Category: Mohican

Heather Sevigny  |  Correspondent

Autumn officially starts this week, but the temperatures are more reminiscent of summer. Take advantage of these warm days and have some fun. If you feel like venturing out, I’ll be highlighting attractions, activities, and festivals right here, every week. From local music and shows to options for those of you who don’t mind traveling a bit, there’s something for everyone. Be sure to check all activities, cancellations can occur. The events listed are for Sept. 16 – 25. 

Tuesday

Butterfly Release. The 17th annual Valley Hospice Memorial Butterfly Release will take place at two locations this year. Honor your loved ones who have passed away and release a butterfly. Butterflies can be purchased for $7. In case of rain, butterflies can be picked up at the event. The release will take place at 6 p.m. on Tuesday at the Oglebay Park Anne Kuchinka Amphitheater in Wheeling and at 6 p.m. on Wednesday at the Fort Steuben Park Berkman Amphitheater in Steubenville. For more information or to order butterflies, contact Valley Hospice at 877-HOSPICE or visit www.valleyhospice.org.

Sept. 25

Oktoberfest at Mohican. Hosted by the Friends of Wolf Creek Grist Creek Mill, Oktoberfest brings live music and more than 75 types of beer to Mohican. Those over 21 can purchase a ticket for $5 and sample beers from all over Ohio and beyond. Busses will be transporting guests to the event from various spots in the area and the Ohio State football game will be up on the big screen. Games and live music round out the day, as well as a variety of food vendors. The event is scheduled to run from noon to 11 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at www.wolfcreekmill.com, and the bussing routes can be found there also. Tickets for those ages 10 to 20 are $1, and under 10 are free. For…

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When Gary Devine was picked to run for England, the manager took one look at him and asked: “You’re gonna represent your country looking like that?!” Devine had turned up with shocking pink hair, holes in his jeans, a worn out band T-shirt and unlaced Doc Martens. Not that such a punky image stopped him becoming British fell running champion, after a race up Ben Nevis, the UK’s tallest mountain, in 1990. “Years later the manager told us that Gary had changed his life,” smiles Debbie Devine, Gary’s wife and coach. “He said ‘I learned not to judge a book by its cover.’”

Thirty one years on, Devine’s wonderful and often very funny story is told in a new book, Faster! Louder! How a Punk Rocker from Yorkshire Became British Champion Fell Runner. Author Boff Whalley was previously vocalist/guitarist in Leeds anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba, but is a fell runner too. “I got into it after seeing Gary win a race and recognising him from punk gigs,” he says as we all convene on Zoom. “It made me think ‘I could do that’. But Gary’s story is more extreme than mine. It needed writing.”

Devine grew up in hilly Ilkley, where he thought it was “quite normal” to run up and down the moors. “There was a big running section at our school,” he explains. “About 40 or 50 of us would go out on a lunchtime.”

If it was an important race, I’d just have two or three pints in the pub the night before

He was still a schoolboy when a friend of a friend lent him Dead Kennedys’ 1980 Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables album, and his passions turned upside down. “A seminal moment in my life,” he grins. “It was a completely different world. I wanted to run,…

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FYI 

• The Orrville High School Sports Hall of Fame will hold its 31st annual four-person golf scramble on Saturday, Sept. 18, at Riceland Golf Course with play beginning at 8 a.m.  The cost is $45 per person or $180 for a four-person team and includes 18 holes of golf, cart fee, food and prizes.  The fee for Riceland members is $30.  There will be a 50/50 raffle and a skins game ($10 per team, 100% payout) as well.   Proceeds from the outing go toward the continuation of the OHS Sports Hall of Fame Scholarship, awarded annually to graduating OHS seniors.  Contact Kent Smith by phone at 330-347-3163 or by email (orvl_ksmith@tccsa.net) to sign up your team.
• The Dalton High School baseball team will host its sixth annual four-man golf scramble at The Pines in Orrville on Sunday, Oct. 3. Registration begins at 8 a.m. with a shotgun start at 9. Prizes and dinner are included in the cost of $260 per team. We are also in need of hole sponsors. If you have questions or wish to pre-register, please call or text Scott at 330-466-9219.     
• Henry Beun is offering basketball officiating classes for new perspective referees at www.officials.myohsaa.org. For basketball officiating classes, please contact Henry at 330-466-3103 or check out the website www.officials.http://myohsaa.org. 

Area Schedule 

Monday, September 13

BOYS GOLF

Triway at Generals Cup (Wooster C.C.)

Crestline at Loudonville, 11 a.m.

Ashland at Hillsdale (Mohican Hills G.C.), 3:30 p.m.

GIRLS TENNIS

Alliance at Orrville, 3:15 p.m.

Central Christian at Triway, 4:15 p.m.

Chippewa at Marlington, 4:15 p.m.

Massillon Jackson at Wooster, 4:30 p.m.

BOYS SOCCER

Orrville at Triway, 7 p.m.

