Sadie’s Take on Delaware Ohio

The National Hamburger Festival will take place on July 1 in Akron, Ohio at Lock 3.
Akron is one of four cities — including Seymour, Wisc.; New Haven, Conn.; and Athens, Texas — to claim the invention of the hamburger.
According to A Hamburger Today, Akron’s claim goes to the Menches Brothers, and the story goes something like this:
The brothers’ descendents, who now [...]

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Buckeye Lake’s legendary Cranberry Bog is dissapearing and could very well be gone in the next 50 years.
The mossy area was 50 acres when it surfaced in the 1820s and is already down to 10.25 acres — and has lost nearly two acres in the last 15 years.
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The model at Carson Farms (511 Carson Farms Blvd., Delaware) will be the site of a Free Stating Seminar on Saturday from 10 - 11 a.m. The seminar will feature Rhonda Pettit, owner/stager for Divine Designs Unlimited, and offer attendees tips and insight into staging their home - whether it is for [...]

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Springfield, Ohio’s Holiday Inn with the site of the ninth Ohio Barns Conference as hosted by the Friends of Ohio Barns on Friday through Sunday.
This year’s theme is “Adoptive Re-use of Ohio Barns” and will include a chartered bus tour of barns in Champaign and Clark Counties on Friday. The remainder of the weekend will [...]

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St. Patrick’s Day has become a tradition for many Americans to relive their collegiate days.
But for those that want more from St. Patrick’s Day a trip to Dublin, Ohio is in order.
The city named after, you guessed it, Dublin, Ireland has one of the premier celebrations in Ohio on the day that leaves us all [...]

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Editor’s Note: I wrote most of this last night, but fell asleep before posting it. 
I am attending the Ohio Association of REALTORS winter meeting and spent most of Monday at Easton Town Center on Columbus’s east side.
Easton is one of the new “open air” mall concepts that are being developed all across the country as a mock-town center. [...]

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The days until Christmas have drawn strangely short — and with my hectic work schedule we haven’t had a chance to get out and look at a lot of Christmas lights this year.
So on Saturday night, we headed south to the Columbus Zoo and its annual Wild Lights display. The trees and exhibits were decorated [...]

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I am a sucker for Der Dutchman - or any of the other restaurants, hotels, or shops under the Dutchman Hospitality umbrella.
And those interested in celebrating New Year’s Eve in a Christian setting surrounded by the beauty of Holmes County’s Amish, then this get away would be perfect for you.
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Getting away to Lake Erie the first weekend in December is not usually a favorite activity for many. The winds have begun to shift to the north and bring along the snow and cold.
But, if you are willing to make the trek to The Lodge and Conference Center at Geneva-on-the-Lake, the latest addition to the [...]

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Okay, okay. I know that we’ve already had a “getting away” profile on Marblehead Lighthouse and the Lake Erie’s Western Basin.
This one is really more about the pictures. I love the chance to get away to the lighthouse and the calming effect that the Lake Erie waves have on me. And after the events of [...]

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