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Teachers preserve history of schools in new book

Summary: Teachers turned authors detail the history of Midvale’s Schools in a new book. Longtime Midvale Elementary teachers Brenda Stafford and Candace Wilson have authored a new book that details a pictorial history of the community’s schools. Mine-ding Midvale’s School: The Tradition Lives On is the third in a series of books the duo penned about the mining town named for the mid-point...

Fall Walking Challenge: Journey to Middle Earth

Summary: The Dover Public Library has come up with a fun and creative way to keep residents moving as the fall season begins. “Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea” From Bilbo’s Walking Song by J.R.R. Tolkien The Dover Public Library invites residents of all ages to participate in the Fit for Fall Walking...

AAUW/Kiwanis Used Book Sale

Even though the once-a-year Wayne County Fair has paced, you may still want to visit our local fairgrounds. On September 25 – 28 the annual AAUW/Kiwanis Used Book Sale will take place in Buss Hall from 9 a.m. – 8 p.m. on Wednesday through Friday and 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. on Saturday. American Association of University Women (AAUW) Book Sale co-chair Gail Carter, along with Cathy Stone,...

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Hope is the essence of life itself! Without hope, life would be pointless and meaningless. We witnessed one of the greatest moments of hope just this past May, when three women emerged from a house of horrors after 10 years of torture in Cleveland. The belief that things will get better as time goes on has sustained mankind since the birth of humanity. The nature of hope itself has been a...
Hope for tomorrow begins today

Hope for tomorrow begins today

Hope is the essence of life itself! Without hope, life would be pointless and meaningless. We witnessed one of the greatest moments of hope just this past May, when three women emerged from a house of horrors after 10 years of torture in Cleveland. The belief that things will get better as time goes on has sustained mankind since the birth of humanity. The nature of hope itself has been a...
Addressing pet issues through mediation

Addressing pet issues through mediation

Disagreements about pets can quickly escalate and lead to litigation. Increasingly, people have been turning to mediation to resolve these issues. In mediation, a neutral party guides discussions between disputing parties so that both sides can share their points of view and work together to create acceptable solutions. This article provides some examples of instances in which mediation can prove...
Please meet me at the fair

Please meet me at the fair

I’m not sure how many times I went to the county fair as a child, but probably not many. I did go to Disneyworld twice. Once when I was too young to remember anything, except by seeing the photographs of me in my red-plaid, bell bottom pants standing with my grandma Cipollone in her knee length sweater outside an eat stand munching on cotton candy. The other time was with my dad when I was...

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I’m not sure how many times I went to the county fair as a child, but probably not many. I did go to Disneyworld twice. Once when I was too young to remember anything, except by seeing the photographs of me in my red-plaid, bell bottom pants standing with my grandma Cipollone in her knee length sweater outside an eat stand munching on cotton candy. The other time was with my dad when I was...
Grandmas (and grandpas) in waiting

Grandmas (and grandpas) in waiting

I was amused at the mini-huff raised when Great-Grandmother Elizabeth (otherwise known as Queen of England) seemed anxious to be off for her summer holiday at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Some of the press reports spun that to imply she was royally aloof about the arrival of a new heir in line for the throne, but the actual video of the question by a schoolgirl was simply a casual exchange that I...

The fall hawk watching season is almost here

The middle of September marks the beginning of the most anticipated time of year for many hawk watchers around the country. Hawk watchers are not always bird watchers. That is to say that there are folks who take their entire vacation every year to watch hawks at Hawk Mountain, Hawk Ridge, or any of the other top locations but may not be particularly interested in other kinds of bird...