Denise Bly
Windham Board of Education News
Windham - Windham Board of Education (BOE) met recently with all board members in attendance. BOE President Mia Beradinelli called the meeting to order, gave the president’s report and reported that they had 24 participants in the History Day Competition and 10 of those participants have advanced to compete...
Windham Village Council News
Windham - Windham Village Council met for their regularly scheduled meeting with everyone on the board, the mayor, the village solicitor and the administrator in attendance. Council approved the minutes, fire, police and rescue report as presented, along with the expenditures, and the bank reconciliation before moving forward.
Resolution 2020-3...
The G-Men’s Greatest Fan
Garrettsville - Sitting in the stands every week at every boys’ basketball game, home or away, one will find the G-Men’s greatest fan. If you have been paying attention and you attend football games or boys’ basketball you would have seen him in the stands cheering on the G-men. ...
The WVFD Joint Fire District Appoints Jake Bowden to the Board
Windham - The WVFD Joint Fire Board held a special meeting on January 16, 2020 to choose a replacement board member for the retiring Ron Kilgore. The board adjourned to an executive session and after a long discussion, returned to the table and announced they had chosen Jake Bowden....
Windham Township News
Windham Twp. - Windham Township Trustees met for a “special” meeting as the regularly scheduled meeting date was moved to accommodate the trustees attending the state-wide township meetings in Columbus. The trustees approved the January minutes, expenditures and the permanent appropriations of $805,299 for 2020.
Bill Isler Sr. and Bill...
Windham Village Council to Amend Its Farm Animal Ordinance
Windham - Windham Village Council met for their first council meeting of the year. New to council are Lawrence (Mac) Cunningham and Sherri Pennington. They have replaced Stacey Brown and Phil Snyder.
The meeting was called order and the Pledge of Allegiance was recited. Council approved the minutes, fiscal...
Windham Board of Education News
Windham - The Windham Board of Education (BOE)met for their regularly-scheduled meeting on January 21, 2020. After the pledge of allegiance and moment of silence, Superintendent Aireane Curtis wanted to do something special first. Curtis and Treasurer Sam Pochedly wanted to recognize all the board members, as January is...
Renaissance Family Center Celebrates 10 Years
Windham - A little over 10 years ago a church had a vision for the old East Elementary School in Windham, a vision that would take a lot of faith to see come to fruition. Almost from its inception, it was a miracle how it all started to come...
Windham WVFD Joint Fire District Gets Organized for 2020
Windham - Windham Volunteer Joint Fire District Board met for the regularly-scheduled meeting last week. The board kicked off the New Year appointing Brian Miller as the Chairman of the board. They welcomed new member Cindy Cale who was appointed by the village to serve as their representative for...
Windham Township Trustee News
Windham Township Trustees met for their first meeting of the year with all trustees and fiscal officer in attendance. The trustees chose Danny Burns as their chairman and Brian Miller as the vice chairman. The trustees approved the minutes, expenditures, and the allowed mileage reimbursement of $.57.5/ mile. They...
Breakfast with Santa In Windham Draws Many Kids
Windham - Windham United Methodist Church held their Annual Breakfast with Santa earlier this month at the Renaissance Family Center (RFC). According to Judy Blewitt, they have been doing the breakfast with Santa for more than 20 years. The “elves” began Friday night setting up the cafeteria room at...
WVFD Joint Fire Board Report
Windham - The WVFD Joint Fire District met for their regularly-scheduled meeting recently with all board members and fiscal officer in attendance. The meeting was called to order and the board approved the following: the minutes, expenditures and bank reconciliation for the month of November. The board then approved...
Windham Township Trustee News
Windham Twp. - Windham Township Trustees met for their regularly scheduled meeting recently. The regular fiscal officer was ill, but Casey Timmons-Blewitt stepped in a month early to her position and took over the fiscal officer’s duties.
The trustees set the meeting day and time for 2020. They are going...
Windham’s 5th Annual Parade of Lights a Hit!
Windham - Windham’s 5th Annual Parade of Lights was held this past Sunday evening. The parade “stepped off from Dollar General being led by Windham’s grass fighter, followed by the Windham marching band. The parade had several interesting floats. One was Dixies Diner depiction of the Christmas Story. Ashley...
Santa Pub Crawl a Success
Garrettsville - Christmas celebrating began just a little early, as bout 70 folks took to the streets of Garrettsville this past Saturday to help raise funds for Garrettsville Summerfest in the Annual Santa Pub Crawl. The 70 “dressed in their best” or as some would say, worst Christmas outfits...
