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BY NANCY GAGNET | MIRROR REPORTER — October is a busy month at the Wolcott House Museum Complex. This weekend marks the annual Lawn Sale and Family Fall Festival, featuring activities including candle and scarecrow making and old-fashioned games for children. Ten vendors will also be on hand with antiques …

BY KAREN GERHARDINGER | MIRROR REPORTER — With kayaking, canoeing, cycling, archery, bubble ball and bouldering planned for the Saturday, October 21 Fall Frenzy at Blue Creek Metro-park, calories are sure to be burned, but at noon that day, the goal will be to get at least 500 outdoor enthusiasts …

BY KAREN GERHARDINGER | MIRROR REPORTER — It had been decades since Paul Bucher, John Kuser, Pat McSurley and Rick Yore took the stage together as Nobody’s Kidz – a band that was a semifinalist in the FM-104 WIOT songwriting competition in 1982. Yet when McSurley moved back from Arizona …

BY KAREN GERHARDINGER | MIRROR REPORTER — When Brody Pizzifred was fighting cancer, Cure-Search made it possible for him to participate in drug trials that his mother believes prolonged and improved the quality of his life. After Brody died in January 2015, his mom, Tricia, vowed to raise money for …

BY NANCY GAGNET | MIRROR REPORTER — For 32-year-old Tom Hunyor Jr., firefighting has been a calling since childhood, but a stronger calling to follow his faith has led him down a different path – that of a Roman Catholic priest. “It’s a very natural jump to this from the …

BY KAREN GERHARDINGER | MIRROR REPORTER — Wearing wool garments, a white wig and a tricorn hat, Gen. Anthony Wayne retreated to the shade with his young assistant, William Henry Harrison, as the thermometer pushed into the mid-80s. “How long until they arrive?” Wayne asked, not of reinforcements, supplies or …

BY KAREN GERHARDINGER | MIRROR REPORTER — At 52 years old, Sherry Stanfa-Stanley was feeling stuck. “I wouldn’t call it a rut. It was more of a crater,” said the Waterville woman. For 20 years, the divorced mother of two had lived in the same home, held the same job …

BY NANCY GAGNET | MIRROR REPORTER — One of Maumee’s most celebrated traditions began in 1977, when a group of local business owners decided to hold a summer festival. The previous year, the group had formed the Uptown Business Associa-tion and selected the third weekend in August to hold the …

BY JOEL SENSING | MIRROR REPORTER — Local filmmakers have just a short amount of time left to sign up to take part in the third annual Maumee Film Festival. The final deadline for short-film submissions to the September 23 event at the Maumee Indoor Theater is Sunday, August 13. …

World War II veteran Donald Foulk recently received the French Legion of Honor medal for his service in the United States Army. Vincent Floreani, the consul general of France in Chicago, presented the award on June 8 during a special ceremony at Genacross Lutheran Services in Holland. “It’s a great …