By Valerie LK Martin Courtesy photo The site of the first GoodSeed Farm in Oak Grove. Courtesy photo From left, Steve, Stephen and Maggie Boehme in 1998. Courtesy photo From left, Maggie, Stephen and Steve Boehme in 2013. EDITOR’S NOTE: “How’d You Get Here, Anyway?” is a new series which tells the stories of […]
By Tom Cross Photo courtesy of David Hughes This bear was spotted by David and Laura Hughes in June 2015 at Shawnee State Forest. It’s taken more than 150 years, but bears are back in Ohio through the wondering nature of the bears themselves, as they seek new territory to stake out a claim. Ohioans […]
By Angela Shepherd [email protected] Courtesy photo. Country music artist Lorrie Morgan is pictured in the recording studio. She will be perform a benefit concert for Greenfield’s Elliott Hotel in June. The planned restoration of Greenfield’s Elliott Hotel stands to get a bit of a shot in the arm with a benefit concert in June that […]
By Martin Graham [email protected] VFW Riders build a wheelchair ramp for a Vietnam veteran. The VFW Post 3762 Riders came together Saturday to build a wheelchair-accessible ramp for a veteran who had been waiting for two years to receive assistance. The VFW Riders started early Saturday morning at the home of Larry and Carol Brown […]
Festival opts for more seasoned acts in 2016 By Jeff Gilliland [email protected] Vassar Kramer Country music performers Jana Kramer and Phil Vassar will be the featured entertainers at the 2016 Festival of the Bells in Hillsboro, entertainment chairman Rick Williams announced Wednesday. Kramer will headline the Friday, July 1 show and Vassar will be […]
By Michelle Stein Photos by Graham Goebel Photos by Graham Goebel Photos by Graham Goebel Photos by Graham Goebel Photos by Graham Goebel Three short years ago, Sara Anderson was working as a math teacher at Lima Senior High School. But her daily life couldn’t be more different now. Today, 27-year-old Anderson is the […]
By Danae King Will Cook, 90, hopes that one day his love for his wife will take them away together. “I would relish being in the last scene of that movie,” said Will, referring to the movie, “The Notebook.” “The Notebook,” released in 2004, and based on a book by Nicholas Sparks, follows the lives […]
By Amy Eddings Photo by Craig J. Orosz Anna Selfridge with an assortment of Ukrainian eggs she decorated. Most of the eggs are chicken, duck and goose. Photo by Amy Eddings Ann Reddy holds a finished egg, covered in black beeswax, near a heat source to melt away the wax and reveal the dyed pattern […]
By Greg Hoersten Ed Ezzelle, owner of Pat’s Donuts & Kreme, holds a tray of fresh-baked Danish and jelly filled doughnuts. Kierra Crisp frosts a tray of vanilla cake doughnuts by hand. Jessie Derossett fills a tray of cream danish. Kevin Jones pulls a tray of cake doughnuts from a fryer at Pat’s. In the […]
By Michael Johnson Connie Jones, of Friends of Gallia County’s Animals, hands over a dog to Dan Drennan, a member of Pilots N Paws, a group of volunteer pilots that provides transportation to animal rescue shelters. Dan Drennan double checks his flight plans and registers them with the FFA, as well as discusses his planned […]