Iva Walker
Rotary Report
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary Club will be moving its time and venue for meetings to Cal’s II at 12:00p.m. Yet to be decided is whether it...
The Mishler Miracle
Garrettsville - So that the Mishlers may gain a respite from questioning, here’s the skinny on the only structure left totally standing after the...
Out Like A Lamb?
Out like a lamb? Maybe a drippy-wet lamb. Maybe a lamb looking up at the occasional flurries and possible thunderstorms lurking in the wings...
Garrettsville is Open For Business
Holy Schmoley! Flames leaping up from the north side of the downtown commercial district. Customers clutching purchases being hustled past the cash registers by...
Misguided Cats
Maplewood, beware!
I’m thinking that the cats—at least some of them—need occupational/vocational counseling.
One of the guys(It’s always the guys)apparently thinks that he is a watchcat,...
Gone…. GONE…. GONE!
The first department store in Portage County (Chic & Shabby/the Root Store)transformed into a source for home decorating with a distinctive touch…a craftsman fascinated...
School Construction Project Update
The Campus of Excellence Oversight Committee met on March 20, 2014 in the James A. Garfield Middle School to receive information and updates on...
J.A. Garfield Historical Society News
Garrettsville - The March 17 meeting of the James A. Garfield Historical Society was preceded by an open house coinciding with the St. Patrick’s...
Twentieth Century Club News
The Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville completed its journey through the Dewey Decimal System, fittingly, at the Garrettsville branch of the Portage County District...
All Hands on Deck!
Indeed they were! It was Payback Time.
The James A. Garfield Local School Board held a hastily-called meeting on Monday, March 24 to respond...
Oxford English Dictionary and then some
The Oxford English Dictionary has just come out with its quarterly revisions and additions. Some nine hundred new words and phrases have now been...
Rotary Report
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary is moving closer to changing the club meeting time and location, partly in hopes of becoming more accessible to more local residents...
Twentieth Century Club News
The ladies…and other members…of the Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville met on March 6 at the home of Iva Walker on Park Ave., Garrettsville, ...
The Old Farmer Says….
The Old Farmer says of the month of March (and I quote), “In like a sea lion, cold and wet with fishy breath. Rain...
Whoa! Missed it Again!
Mardi Gras, that is. Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, beginning of the Lenten season. Carnavale, Carnival, Carnaval, Karneval, Faschtnact/Fasching…whatever your ethnic background,...
SANK
SANK! The word is SANK! The past tense of “sink” is “sank”…”sank”, not “sunk”. “Sunk” is the perfect tense, which is either being shamefully...
Twentieth Century Club News
The ladies of the Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville met with their guests on February 20 in the Garrettsville United Methodist Church for Guest...
Ragnarok
Well, here we go again. The Mayan “end of the world” didn’t pan out, so, now we can look forward to the Viking Apocalypse.
It...
J.A. Garfield Historical Society News
Garrettsville - The James A. Garfield Historical Society met at 7:30 p.m., February 17, 2014 in the historic Mott Building on Main St. in...
Rotary Report
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotarians are moving on from their successful Family Week activity to support for Rachel Schwan, our local International Student Exchange adventurer for the...
Spice of Life
Sometimes bon appetit, the 0h-so-upscale cooking magazine, is just too much.
They just assume that everyone has access to—and a budget for—artisan cheeses and spirits,...
Rotary Report
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotarians are focusing on their next community outreach project, the Four-Way Speech Contest. The premise of the competition is that the speakers are...
This is Getting OLD
Don’t you just every so often look out the window or open the door or read the weather forecast and feel like the little...
Rotary Report
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotarians met on February 3, 20014 to look back with pride and a sense of accomplishment on the 2014 incarnation of Family Week...
Twentieth Century Club News
The Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville met on February 6, 2014 in the Garrettsville branch of the Portage County District Library as part of...
Time flies when you’re having fun…or not
Hiram - Hear ye! Hear ye! Richard W. and Evelynne Troyer Spencer have been married for seventy-five years! That’s 75 years…that’s LXXV years( as their...
Curses!!
Curse that groundhog!
Well, it does depend on which groundhog you are going to believe. The storied Punxsutawney Phil, of Gobbler’s Knob, Pennsylvania, according to...
Festival Puts Finishing Touch to Rotary’s Family Week Festivities
Well, THAT was Fun!
Garrettsville- Hiram Rotary’s annual Family Week ended with a bang, as all—or a lot, anyway—of the folks who had been cooped...
J.A. Garfield Historical Society News
Garrettsville - The James A. Garfield Historical Society met on January20, 2014 in the historic Mott Building on Main St., Garrettsville for their regularly-scheduled...
Garfield Hosts Power of the Pen
Garrettsville - James A. Garfield Middle School was the site of the recent district competition for Power of the Pen, a program to encourage...