The Orange Township Board of Trustees held its 2026 reorganizational meeting on Thursday, January 8 with the following agenda. Minutes from December 11 and 30, 2025 meetings, are attached below.
By Navneet Patti, MD
Psychiatrist, Psychiatric Center of Northwest Ohio
When addressing mental health concerns during pregnancy and postpartum, clinicians often focus mainly on depressive disorders. While screening for depressive symptoms remains essential, it is crucial to recognize that other significant conditions—such as perinatal anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and postpartum psychosis—are frequently overlooked and left untreated. Data indicate that up to one in six women may experience OCD symptoms and one in eight may have anxiety symptoms during the peripartum period.
Perinatal anxiety, OCD and postpartum psychosis can all go unnoticed, yet each can significantly affect both maternal and infant well-being. Feelings of shame related to these thoughts may lead to guilt, poor self-care, reduced adherence to medical recommendations, interpersonal conflicts within the family and difficulties in forming healthy attachments.
The following results are from December 19, 2025 - January 8, 2026 of the Bluffton University 2025-26 athletics season as reported on www.BlufftonBeavers.com:
FINDLAY__The visiting Bluffton bowling teams split a dual match at Findlay on Thursday, January 8 at Sportsman Lanes.
The Pirate boys won their match convincingly by a score of 2,383 pins to 2,031.
“Solid performance by the Pirate boys,” said Bluffton head bowling coach Ben Nye. “After game one, we were struggling a bit, but I felt like they were very close to putting together a good team game.
