Tri-Rivers Construction Trades Academy

One call to the Marion Senior Center can open doors to transportation, social services and fun. The center serves thousands of Marion County residents ages 60 and older. “I tell our drivers to treat the clients the way they want their own mother to be treated,” Steve Badertscher, director of the Marion Senior Center. 10,000 […]Read More »

Florence Kling Harding was a few steps ahead of the women of her time. Thanks to passage of the 19th Amendment allowing women to vote for president, Mrs. Harding proudly cast her first ballot in November 1920 – for her own husband. Born in Marion in 1860 to Amos and Louisa (Bouton) Kling, Florence was […]Read More »

NECESSITY &  FRIENDSHIP ARE THE SECRET INGREDIENTS Wyandot, Inc. started from a dream to keep the family farm of W. Hoover and Ava Brown going. “With our farm income depressed, and with Ava’s encouragement, I decided to go into the popcorn processing business. We thought this would bolster our income and, at the same time, […]Read More »

  When Ann-Marie Duff said, “If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too,” she could easily have been talking about Candice DeWitt and her passion for her new yarn shop, Stitch & Skein. “As I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned more and more that I’m a […]Read More »