Tennis players at Conneaut's Liberty Street Park may be taking a few more breaks this season, thanks to a new picnic table and benches installed adjacent to the tennis courts by James LaBounty for his Eagle Scout project.
Table Tennis: Eagle Scout Project Puts Benches, Picnic Table at Liberty Street Park
- Friday, 14 June 2013 13:08
- Martha Sorohan
Pymatuning Area Chamber's 31st Pymatuning Lake Fest on the summer horizon
- Sunday, 09 June 2013 20:51
- Doris Cook
ANDOVER-For the 31st year the Pymatuning Lake Festival will take place on the first weekend in august. Dates for the two-day event staged at the main beach area of Pymatuning State Park is Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 2-4.
The festival committee is finalizing plans for one of the biggests and longest running festival in Ashtabula County. Crowds for the 30th anniversary festival in 2012 numbered close to 15,000, according to Chamber of Commerce officials. It's billed as a family fun event with something for everyone of all ages to enjoy.
Muni court garden is in its 19th year
- Thursday, 06 June 2013 11:16
- by Marian McMahon
PERRY TOWNSHIP – Painesville Municipal Court Judge Michael A. Cicconetti sentences many persons who come before him in court to community service rather than jail time for nonviolent offenses. One type of service calls for them to work in the Court’s Community Work Service Vegetable Garden Project. The program is run as a cooperative effort
Conneaut's Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Celebrates 50 Years
- Friday, 08 February 2013 13:43
- Martha Sorohan
From the pulpit of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church late Saturday afternoon, Bishop Elizabeth Eaton of the Northeast Ohio Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America told the congregation, “You don’t look a day over 49.”
USW commemorates 150th anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation
- Friday, 01 February 2013 14:40
- Marian McMahon
PITTSBURGH - Issued almost two years into the Civil War on Jan. 1, 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation authorized the Union army to recruit black soldiers and it declared that all slaves in the rebel states of the Confederacy “are, and henceforward shall be free.”
The Proclamation did not apply to slaves in