but they choose to spend their summer days at the Hillside Swim Club in Travis. "We'd rather come here," confided Susan Belkin ...