July 2025

In March of this year the American Red Cross published training about using chest compressions as a part of performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and how important maintaining the proper compression rate is to the patient’s survival. How those compression rates are remembered have been a secret among paramedics for years, but the training reveals the ironic truth that “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees, with its 103 beats per minute, is an ideal rhythm for CPR.

COLUMBUS GROVE — The St. Anthony of Padua Parish Festival will be held Saturday and Sunday.

OTTAWA – “It takes a community,” said Kaylee Wilhelm, social services and volunteer coordinator for Putnam County Home Care and Hospice. She was referring to the two days of Good Grief Fun Camp held last week at Trinity United Methodist Church.

What do Gilboa’s Band Stand burning down, the “Gilboa Twig Benders Mother’s Club,” and poetry, all have in common? If you answered that they were all featured, at one time or the other, in the now defunct “The Gilboa Gazette” newspaper, you were right.

When we last left Pandora’s Paul Nusbaum, he was somewhere on the backroads of Putnam County on his steel steed (read: bicycle). He lives on Road O, which, in his case, the “O” stands for “Open Road.” And it is on that open road, that Nusbaum has logged close to a phenomenal 150,000 cycling miles, and counting.