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FROMONLINE | 2013-10-16

For the love of s’ghettiColumn SummarySpaghetti is one of those dishes that unless you open a can, you just can’t make a small serving. Cooking and serving spaghetti means a big meal, with big leftovers, and the flavor just gets better.One of the first pre-toddler foods we give our children is spaghetti with tomato sauce. The texture is loved by those little, pasta squeezing hands. A handful...

wooster plan

The City of Wooster wants to know what residents think – and the administration is finding all kinds of ways to solicit the information. All that input will be reviewed and considered as the city reviews and possibly revises its Comprehensive Plan, a policy document that will help guide future growth in the community. It will provide a snapshot of Wooster in 2013, then will move on to address...

Healing at Nickel Mines

Summary: Marie Roberts Monville experienced the unthinkable when police arrived at her door on a beautiful October morning seven years ago to deliver some shocking and devastating news. Before the day had ended, Monville had experienced the kind of forgiveness she'd never thought was possible. On Saturday, Oct. 26 at 6 pm, she will share her story at the Perry Reese Community Center in Berlin...

ATH: A snow day can be a productive day

Summary: The kids are home for a snow day. Tackle a few home improvement projects together to keep them busy and lighten your load. The news of a snow day elicits shrieks of joy from students while parents are left with the thankless job of coming up with a way to keep them busy all day. Rather than send them off to play put them to work doing fun home improvement jobs that will keep them out of...

ATH: Rodent proof the home

Summary: Rodents like mice and rats can make their way into your home as temperatures drop. Keeping them from getting in is the best way to avoid infestation. If they do get in, there a several ways to remove them. Cooler temperatures are finally on the way and that means outdoor rodents and vermin will be looking for a warm place to spend the winter. Unfortunately your home is rather inviting...

ATH: Cooking with the seasonal cranberry

Summary: Cranberries are high in vitamin C and fiber and with only 47 calories per cup; they are a perfect addition to a healthy diet. Great in sweet and savory dishes, the cranberry is one of nature’s most under used fruits. Available fresh, frozen and dried, cranberries are one of fall’s perfect fruits. Stop and think for a moment all the wonderful produce in season in the fall. Definitely a...

ATH: Winter home improvement

Summary: Winter is the ideal time to take on indoor home improvement projects that you never tackled over the summer. When it comes to remodeling projects in your home consider winter an ideal time to make improvements. Contractors are busier in the warmer months of the year with larger outdoor projects. Scheduling indoor work is easier in the winter when workers have time for drywall repair,...

ATH: Keeping your car fuel efficient

Summary: Keeping your car running at its optimum fuel efficiency is more important than ever as we watch gas process get higher and higher. Common sense and some advice from Matt Price of Zeigler Tire will keep you on the road with fewer stops at the pump. The reality is gas is hovering around $4 a gallon. It’s an ugly truth and an expensive one but in order to continue to get to work, drop of...

ATH: Fruitcake, the misunderstood holiday treat

I think fruit cake gets a bad rap at Christmas each year. With jokes about using the cakes as science projects or as mortar when building a log cabin it’s amazing we still make them. We do still make them but according to a survey done by The New York Times, only 19% of us eat them. The rest of them, according to the survey, we give away, use as doorstops or throw away. The fruit cake has been...

ATH: Choosing a Christmas tree

When choosing a tree for Christmas this year consider what works best for you. With a choice between cut, live or artificial, an argument can be made for each. Never say you are too busy to deal with a tree this year. Perhaps you just need to downsize a bit. Fake trees were first seen in the U.S. in 1913 through The Sears Roebuck catalog. Originally developed in Germany during a period of great...