Enjoy free boat rides on Pleasant Hill Lake during the 2014 North Central Ohio Safe Boating and Fishing Festival. This free festival will be held Saturday, June 14 from 11 a.m. till 4 p.m. at Pleasant Hill Lake Park. Admission to the park will be free for the festival. Everyone is invited to take a […]
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Ashland University Professor Appears in Premiere Stages Play Festival
Ashland University (AU) Assistant Professor of Theatre Scott Hudson is performing professionally this summer with New Jersey’s Premiere Stages as part of its 10th Anniversary Season. Hudson will be a part of the much-anticipated season that will launch with a free staged reading of Vincent Delaney’s fascinating new play, “The Ansel Intimacy,” on June 20 – […]
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Doris M. Borders
Doris M. Borders, 91, of Galion passed away early Monday evening, June 9, 2014 surrounded by her family at Signature HealthCARE of Galion. She was born June 13, 1922 in Rossburg and was the daughter of Lester and Mollie (Hiestand) McEldowny. On November 3, 1951 she married Robert L. Borders and he preceded her in […]
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Fred Scheets
MANSFIELD: Fred Scheets had a strong mind and a soft heart. He walked the fine line of a man determined that his way was the best way, balanced with the stubborn love for the welfare of his family and friends. Despite his best attempts to hide it, his soft heart was manifest often toward the […]
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Cleveland postal service manager charged with extortion and theft
The manager of the U.S. Postal Service’s Vehicle Maintenance Facility in Cleveland was charged today with extorting $19,280.87 in cash bribes and free vehicle repairs, and stealing Postal Service property worth more than $800, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Monica Weyler, Special Agent in Charge of […]
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Esther Leah Beer Gray
Esther Leah Beer Gray died Monday June 9, 2014. She was born June 11, 1917 in Springfield Township to the late Simon and Katherine Miller Beer. She married Otis E. Gray of Ontario on November 22, 1939 and had resided in Shelby since 1948. Esther and Otis owned and operated a Shelby-area potato and Brown […]
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Eleanor F. Garrison
MANSFIELD: Eleanor F. Garrison, 81, of Mansfield passed away Monday morning, June 9, 2014 in Ohio Health MedCentral Hospital. The daughter of George and Mary (Wright) Adkins, Eleanor was born June 3, 1933 in Morehead, Kentucky. She graduated from Russellville High School in 1951. After moving to Mansfield in 1951, Eleanor worked for numerous local […]
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Willard Jones
Willard Jones, age 84, resident of Tiro died Thursday, June 5, 2014 at his home following a courageous battle with cancer. Born March 30, 1930 near Morehead, Kentucky to Garcie and Rella (Hoskins) Jones, he had been a Tiro resident since 1970. Willard worked as a crain operator at Copperweld in Shelby where he retired […]
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Church thanks area businesses
Diamond Hills Baptist Church on 647 South Diamond Street would like to say thank you to those businesses who generously donated items to the benefit dinner and silent auction on June 3 for the Moore Family who recently lost their mother and daughter. Without their generosity our event may not have raised as much as […]
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Shelby FFA student receives scholarship
The National FFA Organization awarded the Ed Johnson Memorial Scholarship, in the amount of $1,000, to Brianna Gwirtz of the Shelby High School FFA. The scholarship is sponsored by Ohio FFA Foundation as a special project of the National FFA Foundation. Gwirtz plans to use the funds to pursue a degree at The Ohio State […]