July 2025

Schools send out Free/Reduced Lunch forms

Paulding Exempted Village Schools, Antwerp Local Schools, and Wayne Trace Local Schools today announced its 2025-2026 program year policy free and reduced meals for students unable to pay the full price of meals or milk served under the National School Lunch and School Breakfast, After School Care Snack or Special Milk Programs.Each school office and the central office has a copy of the policy, which may be reviewed by any interested party.

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Trying to Stay Cool on Hot Humid Days

I should be starting supper but it is so hot and humid again today. I don’t even want to think of cooking. Maybe it’ll cool off when the sun goes down and then I’ll probably make something easy. Today I washed our laundry then also washed Ervin and Susan’s laundry. It is almost dry. I still have a few pieces hanging on the porch. It looked like rain so I didn’t want to take any chances of getting the clothes wet again. 

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Mercer Landmark, Sunrise Cooperative, and Centerra Cooperative announce joint initiative to explore unification

Following a joint meeting on July 23, 2025, the Boards of Directors of Mercer Landmark, Sunrise Cooperative, and Centerra Cooperative are pleased to announce their collective decision to further explore the potential value of unifying operations across the three cooperatives.

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