In May 2010, Craig Schweitzer came in second to Andrew Brenner in the Republican primary election. Schweitzer, the owner of Columbus business Outdoor Living by Mr. Mulch, hopes to improve on his performance this time around.
CORONADO, California (AP) — President Barack Obama is jetting away from Washington’s political and budget battles, focusing instead on Asia-Pacific nations and trying to persuade voters at home that the distant region is essential to American jobs and security.
Buckeye Valley East Elementary fifth graders put the finishing touches on their festive headgear for the upcoming “Hats off to Kinley” fundraiser. The event will raise money for Kinley Strohl, a first grader at the school who is battling leukemia. The hats will be worn by students during a runway fashion show, after which the hats will be auctioned off. The event will be held from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the school at 522 East High St. in Ashley.
Olentangy Liberty High School marketing students work throughout the school year raising funds to send aging World War II veterans on the Honor Flight to visit Washington, D.C.
A ghost in one Griswold Street home in Delaware likes to steal scissors. The spirits that haunted the former Sunny Vee Nursing Home on Lincoln Street had a proclivity for turning water faucets on and off. One house, this one on Griswold Street, too, is haunted by the ghost of an old woman who, in life, could never be warm enough. When the owners would leave (although the paranormal activity has died down dramatically as of late), they would frequently return to find the thermostat set at a blistering 95 degrees.
Ohio Wesleyan University’ Sigma Phi Epsilon teamed up with the Central Ohio Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association Wednesday for Belly Flop 2011, a belly flop competition that serves as a fundraiser for the Alzheimer’s Association. OWU student Erika Bryan won the contest with a cringe-inducing flop that left other contestants in her wake.
SEATTLE (AP) — President Barack Obama took his newly combative message to the liberal West Coast on Sunday, aiming to re-energize faithful Democratic voters who have grown increasingly disenchanted with him.
A local singer-songwriter is performing with her band Saturday at the Delaware County Fair, opening for a national country rock act. Erica Blinn, 24, performs from 6:30 to 7 p.m. in front of the racetrack grandstand as an opener for McGuffey Lane who plays from 7 to 9 p.m.