Magnolia News

The late-season, salmon-colored joe-pye wildflowers mingle with the electric-purple ironweed blooms along roadsides.

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Brenna Lee Roth of Canton tries to help her daughter Elizabeth Roth, 5, with her ribs during the Ribs Burnoff Wednesday at the Stark County Fairgrounds in Canton.

This Week Today Big Brothers and Sisters of Summit and Medina Counties will benefit from Arby's restaurants' Help Us Help Kids pin-ups fundraiser being held throughout the area.

With gasoline prices nearing $4 a gallon, I've been apprehensive about continuing -- in 2008 -- the road trips I started last year and have shared with readers. via Aurora Advocate

MAGNOLIA - Billy Hamilton and Derrick Young homered back-to-back as Ridgewood defeated Sandy Valley 11-6 in Inter-Valley Conference makeup baseball action Friday evening. via Coshocton Tribune

“I inherited two acres of neat trees when I bought this place. The guy who owned it in the 70s brought in a bunch of trees. It was a neat find stumbling on this piece of property.”

ZANESVILLE - Even with a wide variety of trees on his property, Casey Summers is pleased to own a home with a rare, record-setting growth in his back yard. via ZanesvilleTimesRecorder.com

Monday afternoon, Magnolia police arrested a Minerva woman after she led them in a car chase that started in Stark County and ended in Carroll County. via The Review

“At Christmas, I had a lot of people coming in to buy records for people who were getting turntables or people who grew up on records who were getting back into them”

Kyle Siegrist, shopkeeper and audiophile, with some new vinyl at Lost Weekend Records Where to start shopping Ready to go vinyl? Several places in central Ohio sell turntables or albums. via Columbus Dispatch

Police observed damage to the door and door frame, totaling $100. - Marlene Gross, 131 Memosa Drive, reported Thursday at 7:42 p.m. that she had been assaulted at No. via Winchester Sun

Q:My wife and I are in our late 50s and work for the same company. The company is offering a generous retirement incentive, and we are considering retiring this year. via Akron Beacon Journal

“There will be a challenge as to the retroactivity because they don't have due process.”

The challenges to Ohio's new sex offender registration law are mounting in Tuscarawas County. via The Times-Reporter