The next Western Ohio Chapter of the Lincoln Highway Association meeting is at 6 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 12, at Biggie's Coast to Coast Restaurant, 116 E. Main St., Cairo (nn the old Lincoln Highway).
After attendees order dinner individually from the menu, Michael Buettner will present a program at 7 p.m., "The Lincoln Highway and the Harding Highway in Western Ohio - The Most Colorful Chapter of the Lincoln Highway History in Ohio." The public is invited.
This is not your parent's Hoover sweeper, but it does the same thing, just a a much larger scale. The village crew is heavily involved in leaf pick up this month. The sweeper usually takes five loads a day to the Spring Street Recycling Center. Click to watch the video.
Institutionalized profiling of Muslims is undermining American democracy, a leader of Cleveland’s Islamic community said at Bluffton University Nov. 5.
Julia Shearson, executive director of the Cleveland Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)-Ohio, cited a 2004 Cornell University study in which 44 percent of respondents indicated acceptance of curbing the civil rights of American Muslims. But in the United States, she argued, if you curb one group’s rights, “you destroy the fabric of the Bill of Rights for everyone else.”
Who were Dorothy and Harry Ream? Did they make all those cutout displays on the Bluffton Presbyterian Church lawn on display between Thanksgiving and New Year's? What’s their story?
Answers to those questions, for a generation of people who don’t know the Ream story, will be part of this year’s Blaze celebration. This summer, the Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce invited a troupe of local actors and singers to put the Ream story to drama and music.
