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“Leapin’ Into 2024” begins the year of traveling for the Happy Wanderers.

Selover Public Library in Chesterville held its first “Officially Speaking” event on Jan. 24. Morrow County Commissioner Tim Siegfried joined a small group of Chesterville, Marengo, and Sparta residents to enjoy some light refreshments and to talk about himself and his role as a county commissioner.

Do you know of a senior citizen volunteering their time to help others? Do you know of a group performing community service to help those in need? Here is your chance to recognize them.

Current Morrow County Prosecutor Tom Smith had the opportunity to present his record in office at the Republican Central Committee Meeting Jan. 25, along with his opponent, Andy Wick, and candidates for county commissioner, county recorder and Fifth Court of Appeals judges.

Mount Gilead Student Services Director Molly Clapper provided an update for the district’s “Empowered” goal at the school board’s Jan. 16 meeting.

For the first time in its 43-year history, Ohio Wesleyan University’s OWjL program is adding a summer day camp to serve talented and gifted pupils in grades four through six throughout the state.

Ohioans can support the beauty of the state’s natural world by simply checking a box on their tax return. Donations to Ohio’s Wildlife Diversity or State Nature Preserves funds are administered by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR).

Examine the textiles that gave the Silk Road its name, and travel across the trade routes that connected the cultures of Afro-Eurasia for centuries as The Ohio State University at Marion hosts a special art exhibition of textiles, jewelry, and gemstones — titled “The Silk Road” — in the Wayne & Geraldine Kuhn Fine Arts Gallery in Morrill Hall now through March 15.

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The American Legion Post 97 in Cardington will be sponsoring a Meet the Candidates Night on Tuesday, Feb. 6, for the primary races in Morrow County. The county offices up for election in 2024 are two commissioner seats, prosecuting attorney, recorder, treasurer, clerk of courts, sheriff, engineer, and Court of Common Pleas judge.