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Killbuck Pack 315 celebrates 100 years of scouting

  • March 29, 2010
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While none of the members of Killbuck Pack 315 Cub Scouts come close to approaching 100 years old, it hasn’t stopped them from celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America this spring. Scouts worldwide have been fishing, hunting, making fires, helping strangers, doing good deeds and having a blast with their club members for the past 10 decades. As a way of celebrating the...

Predictions are optimistic, despite sagging economy

  • March 29, 2010
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Lisa Patt-McDaniel says there are days when she wishes she could send Wayne County’s economic development entities and local governments to other Ohio counties to show them how partnerships and cooperation can work. Patt-McDaniel, in her first year as the state’s head of development, was the featured speaker at the March 16 annual meeting of the Wayne Economic Development Council (WEDC). The...

Voter registration deadline set for May 4 primary election

  • March 29, 2010
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The deadline for voter registration for the May 4 primary election will be 9 p.m. on Monday, April 5. This includes any change of address or change of name. Residents can register at the Holmes County Board of Elections, located at 75 E. Clinton St., Suite 108 in Millersburg. The Board of Elections office is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. Registration forms are also available at the Bureau of...

Annual writers workshop set for April 17

  • March 29, 2010
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The seventh annual Writers Workshop will be held Saturday, April 17, at The University of Akron Wayne College. Author and journalist David Giffels will be the keynote speaker. The workshop will include sessions about poetry writing, enhancing creativity, nonfiction writing, newspaper writing and writing blogs. The workshop begins with a continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m. and runs until 2:30...

Administrative Professionals Day event slated for April 21

  • March 29, 2010
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The 15th annual Administrative Professionals Day event will be held April 21 in the J.M. Smucker Multipurpose Room of The University of Akron Wayne College’s Student Life Building. The program, co-sponsored by My Office Products and the J.M. Smucker Company Store and Café, is a presentation of the college’s office of continuing education and workforce development. Kay Frances, motivational...

St. Mary’s annual flower and plant sale, May 8

  • March 29, 2010
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It is time for St. Mary’s annual flower and plant sale. It will be held Saturday, May 8, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., in St. Mary’s parking lot. Geranium pots, hanging baskets, and patio pots, as well as New Guinea impatiens, Gerber daisies, petunias, fuchsias, Million Bells and ferns will be available. Pre-orders can be called to Maureen Miller at 330-201-5508 or to the school office at...

Open for business Christmas Run pool ready to make waves

  • March 29, 2010
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The more than 25 citizens who took part in a quickly arranged meeting of a group informally known as the Friends of Christmas Run Pool just 24 hours before the March 15 meeting of Wooster City Council heard the news they had hoped to hear from Mayor Bob Breneman. Christmas Run swimming pool will open on schedule this summer. With unofficial leader Mark Gooch at the helm, the group formed in the...

Barnes returns from Afghanistan

  • March 29, 2010
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Army Staff Sgt. Jamieson L. Barnes has returned to Fort Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska, after being deployed to Afghanistan for one year. The soldier is one of 3,500 members of the 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division stationed at Fort Richardson. Airborne combat team members included soldiers assigned to one of six battalions and regiments of the 25th Infantry...

Emergency HEAP to end March 31

  • March 29, 2010
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The Kno-Ho-Co-Ashland Community Action Commission’s Emergency HEAP program will end for the season March 31. Emergency HEAP is a federally funded program administered by the Ohio Department of Development, Office of Community Services, that provides financial assistance to low-income households that are threatened with disconnection from their heating source, or have already had service...

Harry Gray to present Helen Murray Free Lectures Professor at California Institute of Technology to speak at the College of Wooster April 22

  • March 29, 2010
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Harry B. Gray, founding director of the Beckman Institute and the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology, will be the featured speaker for the annual Helen Murray Free Lectures April 22 at The College of Wooster. Gray will present a public lecture, titled Powering the Planet with Solar Fuel, at 7:30 p.m., in Room 009 of Severance (Chemistry) Hall, 944...