Iva Walker
It’s All About Family
Hiram - After an unexpectedly long Christmas break, the members of the Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary met in the Dining Hall at Hiram College on January...
Garrettsville Twentieth Century Club News
Garrettsville - The Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville held its annual Christmas party at the home of Maureen See on Garfield Dr. Ms See...
File Under…
File under “Sorry we missed this one.”
New Years celebrators in London this New Year’s Eve were treated to an interesting array of flavored fun-type ...
Here’s Your Chance!
Here’s your chance to investigate the Mpemba Effect. There’s a video of some Canadian dude on the internet performing this interesting experiment. He takes...
Isn’t technology wonderful?
Sports Illustrated reports that there is now a “Smart Sensor” basketball(94Fifty) full of God-only-knows what kind of sensors, nine of ‘em, complete with circuit...
Makin’ A List…
Now that the clock tower lights are lit, Santa has made the first of his (many) local appearances…for lunch, for breakfast, for pizza, etc….it’s...
Sing and Rejoice!
Taken in any combination—singing because you rejoice, rejoicing because you’re singing, rejoicing to hear the singing, singing to spread the rejoicing—this is a prescription...
Rotary Report
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary met on November 18, 2013 to gain a final accounting of the success of the November Reverse Raffle and to air their...
Old Farmers Almanac
I love the Old Farmer’s Almanac…I don’t necessarily take it as gospel but I do love the miscellany of STUFF that is in it. ...
J.A. Garfield Historical Society News
Garrettsville - The James A. Garfield Historical Society met on November 18, 2013 in the historic Mott Building for their regular monthly meeting to...
Comet ISON
AND…just in case you’ve been obsessing about the Comet ISON(International Scientific Optical Network—used by some Russian astronomers to first locate this fast-moving wonder) the...
Drawbacks To Unseasonable Weather
There ARE drawbacks to having a warm spell this late in the year. Yes, indeed.
So…I’m sitting in the living room reading the paper; it’s...
Rotary Report
Elf Helpers, sign up for your Santa delivery of Christmas gifts ASAP. Garrettsville-Hiram Rotarians are co-ordinating the personal visits by the “right jolly old...
Garfield Historical Society News
The James A. Garfield Historical Society met on Monday, October 21 in the historic Mott Building, Main St. , Garrettsville to pursue its usual...
Rotary Report
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotarians met in the Hiram College Dining Hall on October 21, 2013 to hear from District 6630 Governor Bob Johnson of the Middlefield-Burton...
Did You Catch It? Bi-Annual Business Showcase a Success!
Did you catch the tunes by the Tuba Troubadours?
They were the trio pumping out classy tunes in a lower register to keep up the...
Fabulous Freebie!
Another Fabulous Freebie from the Hiram Community Trust and the Hiram College Music Department:
On Friday, October 25, hammered dulcimer virtuoso Tina Bergmann and string...
Rotary Report
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotary is on the move to sponsor another Rotary Youth Exchange candidate. Rachel Schwan is beginning her trip through the required protocols and...
A Fungus Among Us
The computer strikes again! Here I am typing away at my keyboard-in-the-corner, writing what I’m hoping will be more-or-less reproduced below and—WHAM! It all...
Rotary Report
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotarians met September 30 in the Hiram College Dining Hall to make the acquaintance of a prospective foreign exchange student. Rachel Schwan and...
Twentieth Century Club News
The Twentieth Century Club of Garrettsville met at the home of Cherri Wolfe on Nichols Rd. on October 3, 2013. Maxine Nimtz was the...
Rants in My Plants
Weeding and quite a number of other garden/lawn tasks are so essentially mindless that they offer “quality time” for pondering totally unrelated topics that ...
“Women of Note” Fundraiser — Five Shows by One Talented Woman.
“Women of Note”, aka Famed Dames, will be here in no time and you don’t want to miss making their acquaintance. Your introduction will...
Rambutan? Huh?
Please pass the rambutan.
Right. I didn’t know what it was either but it was mentioned in a recent filler article in the R-C. I’m...
Women of Note/ Famed Dames
The first time that Damaris Peters Pike did a one-woman-show was in August of 1988. Twenty-five years later, she has done more than 1050...
Fatberg!
Have another piece of cake, Chubby?
OMG! New scientific research indicates that obesity is likely about three times as great a factor in mortality rates...
School Daze
It’s back. The big yellow buses are on the road. The kids are walking—on or off the sidewalks—to and from school/practice/meetings, detention (It happens)all...
Rotary Report
Garrettsville-Hiram Rotarians are gearing up for the start of their fall club activities by fortifying themselves at the steak fry on August 19. Hot...
Ya Shoulda Been There!
Ya shoulda been there!
“There”, in this instance was actually two places where it was all happenin’ last week. Not genuinely related places, really, but...
Treatise on Spell Check
Spell Check can’t do everything.
I was at the Farmers’ Market at Robinson the other day. Small but interesting; an assortment of vendors with good...