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Time to make New Year's financial resolutions

  • January 4, 2010
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Like many people, you may make some New Year’s resolutions. Perhaps you’ve promised yourself that you’ll visit the gym more often or learn a new language or reconnect with a long-lost friend. All of these are worthy goals, of course, and if you achieve them, you may add new dimensions to your life. But if you want to accomplish other major milestones you may have envisioned - a new home,...

A rainy Christmas Day leads to thoughts of snow... and memories flow

  • January 4, 2010
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I didn't need a weatherman on Christmas Day; actually, I'm of the opinion that most forecasts are only educated guesses and if some people choose to put their faith in long-range projections well, that's up to them.Living down here in hurricane country, close to the coast, I'm always amused when the TV weather-readers begin raising the hue and cry when a tropical depression is, say, 450 nautical...

Asking for a raise

  • January 4, 2010
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I am asking for a raise. In the last 12 months I have learned a lot of new skills, fine-tuned many long-standing abilities and outgrown my current position. Let me start by sharing my resume.Wife. As a wife, I have learned to live with another human being in harmony. To adapt to his unique personality traits and communicate in a way that he understands. I have learned to watch college football...

Holmes-Wayne Electric Cooperative issues scholarship reminder

  • January 4, 2010
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Millersburg-based Holmes-Wayne Electric Cooperative, Inc. is reminding area high school students that applications are being accepted for its 2010 scholarship program. The member-owned electric utility will award six cash scholarships in all, totaling $9,000. Students will compete in two divisions (boys and girls) for scholarships of $2,000, $1,500, and $1,000 in each division. Robyn Tate, the...

Board addresses concerns over teacher intervention in fight Joan ‘Tootzi’ Snyder bids farewell

  • January 4, 2010
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After a spirited dialog between guests and Superintendent Kris Perone at the West Holmes school board meeting Monday, Dec. 21, in regard to the suspension of a teacher who intervened in a fight between students, the tension in the room abated as board member Joan “Tootzi” Snyder gave her farewell address after serving 16 years on the board. Community members voiced their concern about how the...

Holmes-Wayne Electric Cooperative issues scholarship reminder

  • January 4, 2010
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Millersburg-based Holmes-Wayne Electric Cooperative, Inc. is reminding area high school students that applications are being accepted for its 2010 scholarship program. The member-owned electric utility will award six cash scholarships in all, totaling $9,000. Students will compete in two divisions (boys and girls) for scholarships of $2,000, $1,500, and $1,000 in each division. Robyn Tate, the...

Family-to-Family course begins Jan. 5

  • January 4, 2010
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The NAMI Family-to-Family Education Program, a free 12-week course for families and friends of individuals with brain disorders called serious mental illness, begins Tuesday, Jan. 5. The course is taught by trained family members who have lived with this experience. All course materials are furnished at no cost. Many family members describe the impact of this program as life changing. Join...

Family-to-Family course begins Jan. 5

  • January 4, 2010
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The NAMI Family-to-Family Education Program, a free 12-week course for families and friends of individuals with brain disorders called serious mental illness, begins Tuesday, Jan. 5. The course is taught by trained family members who have lived with this experience. All course materials are furnished at no cost. Many family members describe the impact of this program as life changing. Join...

Who needs candy, flowers and diamonds?

  • January 4, 2010
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The old saying states that good things come in little packages. Well, in at least one instance this Christmas, good things came in incredibly massive proportions, thanks to a little ingenuity. This big, bright red ribbon surrounded the home of owners, Myron Ray and Ruth Ellen Troyer, of 3120 TR155, Sugarcreek, and their children, Linda Rose, Josiah Lynn and Carolyn Marie. The bow, a 40-foot...

West Holmes brass band provides holiday musical delight

  • January 4, 2010
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Millersburg and Berlin were alive with the sound of music the week before Christmas, and it wasn’t from the sound of carolers belting out Christmas tunes, but rather the brass sounds of tubas, trombones, baritones — the low-end brass instruments. From former West Holmes band members who have graduated, to current band members, down to the West Holmes Middle School (WHMS), the brass section of...