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COLUMBUS GROVE — During Monday’s meeting, members of the Columbus Grove Village Council engaged in an animated discussion regarding Turner Hall; it&

Boones Wine and Spirits Boone’s exclusive Pina Collaba is a collaboration with the Glenwood Brew Pub. Special to the Daily This week, I’m going to take you back to where I grew up — the Willamette Valley in Oregon. Now famous around the world for its spectacular pinot noirs, 50 years ago there were just a handful of pioneers trying to prove they had found the perfect place to grow this amazing and hard to grow grape. Names like Erath, Ponzi, Sokol Blosser and Adelsheim were some of the fi...

TV Special, Graphic Novel Among Latest Adventures for Last Kids on Earth By Karen Raugust | Apr 20, 2021 The Last Kids on Earth, the middle-grade series written by Max Brallier, illustrated by Douglas Holgate, and published by Viking, has been making inroads into television, gaming, and licensed products. The latest ventures for the franchise include a new interactive television episode, which premiered on Netflix on April 6, and a graphic novel from Viking released the s...

Dubbed The Entertainers, the Canterbury side which went all the way in 1980 to deliver the club its third premiership featured the three Mortimer brothers and the three Hughes boys. Steve, Peter and Chris Mortimer joined forces with Graeme, Mark and Garry Hughes to create a special piece of rugby league history as a brash young Canterbury side charged from eighth at the halfway point of the season to win 13 of their last 15 games and take the title. Canterbury arrived at a sun-drenched SCG on S...

Naked Wines, which first appeared on the WBM 50 when U.S. case sales surpassed 500,000 cases in 2017, has been growing quickly amid the ecommerce surge of the past thirteen months.  The online retailer, founded in the U.K. in 2008, employs a club with a unique spin on crowdsourcing where customers, called Angels, fund independent winemakers in return for wines at wholesale prices. Naked Wines works with WineShipping, which has facilities in California, Missouri, Florida and New York, send...

BBC News Published image copyrightPhoenix Arts Club image captionKen Wright, co-owner of the Phoenix Arts Club, is worried about the future of his business About two million of the UKs lowest-paid workers will get a pay rise from Thursday as the minimum wage goes up. The headline National Living Wage will rise by 2.2% to £8.91, the equivalent of more than £345 a year for a full-time employee. But Ken Wright, co-owner of the Phoenix Arts Club in Soho, is wringing his hands in despair over how...

Letters to the editor: Jan. 29, 2021 Celebration of hate While walking my dog in McMinnville one morning last week, I passed a house with a “Trump 2020” banner on the garage. Below the “Trump 2020” was the statement, “F*** your feelings” — a hateful sentiment. Then, in Friday’s News Register, I read the letter from Leonard Leis decrying Democratic hatred of Trump. Pointing a finger at Democrats as haters ignores the facts.  On Jan. 6, I watched Trump incite a homicidal insurrec...

The forgotten players: South Sydney Rabbitohs A Set the default text size A Set large text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size This is the 28th and final episode in the series where we look at some of the forgotten players from your favourite club. The series has covered all of the current clubs, those that disappeared in mergers, those that came and went and those that just disappeared. It’s amazing how many players have come and gone through the various cl...

A HEARTBROKEN community are being encouraged to pay their respects to a colourful “legend” when his cortege passes through a coastal town. Ken Wright, 75, from Walton, died in hospital on New Year’s Eve having inspiringly fought cancer – always with a smile on his face - for more than a year. Well known throughout the town thanks to his jolly demeanour and colourful costumes, the Ipswich Town fan’s death had a saddening effect on many. His death sparked an outpouring of condol...

A HEARTBROKEN community are being encouraged to pay their respects to a colourful “legend” when his cortege passes through a coastal town. Ken Wright, 75, from Walton, died in hospital on New Year’s Eve having inspiringly fought cancer – always with a smile on his face - for more than a year. Well known throughout the town thanks to his jolly demeanour and colourful costumes, the Ipswich Town fan’s death had a saddening effect on many. His death sparked an outpouring of condol...