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BY NANCY GAGNET | MIRROR REPORTER — Katherine Williams loves to dance.  The Maumee High School freshman recently made the high school dance team and enjoys leaps, jumps, kicks and turns to choreographed music. “It’s a lot of fun to just hang out with the team and dance in front of a …

BY NANCY GAGNET | MIRROR REPORTER — You don’t have to go far to find the freshest farm-to-table produce in the area. Tom Strain & Sons and Daughter Too Market and Garden Center has been harvesting fresh produce in Northwest Ohio for 130 years. For the past 73 years, the family has …

BY NANCY GAGNET | MIRROR REPORTER — The Meijer Simply Give program has selected Under One Roof Food Pantry for its fall campaign. That means that while shopping at Meijer on Conant Street in Maumee, anyone may purchase a $10.00 Simply Give card located near any checkout lane, and the money will …

BY KAREN GERHARDINGER | MIRROR REPORTER — Wearing a mask and a jacket, Diane Peyton sat outside StoryPoint Waterville, watching as veterans lowered the U.S. flag to half-staff. September 11, 2001 is a day that no one will forget, said StoryPoint life enrichment director Nichole Alexander, who organized a flag ceremony on September …

BY NANCY GAGNET | MIRROR REPORTER — Children’s book illustrator Merrill Rainey loves to inspire children to be creative. In his new books, Color, Cut, Create! Horses and Color, Cut, Create! Dinosaurs, Rainey developed over 70 paper toys, props and playsets specifically designed to let children’s imaginations take off.  The dinosaur book …

BY NANCY GAGNET | MIRROR REPORTER — Eight-year old Layne Sillis knows a thing or two about helping others. The young Monclova Primary student, who loves to eat at Loma Linda Restaurant with family – parents Mike and Abbie Spillis and younger siblings Cam and Emery – had missed going there when …

Editor’s Note: World War II veteran George Snyder passed away on August 29. As a tribute to Mr. Snyder, who was a lifelong resident of Maumee, The Mirror is reprinting, in its entirety, the following feature story profile that first appeared in the newspaper just a few days prior to …

BY NANCY GAGNET | MIRROR REPORTER — As local church leaders have embraced a variety of ways to connect to members during the pandemic, all agree that strong faith in God provides a sense of peace and tranquility in this time of uncertainty and unrest. While the intensely polarizing issues that often …

BY NANCY GAGNET | MIRROR REPORTER — When local churches were forced to close their doors in March to combat the spread of the coronavirus, many church leaders began to re-examine and redefine their connections with members.  Nearly all have turned to a robust online presence and, in recent weeks, some churches …

Animal Planet’s Pete Nelson, of Treehouse Masters, is certainly a celebrity, but it was the awe-inspiring treehouses that stole the show during a July 15 ribbon-cutting and dedication. The Cannaley Treehouse Village, located in the Oak Openings Metropark’s 500-acre Beach Ridge Area, is now open. Reservations are being accepted for …