Iva Walker
Freedom Twp. Hisorical Society Ready for Class
Freedom Twp. - The Drakesburg Schoolhouse # 2 looks just about ready for “in-person” classes right now…and considering that it first appeared on the...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Report
The following items were under discussion at the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary meeting on October 19, 2020 via zoom :Sponsorship for the November 13 Rotary Raffle...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Report
The Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary zoomed into discussion of their yearly fundraiser, the Reverse Raffle, deciding the NEW and IMPROVED format during this ?Wild? and ?Crazy?...
Air Mail Part II
Same windsock. Same beautiful weather. Bright little plane coming in from the east with a mailbag, to pick up a mailbag filled with postcards--over...
Odder Still…
The computer has forced me to type this piece over again after it deleted everything except the date, August 31. I don’t know if...
Another Centennial
August 30, 2020--Geauga County Airport, Middlefield, Ohio--Where else can one go to watch airplanes take off and land, while listening to the clip-clop, clip-clop...
Garrett’s Mill & Brewing Co. Gives Presentation at G-H Rotary Meeting
Shelli Buchanan was the presenter of information at the August 31, 2020 meeting of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club, via Zoom. She described the ongoing...
Viral Verities
This is a compendium (a summary or abstract containing the essential information in a brief form; a concise but comprehensive treatise) of goofiness inspired...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Report
Just dying to get in? The Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club met on August 10, 2020 at the Old Baptist Cemetery on Maple Ave. in Garrettsville,...
National Holiday Alert!
We’ve missed half of the month but the BIG DAY is coming right up, so get ready for a celebratory observance of…National Ice Cream...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Report
Karen Bordonaro, assistant district governor for Rotary District 6630, zoomed into the July 13, 2020 meeting of the Rotary Club of Garrettsville-Hiram. Here’s what...
O, Say Can You See….
Well, it may have been July 4th, but it definitely was a first in a lot of ways…just like what’s going on all over...
Time Limps On
Well, there was a weekend.
The annual garage sale in the village and environs seemed to be going well. Maybe not as many commercial opportunities...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Report
The last official meeting for Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary President John Crawford was an upbeat review of two excellent years of projects and activities documented by...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary News
Time marches on! And so does the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club, in-person and via Zoom at Cal’s II, Sky Plaza, Garrettsville, high noon.The treasurer’s report...
101 Coming Up Next!
Well, so we celebrated my mother’s birthday #100 in fine style, with a drive-by/ drive-through occasion on June 7 (Her birthday really was on...
All of The Nuts
So I’m walking around town and noticing….
What a lot of nut trees--black walnut, butternut, hickory, etc.--there are around here. Probably has something to do...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Report
Duo-Zoom was the order of the day for the June 8, 2020 meeting of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club. Members were participating in person and...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Report
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary met--at long last--on June 1, 2020 at Cal’s II, Sky Plaza, Garrettsville in a meeting in (socially distanced) person and on-line with...
A Day To Remember
A Memorial Day unlike any in living memory. No parade, no marching band, no families waving from street corners and driveways and front porches,...
Mission Impossible
I continue my crusade to rid at least part of the Headwaters Trail of the noxious, invasive weed, Garlic Mustard...and everywhere else I spot...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Report
The Rotary Club of Garrettsville-Hiram met in the cloud on May 13, 2020 to discuss, among other things, returning to meeting Mondays at noon...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Report
The Rotary Club of Garrettsville-Hiram met remotely on May 6, 2020 to discuss the following:
What to do about Memorial Day observances is being considered...
How Long, O Lord?
We’re all going to wax Biblical if this quarantine thing doesn’t end soon. Which book? Well, we have several suitable possibilities, mostly Old Testament,...
A File In The Cake?
I’m sure that somebody is going to “rat me out” and tell the Portage Park District that I’ve been pulling up plants along the...
April Showers
O.K., if “April showers bring May flowers”, what, in the name of all saints are we going to get based upon our most recent...
Are We There Yet?
And just where are we going again? By the time that we get there, I’m going to be so out of shape that someone...
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Report
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary tip-toed into the 21st Century under duress, when a limited number of members got together online (zoom) to discuss a limited number...
Henry V
So...I’m sure that everybody gets the reference, right? Oh yeah, we all go around quoting Shakespeare to all and sundry who will listen. Anyway,...
Fist Bump Anyone?
Holy Schmoley! Isn’t this something?
The empty shelves at the grocery--even Wal-Mart--the panic buying of all sorts of things( some necessities, like toilet paper, some...