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Local farmers offer sustainable choices for the Thanksgiving turkey

Local farmers offer sustainable choices for the Thanksgiving turkey

Turkey graces the table of many homes at Thanksgiving each year. About 99 percent of those turkeys are raised on a factory farm. Americans will eat nearly 48 million turkeys for Thanksgiving, according to the National Turkey Federation. Factory-farmed turkeys are hatched in incubators and after only a few days, part of their upper beaks are removed with a heated blade without the use of...

10/28/13 Heritage ohio coming to downtown Millersburg

SUMARRY: Historic Downtown Millersburg to host marketing workshop attended by representatives from Ohio's 22 main street programs Historic Downtown Millersburg will host representatives from Heritage Ohio’s 22 historic downtown communities Nov. 6 - 7. It will be the first time Millersburg will host a two-day training event since it established its relationship with Heritage Ohio, Ohio’s...
Walking Trail offers fun and fitness

Walking Trail offers fun and fitness

The Union Hospital Community Walking Program (CWP) is for residents who are walking for health and fitness. The program supports walkers by connecting them together in a walking community with achievable goals and the recognition of milestones.The CWP recognizes minutes walked instead of miles to make the challenge equal among walkers of all ages and fitness levels. The program encourages walkers...
Rohr, Routh top finishers in FallFest 5K

Rohr, Routh top finishers in FallFest 5K

Bethany Rohr of Wooster was the top women’s finisher in Christian Children’s Home of Ohio’s FallFest 5K on Oct. 12 in Wooster. Rohr won the overall race in the women’s category and took first place honors in the female division of 20-29 years with a time of 22:00. In the men’s division, Ryan Routh of Orrville won with an overall time of 18:24, which also gave him top honors in the 20-29...

Tusc Bargain Hunter to publish Dover legal notices

Graphic Publications Inc., publisher of the Bargain Hunter and the Wooster Weekly News, is pleased to announce that it has been approved as an outlet for the City of Dover’s public notice advertising following a vote by the Dover City Council. “The action by city council members Monday evening gives the administration the leeway to place legal advertisements in both the Times-Reporter and the...
Quakers Helping Quakers gives students an opportunity to assist in the community

Quakers Helping Quakers gives students an opportunity to assist in the community

New Philadelphia High School students are helping out their fellow Quakers through the new high school community service group, Quakers Helping Quakers. More than 20 students signed up for the first community service event and spent Saturday, Oct. 19 assisting Debbie Aubihl-Knisely, director of the New Philadelphia Business and Community Association, with downtown Christmas decorations. Students...

Multiple Streams of Income

How come life seems to get more and more expensive as time goes on? Personally it has a great deal to do with having a junior in college and one graduating from high school this spring. I have college visit number three on the calendar. With each college visit, I can’t help but wonder how I’m going to help pay for this. Over the years, I’ve sat down with hundreds of people to help them...

Yes, there is investment yield out there. . . if you know where to look

A few weeks ago, I was asked by someone if there was anyplace out there where a person could earn more than zero point something on their savings account without investing the money in stocks. My short answer was, “why yes, yes there is.” There are a number of great choices available to people willing to expand their savings and investing options. For those willing to jump through a banks...
Another cup of coffee as I find my hat for today

Another cup of coffee as I find my hat for today

If you have ever taken the time to ponder the many unique hats you wear as a woman, as a mom, it is overwhelming and quite impressive. We play many roles in the lives of our family and friends, in our jobs and in our communities. Most of the time we put ourselves at the very bottom of our list. We take care of everyone else around us. We worry about them. We feed, clothe and care for all those...
It’s personal this time: root for Linda Ronstadt

It’s personal this time: root for Linda Ronstadt

Every year about this time, when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces its nominees, I’m always poised and posed on the precipice of disappointment, because I understand that life is unfair. How else can a person explain the loss of a parent or a spouse or a sibling or a child? That’s the fallback position. Life just sucks. But you move on, lugging the crappy baggage, wishing things...