Posted by Fred Steiner on April 24, 2020 - 10:22am
The Blanchard and Sandusky River Watersheds announce a photo contest open to residents and amateur photographers in the watersheds.
The contest runs now through June 30 and provides awards of first, second and third place, best of show and people’s choice. Categories are:
• River/water
• Landscapes
• Plants
• Wildlife
• River recreation
This split-screen view of a the same red bush shows the difference one week makes in Ohio's spring. On April 17 was a freak snowfall, which seemed to disappear overnight. Today offers more of a spring-like feeling in Bluffton. To view these scenes upcropped, look at the next two photos in this series.
Owned an IGA store in Beaverdam; retired from the Cordage Paper Co.
Posted by Fred Steiner on April 23, 2020 - 2:07pm
Bruno Gerold Maroscher, 90, died April 23, 2020, at Mennonite Memorial Home in Bluffton where he resided for the last three years.
Bruno was born Nov. 15, 1929, in Lecnitz, Romania, to the late Albert and Mathilde (Laar) Maroscher. On June 21, 1952, he married Martha Jane McNaughten and she died on Feb. 8, 1999. He later married Marilyn Ruth Marquart Brecht on Oct. 14, 2000, and she survives.
The "how and when it arrived" are unknown. Its presence is simply part of our global experience.
The virus has seriously impacted one of our community’s jewels, Mennonite Memorial Home on West Elm Street. There are no confirmed cases among residents or staff on the other Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio campuses.