What do you do when you’re left with a vintage bicycle you can’t ride and a collection of dolls you don’t need? Lewis Center couple Milt and Julie Law can help answer these questions. In fact, it’s what they do for a living. The couple recently started a home-based business, Caring Transitions, which helps seniors and their families with downsizing, moving and managing estate sales.
A former Liberty Township surgeon will have a chance to get back to work after a judge sentenced him to three years of probation on Friday for forging his co-workers signatures to write himself prescriptions for painkillers to fuel a drug addiction.
Delaware city collected almost $21,000 in cash floating along US 23 earlier this year, City Community Affairs Coordinator Lee Yoakum revealed this week.
A growing annual event in Powell aims to foster community spirit and crime prevention awareness.Powell’s National Night Out, an event that happens in communities nationwide, is set for 6:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Village Green Park, 47 Hall St. The free family event is operating under an ice cream social theme, said Powell Police Department Sgt. Scott Roach.
With another school year set to start in just a few short weeks, it is once again time for the Gazette’s popular Teen of the Week scholarship program to begin. Students who will be high school seniors during the 2011-12 school year are encouraged to apply. Those who are chosen as Teen of the Week will be profiled each Saturday on the Gazette’s youth page. A reception will be held in the spring to honor all those selected and where the Teen of the Year will be named and presented with a scholarship.
In June 1992, the first and only time the district asked for one, Buckeye Valley voters approved the district’s current 1 percent income tax.
Vegetable gardens are commonplace in suburbia; however, edible landscaping is a relatively new trend. What’s the difference? Instead of planting vegetables in neat rows, the recent trend is to use edibles in landscape design by intermingling them with ornamentals and even using edibles as ornamentals. The practice of edible landscaping is not new, as it dates back to the ancient Egyptians and was also used in the medieval monasteries by the monks in designing their gardens. The recent rise in the popularity of edible landscaping began in the early 1980s and is credited, by many, to Rosalind Creasy. She is the author of several popular books on the subject.
Love is blind … at least that’s what they say.More often than not, though, the simple saying proves to be true — something 10-year-old Hope Bovard would be the first to tell you.You see, Hope is just that, unable to see anything other than shapes provided by the canvas of contrasting colors her eyes do decipher. She’s legally blind, sees nothing out of her left eye and has a 50-degree field of vision out of her right.