GIRLS SOCCER

Canton South at Tuslaw, 5 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL

Hiland at John Gleen, 6:30 p.m.

Hillsdale at Mapleton, 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, September 14

BOYS GOLF

Waynedale at Chippewa (Chippewa G.C.), 3:15 p.m.

Tuslaw at Massillon (Legends of Massillon G.C.), 3:15 p.m.

Norwayne at Dalton (The Pines G.C.), 3:30 p.m.

Northwestern at Hillsdale (Mohican Hills G.C.), 3:30 p.m.

Triway at Orrville (The Pines G.C.), 3:30 p.m.

Mansfield at Wooster (Wooster C.C.),…

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Mohican Farms LLC in Blairstown is getting ready to open a farm-to-table restaurant and market in November, offering a healthy alternative to processed food produced who-knows-where.

Today, owners Ryan Herold and Sean Lavery sell what they produce at a farm store on-site, and when it comes to meat, that means a lot of planning and driving to a processor in Pennsylvania.

“Ours are usually about two hours away,” Herold said Friday of places to process their chickens, lamb, pigs and cattle. “There’s not many in New Jersey, and the few there are, it’s impossible to get in. It’s a real problem, since COVID especially.

“You almost have to book like a good year in advance, so I have to really book all my slaughter dates for the next year, which makes it very difficult.”

Warren County’s board of commissioners last week backed a solution, with passage of a resolution in support of someone somewhere within the county opening a meat processing facility.

“I think in Warren County, there are USDA facilities that can do the individual one or two steers or deer, things like that,” said Commissioner Director James Kern III. “What we’re talking about is a much larger scale, because there’s such a backup.”

The board’s resolution also approved by Commissioners Jason Sarnoski and Lori Ciesla does not endorse a specific site, and Kern said he hasn’t heard of any interest in the idea yet.

“What we really want to do is kind of by passing this resolution show that we support the farming community in Warren County,” Kern said. “And should something like this materialize, we want to be a partner in however we can facilitate that wherever the location would be that would want to welcome that in the community.”

In supporting the concept of developing a processing plant in the…

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An Ashland County judge tossed out a lawsuit from Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost against Mohican Young Star Academy

PERRYSVILLE, Ohio — A youth behavioral facility in northern Ohio has won a legal fight against the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, but the state agency that licenses Mohican Young Star Academy says it still plans to “move forward” with the process that would revoke the facility’s license in wake of problems there.

In March, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s office sued Mohican Young Star Academy claiming it was using “illegal and dangerous restraints” against the boys in its care. The facility’s owner and operator denied the allegations.

Attorneys for Yost’s office presented testimony from a former staff member, state inspectors and video of children who claimed they were injured during restraint holds inside the facility.

But an Ashland County judge tossed out the lawsuit.

And just last week, a state appeals court ruled in favor of the facility claiming the state “failed to present evidence” that the conditions at the facility “present a substantial risk of physical or mental harm to the residents…” and that the state failed to prove there were no other legal remedies available besides the state’s request to install a new operator.

Despite the legal ruling, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services said the state still plans to “move forward” with the process to strip the facility of its license citing a pattern of recurring events – including children who claim they were injured during restraints among other issues.

10 Investigates’ own investigation and review of police records and videos, incident reports submitted to the state and other interviews has uncovered a persistent pattern of problems at the facility including:

• staff who allege they have been assaulted by unruly…

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Anthropologists believe our ancient human ancestors spent their time in trees, so it should be no surprise we love treehouses today.

Treehouses of all kinds are experiencing a renaissance.

When an acre-size slice of land in Gold Hill, Colorado, came on the market earlier this year, local resident Jessica Brookhart, 41, snapped it up for $80,000.

The draw for her: The house was a treehouse.

It was a place she could hang out with her husband and two young boys.

“I had never been inside it, but had admired it from a distance,” she said, admitting it was an emotional purchase.

The man who owned the land had built the treehouse with materials from a recycling center in neighboring Boulder. The structure can fit two adults and two children. There’s no bathroom or running water, and a squat potty is outside down on the ground. There’s a camping stove for cooking, and water has to be brought up. From the windows, you can see Longs Peak and the Continental Divide.

“Since I was a little girl, I was obsessed with little mini-houses, or sheds and treehouses,” Brookhart said.

She sometimes rents the treehouse out online, and to her surprise, lots of people want to use it.

“For me, it’s this magical place,” she said. “I have to block off a bunch of weekends just so we can spend time there too.”

Treehouses have proliferated during the pandemic. There are stylish backyard ones built by professionals, and makeshift ones thrown up just to escape the four walls of home. There are listings on sites like Airbnb for treehouses to camp in.

Unlike the rickety treehouses of yore, many of these new ones have been upgraded. Most are still accessed with a ladder, however, requiring you to climb.

