The churches of Pandora and Gilboa are offering food boxes for households in the Pandora-Gilboa School District. The boxes are designed to provide nine meals for a family of four.
In order to pick up a box, you must register by 5 p.m. on July 23 by calling 419-384-3905. Boxes will be available for pickup on Saturday, July 28 at 11 a.m. at the Pandora United Methodist Church located on State Route 12.
Free computer classes will be offered July 24 through July 28 in a mobile computer lab parked on Main Street in front of the Bluffton Public Library.
Sessions include: Explore the Treasures of SEO, Explore Your Family History (getting started and digging deeper), Explore Office 2010, Mango Foreign Language Database, Explore the New Digital Collection for E-readers and Beginning Computer Q & A.
A special session will be offered to introduce parents to the "buried treasures" of SEO as well.
Grace Paquin practices with other sixth graders in the summer strings program offered by Rachael Lewis, Bluffton strings teacher. Click for more photos and watch a video
Racheal Lewis keeps Bluffton string players in shade during the summer months. She offers six weekly string sessions for her students between early July and mid-July.
This summer's classes include separate ones for beinngers, junior high, sixth grade, fifth grade, high school and any string player in a class she calls "Fiddling."
The Icon visited her sixth grade rehearsal earlier this month. Take a look.
Leonard A. Rieman, 90 of Columbus Grove, died at 4:25 pm July 8, 2012, at Putnam Acres, Ottawa. He was born May 11, 1922, in Glandorf to Louis and Appolonia Maag Rieman. On April 14, 1948 he married Rosella F. Diemer and she preceded him in death on April 11, 2005.
Mr. Rieman was a farmer and also retired from Phillips ECG, Ottawa. He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Bluffton, where he had served on the parish council.
AEP Ohio has restored power to approximately 98 percent of the approximately 660,000 customers affected by the catastrophic
storm that moved through the state June 29 and the additional customers
who lost power in subsequent storms July 4 and 5.
As of 8 p.m. tonight (July 8), power has been restored to approximately 646,000 of the customers affected by these storms. Approximately 14,000 AEP Ohio customers remain without power tonight.
The majority of the customers still without power are located in the
