Mary Elaine Augsburger, 75, passed away March 1, 2024, due to complications from dementia at the Meadows of Ottawa where she has been a resident for the past year.
D. Joanne Overmyer, 92, passed away February 28, 2024 at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. Joanne was born June 5, 1931 in Antwerp, Ohio to the late Chester and Caroline (Snook) Hawkins. On November 22, 1951 she married Don Overmyer who survives.
The construction of a new Pedestrian Pathway along the Co. Line Rd. between College Avenue and S.R. 103 will begin on Monday, March 4. Portions of the northbound lane of Co. Line Road, between College Ave and S.R. 103, will be
closed during the hours of 7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Monday-Thursday.
By John Aziz, MD
Psychiatry, Psychiatric Center of Northwest Ohio
Bipolar disorder is a chronic mood disorder that affects about 1% of the U.S. population. Although bipolar disorder is highly genetic, there is no specific mode of inheritance of the disorder from an affected parent to their children. That means if the father or the mother has bipolar disorder, the children might have a higher risk of having bipolar disorder, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that any of them will definitely have the disorder at some point in their lives.
As the name “bipolar” implies, there are two ends of the “pole”: the higher end and the lower end.
