Ship in a Bot­tle Pro­gram Can­celled The making-a-ship-in-a-bottle pro­gram planned for May 3 has been can­celled. We hope to resched­ule for the fall. Ryan Wich­man Talks Weather WTOL-11 weath­er­man Ryan Wich­man will dis­cuss severe weather safety and pre­dict­ing severe weather at the Clyde Pub­lic Library on Mon­day, May 7, at 6 p.m. The Bowl­ing Green native […]

Family attends wedding on Thursday.

The Amish Cook By Lov­ina Eicher We attended the wed­ding on Thurs­day of Matthew and Leanna. Daugh­ter Eliz­a­beth and her friend Tim­o­thy were wit­nesses at the wed­ding. Matthew is a brother to Tim­o­thy. The bride chose the color navy that the two girl wit­nesses and her­self wore along with a white cape and apron. In this community […]

Dewey has neurotic fascination.

Home Coun­try Slim Ran­dles Emily,” Dewey said, “I have a con­fes­sion to make to you. I don’t have a neu­rotic fas­ci­na­tion with manure.” You don’t?” “No.” He kissed her again and they both smiled. “It’s my busi­ness. I sup­ply fer­til­izer to people’s gar­dens. That’s what I do. When I told you I was in manure, […]

Forget sprring cleaning, scrub down your budget instead.

By Erin Thomp­son Social Secu­rity Pub­lic Affairs Spe­cial­ist in Toledo Spring is offi­cially here. That means it’s time for spring clean­ing! Peo­ple every­where are shed­ding the effects of fall and win­ter. But what about dust­ing off your long-term finan­cial plan, April is National Finan­cial Lit­er­acy Month, the per­fect time to spring into action when it […]

McPher­son at the Bat­tle of Shiloh A dis­play of James B. McPherson’s Civil War life 150 years ago this month is in the lobby show­case. The dis­play includes com­ments about the Bat­tle made my McPher­son in a let­ter to Clemmy Stem of Green­spring, an early pho­to­graph of U.S. Grant, infor­ma­tion about the impor­tance of the Navy […]

Our egg hunt for you.

By Erin Thomp­son Social Secu­rity Pub­lic Affairs Spe­cial­ist in Toledo Eggs have long been a sym­bol of new life in the spring. In Amer­ica, the Easter egg hunt finds its roots in the 1700s when Ger­man immi­grants brought the tra­di­tion to Penn­syl­va­nia. Today, the tra­di­tional egg hunt thrills chil­dren every­where. We at Social Secu­rity would […]

Blissful spring night great for walk.

Home Coun­try Slim Ran­dles It was one of those bliss­ful spring evenings when every­thing works out just right. Walk­ing head-on to each other were two cou­ples: Randy and Katie hold­ing hands and mov­ing east, and Dewey and Emily walk­ing closely with­out actu­ally touch­ing, mov­ing west. All four were smil­ing. There’s a magic about a spring […]

Think tank gather at sale barn.

Home Coun­try Slim Ran­dles Down at the sale barn Sat­ur­day, the think tank had coag­u­lated there with cof­fees to go to cel­e­brate spring. Doc and Dud had their dogs with them, while Bert and Dewey and Steve went stag. Dud tried to start a con­ver­sa­tion, but the loud­speaker soon drove them out­side, where they arrayed themselves […]