Golden Eagles place solid third at Gary Smith Girls Invitational

The Golden Eagles’ girls track and field team stepped up its per­for­mance for the Thomas Worthington’s Gary Smith Invi­ta­tional Sat­ur­day at Thomas Wor­thing­ton High School.

Big Wal­nut placed behind state power Solon, which won the 15-team meet with 170 points. Dublin Coff­man was sec­ond with 95 and the Golden Eagles were a solid third with 92.50 points.

Free Flowers!

Trade your excess peren­nial plants and increase the vari­ety in your gar­den. Come to the Sev­enth Annual Com­mu­nity Library Peren­nial Plant Exchange. It will be held Sat­ur­day, May 11, from 11 a.m. to 12 noon. Bring your peren­ni­als in small con­tain­ers or bags and exchange them for an equal num­ber of plants. There is no […]

Young Adult Summer Reading Club

Com­mu­nity Library’s Young Adult Read­ing Club will run June 8 through August 3 and is designed for ages 12 to 18. This year’s theme is “Beneath the Sur­face”. Young adults will earn a prize for every two hours they read (up to 4 prizes). They will also be eli­gi­ble to enter for a prize drawing […]

Children’s Summer Reading Club

Com­mu­nity Library’s Children’s Sum­mer Read­ing Club will run June 8 through August 3 and is designed for kids ages 0 to 11. This year’s theme is “Dig into Read­ing”. Par­tic­i­pat­ing chil­dren read (or lis­ten) to earn library bucks (up to a max­i­mum of 10 library bucks). Chil dren will have the option of redeem­ing their […]

GRE McTeacher Night a success; Students got to network with Ronald


Gen­eral Rose­crans Ele­men­tary School PTO Pres­i­dent Liana Lee said the GRE McTeacher Night held Thurs­day, April 25, at the Sun­bury McDonald’s Restau­rant was a huge suc­cess. Lee said GRE teach­ers and staff raised almost $500 in tips alone; and more than $800 was raised dur­ing the evening when the school’s share of cash reg­is­ter receipts were fac­tored in.



“I don’t know how many fam­i­lies attended, but I do know that we had a great crowd,” Lee said. “Fam­i­lies were lined up at the counter before 5:15 and they kept com­ing until well after McTeacher Night ended at 7:30. At one point, the drive-thru line cir­cled the build­ing and we had a line of 25 peo­ple out the door. It was won­der­ful to see such great sup­port from our GRE families.”

The big question with a twist: Prom?

Big Wal­nut High School’s Junior-Senior Prom is this Sat­ur­day, May 11, at Villa Milano in West­er­ville; and high school stu­dents every­where always go through the uneasy process of ask­ing a sig­nif­i­cant other, a casual friend, or even a stranger to be their spe­cial prom date.

Big Wal­nut stu­dents are no dif­fer­ent, though this year there have been a few twists in ask­ing that big prom date ques­tion. There was a prom date request spray-painted on the Spirit Col­umn out­side the high school’s north entry, and candle-lit lumi­naria on the sta­dium bleach­ers spelled out “PROM?” dur­ing an after-dark walk around the high school track.

But junior Chris Thomas took home this year’s prom ques­tion prize when he asked Stephanie Adkins to be his prom date.

Fifth Annual Run for John 5K registration now open

Reg­is­tra­tion is now open for the 5th Annual Run For John 5K Run/Walk that raises money for Big Wal­nut Friends Who Share. Run For John began fol­low­ing the sud­den death of John Scan­lan, who died in Sep­tem­ber of 2008 of sud­den car­diac arrest.

John was an avid run­ner who trained for, and par­tic­i­pated in, Iron­man events until his sud­den pass­ing. John’s widow Nicci said the race is more than an oppor­tu­nity to run and raise funds for a local cause; it’s also a day to remem­ber John Scanlan’s com­mit­ment to the com­mu­nity he lived in.

The 5th Annual Run For John will be held begin­ning at 9 a.m., Sat­ur­day, August 31.

Galena Historic Foundation started

Mem­bers of the newly-formed Galena His­toric Foun­da­tion, Inc. held their first meet­ing on Wednes­day, April 24, at the Galena Town Hall. The foun­da­tion was started to raise aware­ness of the role Galena has played as a vil­lage in local and regional history.

The Foun­da­tion is a Domes­tic Non-profit Cor­po­ra­tion and is accept­ing dona­tions of his­toric arti­cles and cash contributions.

The Vil­lage of Galena has given the foun­da­tion a room for dis­play­ing and archiv­ing both writ­ten and phys­i­cal arti­facts at the newly remod­eled Galena Vil­lage Hall, the for­mer Galena United Methodist Church Building.