63 years of tradition simmer in copper kettles over open flame log fires right before your eyes. The delicious aroma of apples and cinnamon wafts everywhere over the Village. The fall festival celebration brings with it gifts, fine arts, food, crafts, antiques, games, pony rides, and musical entertainment to welcome the arrival of autumn at Century Village, in Burton, Ohio.
Each October Ohiocelebrates the green energy industry in a statewide event that enlightens consumers about the developing marketplace. For the last 11 years, Green Energy Ohio (GEO) provides market information to the public on the first weekend in October to exhibit the industry across the state.
This year the “Ohio Solar Tour” name has been changed to the “Green Energy Ohio Tour” to more accurately describe the tour that features not only solar, but tour sites with wind, energy efficiency, biomass and other green energy technologies. This FREE statewide event on October 1 & 2 provides the unique opportunity for people to visit hundreds of Open House Sites and talk with owners living and working with clean energy technologies.
Conneaut resident Richard McBride received the overall favorite award in this year’s “Life on Lake Erie” photo contest. McBride’s black-and-white image, entitled “Cleveland Tall Ships”, depicts two Tall Ships sailing through the Cleveland Harbor.
This year’s photo contest winners are from all along the Lake Erie shoreline from Toledo to Conneaut. Enjoy all the winning photos on the Ohio Lake Erie Commission website.
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The Fall Color Photography contest begins September 21 and ends October 26 .
Explore the Outdoors, an Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) program, presents the 2011 Fall Color Photography Contest for Ohio students, grades 3-8. The contest begins on September 21st and ends October 26th, 2011.
Published Vindicator: Wed, September 21, 2011
Detectives are working several leads on nearly two-dozen copper thefts from homes in the township. Capt. Bryan Kloss said since Aug. 25, a total of 22 copper thefts were reported, six just this past weekend.
“We had a few before that, but then they really started hitting us hard,” he said.
Kloss said detectives are following up on several leads, and he said it’s possible the thefts are connected.
“We don’t know if it’s one person or a group of people,” he said. “There is a good possibility they could be connected, but right now we don’t know.”
Those responsible are targeting vacant homes, ones with for-sale signs or high grass, Kloss said. Recent break-ins have occurred on Notre Dame Avenue, Burkey and Lake roads and Norquest and Placid boulevards. He said officers patrolling those areas haven’t come across anyone suspicious or out of place, and neighbors said they haven’t noticed anything out of the ordinary.
“We encourage neighbors to give us a call if they see or hear anything strange,” Kloss said. “Even if they can’t pinpoint what it is, if they hear anything at all, call.”
Contact the Austintown Police Dept., Detective Div. here.
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Make plans to attend the 59th Annual Ohio Swiss Festival in the Village of Sugarcreek in nearby Tuscarawas County. Sugarcreek is known as the center of the Swiss cheese industry in Ohio and the festival is a celebration of all things Swiss. It has grown become one of the state’s premier outdoor events.
Geneva, Ohio runs purple every September for The Geneva Grape Jamboree celebrating the harvest of the local grapes. Visitors to this great festival can taste freshly squeezed juice, locally vintages wine, jams, jellies and all things grape.
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The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife asks all Ohioans, especially Ohio outdoorsmen and hunters, to lookout for trees displaying signs and symptoms of Ohio’s newest, non-native, invasive insect, the Asian Longhorned Beetle.
From the Wall Street Journal we have the following story about overpayments of unemployment benefits in the United States and how and where the individual states rank in the mishandling of the funds:
Faced with a massive nationwide infrastructure that is no longer financially sustainable, the U.S. Postal Service has proposed sweeping changes designed to save the organization up to $3 billion a year by cutting its network of processing facilities by over half and adjusting service standards.
The Hartford Apple Festival, a long time tradition in Hartford, Ohio, returns the weekend of September 16,17,and 18. It has food and rides, parades and games, crafts, history, apple peeling and pie eating contests and apples, apples, apples. Go join the fun and share a bit of Hartford History! We’re told this years apples couldn’t be better!