Greenfield observing Memorial Day
By Angela Shepherd - For The Times-Gazette
Greenfield Village Council members (l-r) Kyle Barr, Eric Borsini, Phil Clyburn, Amie Ernst and Brenda Losey are shown during Tuesday’s meeting.
Photo by Angela Shepherd
Photo by Angela Shepherd
This year’s Memorial Day commemoration in Greenfield will once again not quite look like past years, but there will be an event to honor those who have given their lives in the preservation of freedom.
At Tuesday’s council meeting, Greenfield City Manager Todd Wilkin said that this year’s recognition will begin at 10 a.m. Monday, May 31 downtown. After recognition is performed downtown, those observing are welcome to go on to the Greenfield Cemetery where the commemoration will continue. Wilkin said he hopes there are a few singers to volunteer to sing at the cemetery and a speech to recognize “the heroes who gave up their life for the call of freedom.”
Students give back to Greenfield on annual MHS Day
By Angela Shepherd - For The Times-Gazette
Pictured is the T-shirt design that McClain High School students and staff will wear on MHS Day, scheduled for Friday, May 14.
Courtesy photo
What began six years ago as a way for students to get out into the community and lend a hand is coming around again on Friday, May 14. MHS Day will see high school students all across Greenfield performing various tasks to help their hometown shine.
As with previous years, students’ tasks for the day will include trash pick-up around town, mulching, painting, cleaning at the cemetery, clean-up and painting at the parks, planting flowers, and clean-up in nature areas in and around Greenfield.
Walking ancient Ohio
By Angela Shepherd - For The Times-Gazette
Members of the group check out their route for the day on a map in Greenfield before setting off on foot to make their way to Seip Mound.
Photo by Angela Shepherd
In bright orange T-shirts bearing a “Walking Ancient Ohio” logo, a group of people set out from Greenfield’s historical complex recently with the intent of covering 14 miles by foot to a point on U.S. Route 50 where they began a five-mile canoe journey to Seip Mound in Bainbridge.
The next day they were to cover 17 miles, with that leg of the journey bringing them by all the other associated earthworks Hopewell, Mound City, Hopeton and High Bank in Chillicothe as they make their way toward Newark in the coming weeks.
G3 hosting Wine Walk, chalk art
By Jacob Clary - jclary@aimmediamidwest.com
Grow Greater Greenfield (G3) will host two events on Saturday, May 15 a Wine Walk Art Show and Side Walk Chalk Event.
The Side Walk Chalk Event starts at noon and is free. G3 is asking participants to meet at the City Building. Merleen Van Dyke, G3 board chairwoman, said people will then be told where to go to create their chalk art on a specific section of sidewalk.
The Wine Walk Art Show will begin at 5 p.m. and end at 8 p.m. This event is ticketed, costing $20 to participate, and being reserved for people aged 21 and older. However, Van Dyke said G3 has sold all of the tickets it allocated for the event.
Duo connecting Hopewell sites experience rural Ohio along the way
Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks is on path to become World Heritage Site Sunday s group of walkers are pictured in front of Smith Tannery before they begin their trek. Shown from left to right are Steve Wilson and his wife, Jill; Melody Sawyer Richardson; Buck Niehoff; Hope Taft; Aaron Rourke; Kristina Rastaturina; Gary Meisner; Jim Scott and his wife, Donna Hartman; and Mary Mertz. (Photo by Angela Shepherd) Members of the group check out their route for the day on a map before setting off on foot Sunday morning to make their way to Seip Mound. (Photo by Angela Shepherd)