Shannan Jursa State Farm Agency Honors First Responders
Windham - The WVFD was the most recent recipient of State Farm’s Protect the Protectors Program. The program donated 10 home monitoring kits to the department. The Protect the Protector Program was launched in December 2015 by State Farm and Canary Home Monitoring System. Their goal was to protect...
Windham Welcomes New Drive-Thru Beverage Store
Windham - After a short soft opening, the Windham Beverage Drive- Thru Store held their official Grand Opening this past Saturday. Owner Ron King, his son Phil King along with store manager Angela Murphy, store employees and local elected officials were in attendance at the ribbon cutting ceremony for...
Five-Year Forecast Gives Windham District a Picture of Their Future Solvency
Windham - Windham Board of Education’s (BOE) most recent meeting shed some light on the future with the five-year forecast presented to the board by treasurer, Samantha Pochedly. On paper, the five-year forecast looks bleak in the 3rd and 4th year, but Pochedly said there are some factors that...
The WVFD Changes Meeting Times and Makes Staff Adjustments
Windham - The Windham WVFD Fire Board met for their regularly scheduled meeting with all board members and fiscal officer in attendance. The board approved the minutes, expenditures and bank reconciliation for the month of October before moving on.
The board voted unanimously to change the meeting time from 7pm...
Windham Township Looks at Setting Regulations for Wedding Barns
Windham Twp. - Windham Township Trustees met for their regularly scheduled meeting recently, with one board member absent. The meeting was called to order and the trustees approved the minutes and expenditures for the month of October.
A representative from the Windham Post of the American Legion was on hand...
Garrettsville Summerfest Announces Date Change for 2020
Garrettsville - Many of us are getting ready for winter to arrive in Ohio, however the Garrettsville Summerfest Committee has been busy planning for next year’s summer event. The committee will travel to Sandusky this weekend for workshops, meetings, seminars and to look at entertainment options for the Summerfest...
Windham Village Council News
Windham - Windham Village Council met recently, with all but one council member in attendance. The meeting was called to order by Mayor Scott Garrett. Council approved the minutes then moved on to the financial report.
Fiscal Officer Cheree Taylor presented the following: Income tax collected year to date 09/30/19,...
Teen Develops World-Wide Hearing-Impaired Pen Pal Program
School can be difficult for many kids but those who are hearing impaired have a difficult road to travel in order to have a successful school career and beyond. Even though hearing loss is one of the biggest disabilities, it often comes with bullying in school and the feeling...
Windham Board of Education News
Windham - Windham Board of Education (BOE) met recently with all but one member in attendance. The school announced the students of the month and presented them their awards. They also awarded two students who demonstrated safety and positive behavior while riding the bus. They gave one award to...
Township’s New Generator Installed
Windham Twp. - The Windham Township Trustees met for their regularly-scheduled meeting recently, with all governing parties in attendance. Following the Pledge of Allegiance and the usual housekeeping, the trustees opened the floor for guests to speak.
The local electrician, Todd Snyder, who has been working on upgrading the electricity...
WVFD Board Considers Incentives and Holiday Pay
Windham - The WVFD met for a rescheduled monthly meeting recently. The rescheduled the meeting was due to the fact that the chief needed to be out of town for his full-time job on the date of the regularly scheduled meeting.
The meeting was called to order with...
Friends of Melana Continue the Search for a Cure for Children’s...
Garrettsville - Every year for the past nine years, Friends of Melana (FOM) has held a 5K race to help fund research on childhood glioma treatment. The race is run annually at Garrettsville Summerfest and this year was the 9th year for the race. The group was originally...
Windham Township Trustees News
Windham Twp. - The trustees met for their regularly scheduled meeting with all trustees in attendance. They opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and did the usual housekeeping.
The floor was opened up for guests to speak.
Windham Village Administrator Deborah Blewitt was at the meeting to ask for donations for...
The Old Church on Silica is Demolished
A piece of history in Windham Township was demolished earlier this month as the church known to locals as the Old Church on Silica, was demolished. The Old Church on Silica was rich in local history and was and icon in the community at one time, but in the...
Ohio National Guard 1st Battalion 145th Armored Regiment is Being...
This past Sunday, around 700 soldiers from the Ohio National Guard out of Stow had their Call to Duty Ceremony at the Canton Memorial Civic Center. The men and women of the 1st Battalion, 145th Armored Regiment answered the call to duty as they prepare to head to Kuwait...