Alpine Hills Museum receives major gift from Wally Byam Airstream Club
For all intents and purposes, it has been a banner year for Alpine Hills Museum in Sugarcreek. Earlier this year the museum accepted a donation that allowed it to finally tackle the ongoing heating and cooling issues it was having, and recently the museum was blessed to find support from a group of out-of-towners who gladly call Sugarcreek their second home, at least for a week. The...
Letter: Ken Harbaugh for Congress
Letter to the Editor: A lot of people have forgotten that the representatives we send to Washington are supposed to be public servants. Their commitment is bound to the people who vote them into office, not to the highest bidder. That is why I am excited about Ken Harbaugh's run for Congress. He has spent his entire life dedicated to service to our country. He is the son and...Regional Planning Commission hires County Engineer's Office
Coshocton County Regional Planning Commission has decided to contract with the Coshocton County Engineer’s Office to handle day-to-day operations of the Planning Commission, which took this action at its regularly scheduled meeting on Sept. 18. The commission had been exploring various opportunities since the resignation of the executive director in August. According to Frederick T...
Fall-themed art classes offered for children and adults
Holmes Center for the Arts will host a Pumpkin Party Craft Night for kids on Oct. 17 at Berlin Mennonite Church, 4718 US-62, Berlin, and on Oct. 19 at Holmes Center for the Arts, 164 N. Washington St., Millersburg. Both events will run from 4:30-6 p.m. Children will make pumpkin paintings and paint pumpkins. The class, which is $12, is for children age 4 through sixth grade. Register...
Annual Yard Sale Days brings out treasure hunters
The Orrville Area Chamber of Commerce has announced the Orrville Community Yard Sale Days are set for Friday, Oct. 6 and Saturday, Oct. 7 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Orrville’s Yard Sale Days typically boasts more than 100 residential yard sales along with sidewalk sales and discounts at local merchants. The 2017 sale days are sponsored by Everything Rubbermaid, Journey in Time and Alonovus,...
Contra dance scheduled in Wooster
The Valley College Grange at 2411 Shreve Road in Wooster will host a contra dance on Oct. 7 from 7-10 p.m. including beginning and advanced instruction. Music will be by Pocketful O’Gimmick. Susan English will call longways sets and fun mixers. No experience or partner is necessary to attend. Contra dance is a folk dance made up of long lines of couples. It has mixed origins from English...
'Play On' to be performed at Little Theatre
Local audiences will be treated to the comedy, “Play On,” which will open Friday, Oct. 6 at the Little Theatre of Tuscarawas County. The second show of the season will allow viewers to witness the trials of a theater group trying desperately to stage a play in spite of maddening interference from a haughty author who keeps revising the script. Author Rick Abbot began writing when he was...
Tuscarawas Philharmonic and Malone University Chorale to celebrate Zoar bicentennial
The Tuscarawas Philharmonic will join with the acclaimed Malone University Chorale to present "The Promise of Living," a performance to honor the village of Zoar in its bicentennial year on Oct. 7. The concert will include a variety of music that celebrates the value of community, faith and love of work. Among the highlights of the program will be an arrangement of “My Shepherd Will Supply...
All we knew was we had to run, run, run
Mention the University of Notre Dame to anyone who has no connection to my alma mater, and the reaction is normally one of disdain. Or worse. I’ve had people I considered friends say things like, “You’re OK, but I hate Notre Dame." Hate, as my brother is wont to say, is too much work, but there are those whose visceral disinclination toward that little Indiana college borders on...