Disco Queen Donna Summer dies at 63
NEW YORK — Like the King of Pop or the Queen of Soul, Donna Summer was bestowed a title fitting of musical royalty — the Queen of Disco.
NEW YORK — Like the King of Pop or the Queen of Soul, Donna Summer was bestowed a title fitting of musical royalty — the Queen of Disco.

FRANKFURT, Germany — Europe’s plan to fix its debt crisis by imposing budget cuts frayed Monday. Heavy selling rocked financial markets, uncertainty gripped two governments, and the economic outlook darkened across the continent.

LOS ANGELES — Etta James, the feisty rhythm and blues singer whose raw, passionate vocals anchored many hits and made the yearning ballad “At Last” an enduring anthem for weddings, commercials and even President Barack Obama, died Friday. She was 73.

The Olentangy Liberty High School Marching Band and Guard are going on a field trip in December, just like they have many times before. But this time, they’re going overseas.

NEW YORK (AP) — From New Zealand to New York, the world eagerly welcomed a new year Sunday with confetti-filled celebrations, glittering fireworks displays and star-studded festivities.
I feel like it was such a short time ago I was anxiously writing about spring gardening, it is hard to believe we have made it to December and true winter is just a few weeks away. Despite the bitter cold, howling winds, and difficult travel — OK, I will stop — undoubtedly the brightest time of the winter is the holidays. Otherwise dark streets by night are illuminated and transformed by decorative lights in all colors, doorways are bedecked in greenery and ribbon, and trees shine from inside packed to the gills with family mementos. While I do love the freedom of summer warmth, my absolute favorite time of the year is December. This special time of year is made even more special by using natural materials in your décor. As soon as I was old enough to hijack my family holidays, I pawned the cumbersome, dusty artificial off on a family friend and proclaimed we would only have real trees from this point on.

The Columbus City Ballet School, ironically not located in Columbus but here in Delaware County (Lewis Center), is scheduled to perform the holiday classic, The Nutcracker, Saturday, Dec. 10 at the Chappelear Drama Center at Ohio Wesleyan University. The show will feature 60 dancers, many of whom are from Delaware County.
One of the more recent additions to the arsenal of tools the Delaware County District Library has to help us fulfill our mission of being our community’s information provider is the Gale Virtual Reference Library. You can access this current, accurate and authoritative collection of online reference books by clicking on the icon located on the front page of the library’s website, delawarelibrary.org.