College Road Map at Wayne College
Navigating the trip from high school to college can be tricky, and students are not the only ones who have questions. The University of Akron Wayne College is planning College Road Map: General College Information Night to help high school juniors or seniors and their parents through the process. However, the event is open to students of any age. College Road Map is offered at no charge and will...
Totten gets a thank you for Thank You, Coach Bates
Kids. Even when they are 22 and not living in the home, they can still wreak havoc. I suppose any parent can say that, regardless of age, but my kid was 22 and nearly three hours away in Athens at school. I had August 13 set aside for a number of months at Stan Tottens request to attend the unveiling of his book, Thank You, Coach Bates. Then came word from our son to set aside a date in...
Schrocks short stories
Edward Schrock was 8 years old when his uncle toted a mysterious trunk to the Amish farm where Schrock lived with his widowed mother and three younger sisters in a picturesque valley along Berlin Township Road 172. The uncle stashed the trunk under the porch where the boy spent each morning waiting for the big yellow bus to carry him off to school. Before long, curiosity got the best of little...
From book seller to book author, Wesner connects with the Amish
Eric Wesner, 33, went from selling books to the Amish to writing one about them. It was an unexpected but enjoyable trek for the Raleigh, N.C. native.“I kind of stumbled into it beginning in Arthur, Ill.,” Wesner said.Wesner went door-to-door selling books for three years. His job took him to many communities around the country where Amish had settled.“The kind of books I was selling were...
All aboard!
Hundreds of train enthusiasts of all ages descended on downtown Orrville on August 13 when the Orrville Railroad Heritage Society presented Orrville Railroad Day as part of the CenturyLink Orrville Rib and Music Fest. Train lovers took the opportunity to ride trains of all shapes and sizes as volunteers hosted short train rides on the societys restored locomotive and passenger cars, track...
Community celebrates the life of Chad Blooming in song
On August 14, the Tracy Barn at Quailcrest Farm was alive with laughter and song as the community celebrated the memory a life cut short by the devastating neurological disease commonly known as Lou Gehrigs Disease. The community celebrated and remembered the life of Chad Blooming during a folk concert, dinner and silent auction held annually in his honor for the past six years by his wife,...The Autumn Blues
Struggling with loads of laundry, clutter in the kitchen and chaos in your life? Stress can easily steal our joy. Trish Berg reminds us to simplify the small stuff and find Joy in the Journey. I am not sure why back to school time brings back that knot-in-the-pit-of-my-stomach feeling. I have been through oodles of back to school seasons, seventeen of my own, and eleven of my childrens. Each...8/17/11 Loudonville man gets prison for trafficking charges
A Loudonville man was sentenced to prison Wednesday Aug. 17 on drug trafficking charges. Phillip A. Farley, 32, 3317 Township Road 629, was sentenced by Holmes County Common Pleas Judge Robert D. Rinfret to 18 months in prison on charges of trafficking in marijuana within the vicinity of a school, trafficking in cocaine within the vicinity of a school and trafficking in marijuana. The marijuana...