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Area farmers are taking advantage of all the sunshine available to harvest their corn crops. The end of Daylight Saving Time has skies darkening earlier and some farmers working in the fields well after sunset.

According to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Ohio's corn harvest is at 53%, which is below average for this time of year. USDA NASS attributes a wet October to the slower corn harvest, but drier weather is allowing farmers to catch up.

By Paula Pyzik Scott

Hardin County Common Pleas Court documents show that the murder trial of Donna Jo Miller has been moved from December 2026 to April 2027.

Miller has been indicted on multiple charges connected to the death of her sister, Paula Dirmeyer, on Thanksgiving Day, 2025.

The investigation into Dirmeyer's death was initiated by Ada Police Chief Alec Cooper. Dirmeyer had recently reported an assault by a known individual to the Ada Police Department.

New edition updates Indianist movement from Perestroika to Putin

MEDIA RELEASE__"Red Men in Red Square is a captivating true story chronicling the extraordinary journey of American writer [and Ohio Northern professor emeritus] Claude Clayton Smith and Chief Big Eagle of Connecticut’s Golden Hill Paugussett tribe as they travel to post-Soviet Russia in 1990-1991.

Ohio Northern University is hosting a film screening of the documentary Baby Doe on November 9 at 7 p.m. After the film, the director, Jessica Earnshaw, will be available for a Q&A session.  

The public is welcome to attend this free event.

The event takes place in the Pharmacy Building Room 151, located at 511 W. Lincoln Ave.

By Karen L. Kier, Pharmacist
On behalf of the ONU Healthwise Team 

Too Soon was on Nat King Cole’s 10th Anniversary album released in 1955. The album peaked at number 7 on the album charts. Too Soon is not as recognized as Unforgettable and Frosty, The Snowman.   

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is making a significant move with a new policy that could bring some of these controversial peptides to the market. On October 28, Kennedy announced a policy that would allow licensed pharmacies and physicians to compound six previously restricted peptides. 

Jean Ann Sanderson Stager, age 97, passed away peacefully on October 29, 2026, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Born on December 20, 1928, in Lima, Ohio, she was the daughter of Ruth Mabel (Stephan) and Charles Arthur Morrison.

Jean Ann was preceded in death by her parents; her sisters, Betty McGee and Susan Davies (Richard); her daughter, Joan Sanderson; and her husbands, Frank W. Sanderson, with whom she shared 46 years of marriage, and Raymond Stager, with whom she shared 18 years.

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