Apollo Career Center will hold its first-everl Apollopalooza on Jan. 29, 5:30-7 p.m., to kick-off National Career and Technical Education Month, which runs through February. Apollopalooza will showcase both the high school and adult education programs. The event is free and open to the public.
The Ohio Department of Transportation announced that State Route 12 in Columbus Grove will be closed or 90 days for sewer replacement beginning Monday, Feb. 4.
Traffic will be detoured onto State Route 65 and Sycamore Street and back to State Route 12.
Dr. Sam Heiks, M.D., (left) of Bluffton is the 8:30 p.m., Thursday evening guest on WBGU TV's "Northwest Ohio Journal." The 30-minute program, with host Steve Kendall, will focus on direct primary care medicine. Dr. Heiks of Creekside Medicine Medicine has a primary care medicine practice. The program was taped last week.
The Van Wert Civic Theatre is presenting the Tony Award winning musical Big River, a country and bluegrass musical adaptation of Mark Twain's classic 1884 novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".
The show is directed by Jerry Zimmerman and features two Bluffton dramatists, Everett Collier and Dan Basinger.
Everett Collier is performing in the role of Big Jim, the runaway slave who encounters Huck while seeking his own freedom.
Dan Basinger plays Pap Finn, Huck's drunk and violent father and the catalyst behind Huck's own journey.
