January 23, 2019

50 years in stripes made him special...
Florida Panthers...

Melbourne, Florida is home to the Florida Institute of Technology, otherwise known as FIT. The engineering school was opened in 1958 with the purpose of supplying the space coast with the engineers, mathematicians, and scientists it so badly needed. Their school mascot is the Florida Panther.
Troop 57 planning 31st Annual Spaghetti Dinner & Auction

To The Editor - Dear Community Members:

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for helping Troop 57 over these may years. We are preparing for our 31st Annual Spaghetti Dinner and Auction. We will be hosting this event on Saturday, March 2, 2019. We will be serving food at 4:30 p.m. Chinese and Silent Auctions will also start at 4:30 p.m. Our live auction will begin at 5:30 p.m. at Saints Peter and Paul Parish Hall in Wellston.
‘Cooper Connection’ reaches Canal Winchester

As the 2018-2019 high school basketball season heats up, there is a notable Jackson County Connection with the Canal Winchester High School boys’ basketball team. For the geographically unfamiliar, Canal Winchester is a rapidly growing small city which straddles Franklin and Fairfield counties southeast of Columbus.
Green energy, motels, hat tip, business spirit

It could all be a part of 2019 and beyond in Vinton County.
End Christmas Hunger Committee says thanks
A wonderful life...

Phyllis Handley lived her life on her terms and it could also be said she left it on her own terms. Mrs. Handley died on Monday, Dec. 31 at the age of 91 after a productive and giving life which greatly benefited the Jackson area and its citizens and will continue to do so for many years to come. Friends and family members said their final farewells to Phyllis last Saturday, Jan. 5 when she was laid to rest at Jackson’s Fairmount Cemetery alongside her beloved late husband, Jack Handley.
4 billion miles…

A NASA space craft has delivered an incredibly long-distance gift for us humans bound here on Earth. On Jan. 1 at 12:33 a.m., the New Horizons space craft passed Ultima Thule (TOO-LEE). This comes 3-½ years after passing by Pluto. At a distance of 4 billion miles, this becomes the most distant object ever observed by a man-made space craft.
Thanks for what you did…

The Community Connection will start the New Year the same way it finished the Old Year -- by saluting community good-deed doers and achievers with the editor’s annual Good Guys/Good Girls/Good Groups awards.
Boxing Day…A day-after-Christmas tradition

It is almost unbelievable that another year is nearly gone. January 11th will make our three-year anniversary of moving to Florida. I was thinking about our friends from Canada, they were the first ones I ever heard of that actually celebrated Boxing Day. At that point in my life I had never heard of it.