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11/15/12 Commissioners hit up sales tax, solid waste fund to make landfill debt payment

  • November 15, 2012
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SUMMARY: Liability to general fund for debt, closure costs could top $140,000 per year if outside funding does not increase Sales tax dollars and recycling funds made the county’s payment on the Holmes County Landfill debt after funds fell short by more than $70,000. The Holmes County Commissioners transferred $20,500 from sales tax and $57,157 from the solid waste district to cover a $111,000...

Pomerene Auxiliary celebrates 40 years of service

  • November 15, 2012
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Summary The Joel Pomerene Memorial Hospital Auxiliary is celebrating its 40th year. Craig Miller, executive director of corporate services at Joel Pomerene Hospital in Millersburg, pretty well summed it up. “We couldn’t do what we do without the help of these wonderful people,” Miller said. “They are irreplaceable.” Miller spoke to a gathered group of hospital auxiliary volunteers,...

Thurston Woodrow Ralph

  • November 15, 2012
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Thurston Woodrow Ralph, 94, of Kidron, died Monday, Nov. 12, 2012 at his home following a period of declining health. Thurston was born Oct. 21, 1918 in Belle Valley to the late Miles and Leota Ralph. He was a WWII Marine Corps veteran having fought at Iwo Jima and being awarded a Purple Heart. He was in the grocery business most of his life. He worked in his father’s grocery store in Belle...

Gingerbread house competition is open to all

  • November 16, 2012
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Summary: The holiday season can be ushered in with grand style with a trip to the J.E. Reeves Victorian Home and Carriage House Museum on Dec. 8 to enjoy the Gingerbread House Display and Competition, a fundraising effort that will benefit the Dover Vocal Music Boosters. The First Annual Community Gingerbread House Display and Competition is a joint effort coordinated by the Dover Vocal Music...

Holiday Shape

  • November 16, 2012
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Although holidays bring to mind picturesque, happy scenes, the abundance of food and increase of social functions can leave us feeling worn out and stuffed into our clothes. Putting a few strategies into place can help. First, food. If your group gathers at a restaurant, try splitting your serving in half before you dig in. With good friends, you may even be able to ask for a box right away. That...

Procrastination, Daredevils style

  • November 17, 2012
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Listen real close You’ll hear that sound Something has cut loose. --from “Ear to the Ground”, by the Whiskey Daredevils It was to have been a typical Friday evening in the Daliege-Pierce household: me, with notebook in hand and an iced amaretto mocha at the ready, slogging through notes in preparation for my latest blog, while my husband furiously pecked out another writing project...

Adoption Month: The Shrock Family Welcomes A Son

  • November 18, 2012
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Summary: November is National Adoption Month. Learn about the Shrock family of Sugarcreek whose long road to adopting ended on November 15. After first trying to adopt internationally, the couple found their son through the Tuscarawas County Job and Family Services agency. The holidays will certainly be happier this year for Nick and Stephanie Shrock of Sugarcreek whose long road to...

Foxfield Preserve offers alternative to modern burial

  • November 18, 2012
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Summary: Foxfield Preserve, a nature preserve cemetery near Wilmot, OH, offers an economical and environmentally friendly alternative to modern day burials. MAIN Article Wilmot, OH – Jeanne Hertzel and her daughter Katie visited The Wilderness Center on a sunny Saturday morning to help a Girl Scout troop prepare holiday wreaths for placement on gravesites in Foxfield Preserve. The Hertzels...

Girl Scout troop makes wreaths for Foxfield Preserve

  • November 18, 2012
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Summary: Girl Scout Troop 777 spent a recent Saturday morning honoring those buried in the Foxfield Preserve nature preserve cemetery in Wilmot by making wreaths made of birdseed for gravesites. MAIN Article Wilmot, OH – The holidays are a good time to make happy, festive memories that last generations. It’s also a good time to remember those that are no longer living. One way to do so is...

One thing's for sure: 'party' is not a verb

  • November 18, 2012
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SUMMARY: Parties, whether they be intimate gatherings of friends or explosive beach-frot blowouts, have never been Mike Dewey's strong suit, but there was a time -- and a specfic date on the calendar -- when all that changed. We're not normally party people. We don't usually host them and hardly ever attend them, unless it's family-based and, even then, we're not ever the life of it...