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Lucas County Dogs for Adoption: 5/15
Dogs remain available at the Lucas County Canine Care & Control Office. For information, call 419-213-2800. For a complete list of available dogs, go to lucascountydogs.petfinder.com. A $100 adoption fee includes spay-neuter, a heartworm check, microchip ID, vaccinations, and a behavioral evaluation. Dogs killed Dogs killed May 6 under the direction of Kelly Sears, director of the Lucas County Canine Care & Control: Breed and description; reason; intake type and date with location found if stray. Dogs killed for poor behavior on body-handling and resource-guarding assessments are scored on a scale of 5, with higher scores being more aggressive. Dog-aggression assessments are not scored:
Castalia woman receives new roof after a year of waiting
CASTALIA, Ohio — "Welcome to the Puchalskis." That's the sign hanging outside one home in Castilia, a village with fewer than 700 people in Erie County. It's where Carol Puchalski lives, a home she once shared with her late husband, Tom. In July 2023, a bad hail storm left...
Natural grandeur: Fostoria artist captures vibrancy in Ohio landscapes
ELMORE, Ohio — Landscape artist Jennifer Sowders' studio may not be fancy, but it is a home among the woodsy Ohio vistas she likes to paint. The name of her MONgallery and Art Studio in Fostoria has nothing to do with pretensions of the French but refers to the "Middle of Nowhere," as in rural America. “I can just walk out of my studio and nature is all around me,” said Sowders, a 1994 graduate of the Columbus College of Art and Design, who currently has a selection of works on view at the Schedel Arboretum and Gardens in Elmore, Ohio. Sowders' path during a career in art has been as meandering as a nature trail where she keeps discovering new aspects to herself.
New animal habitats under construction at African Safari Wildlife Park
The construction team at African Safari Wildlife Park is putting the finishing touches on two brand-new animal habitats in the Park’s Walk-Thru Safari, located at 267 S. Lightner Road in Port Clinton, according to a news release. The Park has not yet revealed which animals will occupy these new...
Stone: Mindfulness in nature and the garden
Many would say we live in a fast-paced society. Our schedules are full, sometimes running from one thing to another. In a gardener’s world that could be driving from garden centers to greenhouses, gardens to arboretums, and plants swaps and exchanges to plant sales. And then we add in family and their commitments, work, meetings, volunteer opportunities, sports, and even more — no wonder it feels like we are racing from here to there. It could be described horticulturally as growing at the pace of kudzu, the vine that is commonly referred to as the plant that ate the South and is moving north. It can grow an astonishing 60 feet in a single season.
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