Features

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  Story Chain’s newest connections

  
  
  

  Launched in 2014 by village resident Jonathan Platt, Story Chain’s mission is to give inmates in area correctional facilities the opportunity to read children’s books aloud to their own kids — albeit from some distance, and from behind bars.

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  School leaders urge against budget cap

  
  
  

  The budget bill — passed by the Ohio House in April — will, if passed by the Senate as written, affect Ohio’s public school districts by eschewing the Fair School Funding Act, which aims to address the state’s overwhelming reliance on local property taxes to fund public schools.

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  Antioch College to host presentation from Narwhal Divers

  
  
  

  Based in San Francisco, Narwhal Divers creates access and safer spaces for trans and queer people interested in scuba diving.

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  Letter carriers to host food drive

  
  
  

  The National Association of Letter Carriers will host the annual Stamp Out Hunger® national food drive Saturday, May 10. During their regular routes that day, letter carriers will collect nonperishable food donations left near residents’ mailboxes.

Obituaries

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  Ryan T. Botkin
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  Melanie Rose (Bauer) Acton
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  Denny M. Powell II