Many planters and drills were rolling this week in Northern Ohio. Some had to stop due to rain, others found conditions were not quite right. Soon, everyone will be moving again so watch out for the increased road activity during this busy planting season.
This week we’re revisiting a favorite column from one year ago.
PAULDING – In Green Meadows Conference softball action Thursday evening, the Fairview Lady Apaches scored four times in the first and never looked back in recording an 8-6 win over Paulding.
ANTWERP – The Edgerton Bulldogs overcame a three-run deficit in the top of the seventh inning to come from behind and post a 5-3 win over Antwerp in Green Meadows Conference softball action Tuesday evening.
DELPHOS — The Paulding Panthers track and field teams turned in a strong effort at Saturday’s St. John’s Invitational. The boys placed second overall with 108 points, while the girls finished fifth with 28 points. Lincolnview won the boys’ title with 183 points, and St. John’s captured the girls’ crown with 186 points.
COLUMBUS – Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose and Ohio Treasurer of State Robert Sprague called today on the State Board of Deposit to authorize the use of cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin, to pay for state fees and services.
When Derek Calkins woke up in the hospital in January 2021, he couldn’t see or move.
How has society become so polarized and judgmental? It often feels like we are divided into groups: Conservatives against Liberals, Traditionalists against Progressives, Rural against Urban, Isolationists against Globalists. These dividing walls are breeding a culture of mistrust and dislike for anyone or anything different. We fear the unknown and the uncomfortable, leading even those within the same groups to become divided, each intent on proving the other wrong. While no one seems to relish this division, we live it out every day.
DELAWARE, OH - Elisabeth Johnston of Oakwood, has been awarded a spring 2025 Theory-to-Practice Grant from Ohio Wesleyan University. Part of the OWU Connection, the competitive, university-funded grants support research, internship, service, and cultural-immersion opportunities.
Toward the end of the 19th century, the United States of America was home to many working people’s organizations. Two such organizations, the Knights of Labor and the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions (later known as the American Federation of Labor), have competing stories from 1882 about one of their chapters proposing that the first Monday of September each year be observed as Labor Day.