JEROMESVILLE — Firelands Electric Cooperative is pleased to announce that Michael Telakowicz of Hillsdale High School was recently awarded a $1,700 scholarship from Ohio’s Electric Cooperatives (OEC). OEC is the statewide association for the 24 electric cooperatives, including Firelands Electric, which provide power to more than 380,000 homes and businesses in 77 of Ohio’s 88 […]
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Madison National Honor Society students pitch in on Spring Clean-Up Day
MADISON TOWNSHIP — National Honor Society members from Madison Comprehensive High School participated in the 2nd annual Spring Clean-Up Day at the Madison Community Youth Park over the weekend. Beds were mulched, signs were hung and fields were readied for the upcoming baseball/softball season. Many members grew up playing on these fields and were excited […]
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College-NOW students to compete in Grand Challenge Race on May 2
LEXINGTON — Vehicles racing through the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course are not a unique site. But the type of vehicles in action on Tuesday, May 2, make this a truly original event. The 5th annual Grand Challenge Race features North Central State College and partnering school’s engineering technology students driving the electric vehicles they built […]
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Mobile Career Fair brings trades to Clear Fork High School
BELLVILLE — Iona Hickerson sat in the cab of a CAT 303 Excavator, carefully pulling the levers at her waist. It’s not how Hickerson, a freshman at Clear Fork High School, typically spends her lunch break. In fact, she’d never operated an excavator before Friday afternoon’s Mobile Career Fair. Representatives from 40 local businesses set […]
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North Central State College joins Community Vibrancy effort
MANSFIELD — North Central State College has been named one of 16 colleges in the national inaugural Achieving the Dream (ATD) Community Vibrancy cohort! We are excited to join other colleges within the ATD initiative working to assess and address systemic challenging opportunities on our campus and in our community. President Dorey Diab has seen […]
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Loudonville-Perrysville BOE starts search for bids on new FFA greenhouse
LOUDONVILLE — The Loudonville-Perrysville Exempted Village Schools board of education approved a resolution Monday allowing the district to start seeking bids on a new greenhouse for its FFA program. The district’s current greenhouse was built in the 1980s and its wooden floors have started to rot away, letting insects and rodents through. FFA students and […]