For the second straight year, the Ohio Department of Education has awarded the Hilliard City School District its highest rating on its annual report card for the 2008-09 school year. Hilliard also boosted its Performance Index to 101.5 (maximum 120), its highest number since ODE began determinin
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09/25/2009
A feature at this Saturday's Bremen German Festival will be Hide-A-Way Hills Lodge microbrewery beer. Columbus Maenherchor will provide music, along with the Squeezebox Band. Plenty of ethnic eats, along with a Franfurter Eating Contest, and cool kids' stuff, too! Activities begin at 10am with
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09/23/2009
This year's run through Hocking Hills State Park, centerpiece of southeast Ohio's famous vacation destination region, attracted a record-setting 757 participants to this growing annual event hosted by the Hocking Hills Tourism Association.. Runners came from 16 states, including Arkansas, Cal
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09/20/2009
Hocking Hills State Park staff and members of The Friends of the Hocking Hills, Trail Trolls and other volunteers hosted 2009's 28th Annual VIP Campout (Volunteers in Parks) at the family campground September 10-14. About 300 volunteers from around the state, representing the estimated 7,000
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09/17/2009
We received a recent heads-up email from someone in the real estate business regarding new contract boilerplate from one of our hydra-headed real estate brokerages. The alert noted that this brokerage is now including language in their standard purchase offers that requires use of a specific tit
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08/31/2009
Still lots to see and do as the seasons set and change in southeast Ohio's famous vacation destination, the Hocking Hills Region. Upcoming events include the statewide "VIP Campout" (Volunteers in Park) to be hosted by Hocking Hills State Park, September 10-13, 2009. For a Visual Tour of so
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08/30/2009
As more folks consider buying and then offering their vacation home for short term rentals, in order to help defray finance and operating costs, there are a few significant items to keep in mind. Some might also consider branching out a bit and managing others' rental properties as business begi
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08/30/2009
This year's annual Lancaster Festival was certainly weather-challenged, but the crowds turned out as they always have for the past twenty-five years. Early birds for the closing concert and fireworks display, August 1 at the Ohio University Lancaster outdoor stage, were dumped on by Mother Nat
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08/09/2009
The 25th annual Lancaster Festival moved to full swing this past weekend, with a truly crowd-pleasing performance by The Temptations, backed by the Festival Orchestra, at the Ohio University-Lancaster stage. The concert was followed by the traditional stunning and lengthy musical finale and fi
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07/27/2009
Including this year's proceeds, and since its birth in 1986, the Hocking Valley Community Hospital Foundation has raised over one-million dollars from its annual Auction and Golf Tournament. The funds have brought improvements in medical care facilities for residents of the Logan-Hocking Hills
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07/26/2009