As pandemic lockdowns droned on, Nanci and Ethan Butler of Newton, Massachusetts, decided to build a…

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This undated photo provided by Jessica Brookhart shows a treehouse owned by Brookhart in Gold Hill, Colorado. Brookhart bought it recently and occasionally rents it.

This undated photo provided by Aaron Smith, who owns Treecraft Design-Built in Fort Collins, Colorado, shows a Pagosa Springs treehouse Smith and his firm built. Smith said interest in treehouses has increased in the last few years.

This undated photo provided by The Mohicans Treehouse Resort and Wedding Venue shows “Tin Shed” at The Mohicans Treehouse Resort and Wedding Venue in Glenmont, Ohio.

This photo taken by Nanci Butler in 2020 shows her husband, Ethan, in the backyard treehouse they built during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown. About three months after it was built, an oak tree fell on top of the treehouse and demolished it.

This undated photo provided by The Mohicans Treehouse Resort and Wedding Venue shows one of the treehouses at The Mohicans Treehouse Resort and Wedding Venue in Glenmont, Ohio. Guests can enjoy luxury amenities in these treehouses all year at this resort.

This undated photo provided by The Mohicans Treehouse Resort and Wedding Venue shows “Little Red” at The Mohicans Treehouse Resort and Wedding Venue in Glenmont, Ohio. Treehouses at this resort have heat and…

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The last thing a footballer might expect to be berated for on international duty is the colour of his hair, but that’s exactly the fate that’s befallen Manchester City’s Riyad Mahrez and West Ham United’s Said Benrahma.

The pair turned up to play in Algeria’s matches, only to be brought back down to earth by manager, Djamel Belmadi, according to Dzair Daily cited by the Daily Star.

It’s said that Belmadi wanted both to “sport a respectable style without frills” and “a look that reflects the traditions and customs of Algerian society,” after they arrived with bleached blond locks

Frankly, the whole scenario is a bit of a nonsense and reminiscent of the time Ole Gunnar Solskjaer admitted that he didn’t sign a player simply because he had a mohican haircut.

MORE: Serious blow for Liverpool

Clearly, there needs to be respect between manager and players, however, making a player dye their hair isn’t going to make them play any better.

? “I once went to see a player and as he walked out of the dressing room, he had a Mohican (hairstyle). I said to my scout ‘nah let’s go home’, not interested. That was a very short scouting trip.”

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer reveals the shortest scouting trip he had whilst in Norway pic.twitter.com/x1fGrSMWZj

— Football Daily (@footballdaily) March 30, 2021

Moreover, it could drive an unnecessary wedge in the relationship which, internationally speaking, could have a detrimental effect.

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On this occasion both Mahrez and Benrahma acceded to their manager’s wishes in any event.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

PERRYSVILLE — Pleasant Hill Lake is located on the Richland-Ashland County line, approximately 2 miles southwest of Perrysville. The boat ramp and marina are on Covert Road off State Route 95.

The marina is north of the Mohican State Park.

RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy operates and maintains the recreational facilities located on the north side of the reservoir. A beach, vacation cottages, marina, campground, parking area, picnic area, sanitary facilities, and boat ramp are located on the northern shore of the reservoir. The marina has a concession stand and gasoline dock.

The Mohican State Park is located on the southern shore of the reservoir and provides numerous recreational opportunities on and around the Pleasant Hill Reservoir. Mohican State Park operates a lodge overlooking the southern shore in the bend of the reservoir.

There is both primitive and improved camping in the state park, south of the reservoir, on the Clear Fork River. For information of Mohican State Park facilities, contact 419/994-4290. The reservoir is also open to waterfowl hunting during the fall.

Check for water quality advisories: http://publicapps.odh.ohio.gov/beachguardpublic/

HISTORY

The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) owns Pleasant Hill Lake. The lake was constructed in 1938 by damming the Clear Fork Branch of the Mohican River. The lake was originally constructed primarily for flood control in the Muskingum River watershed.

Today, recreation is one of the biggest public benefits. The ODNR Division of Wildlife manages the lake under agreement to provide public fishing and hunting.

The Clear Fork River empties into the western end of the lake. This western end of the lake is shallow with most of the area under less than 10 feet of water. The middle section of the lake gradually slopes to a depth of 20 feet. At that point…

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A charity head shave was among the activities held during a special fundraising event held in Highbridge on Sunday (August 29th).

The popular club in Church Street, Highbridge ran a charity fundraiser in memory of their late manager, Christopher Lambert, with proceeds going to Thrombosis UK.

During the day, Dave Sanders took part in a head shave when Lee Theobold from Theo’s barber shop gave him a colourful Mohican look to raise funds! The before-and-after photos are shown here.

Also, Dennis DeMille, a singer/songwriter from Weston who is a Britain’s Got Talent semi finalist from the 2018 series, also performed during the event. There was also a kids hour, Irish bingo, and a race night.

Kayley Williams, manager of Highbridge Social Club says: “It was a fantastic day and we thank everyone who came along or supported us, raising a great sum for the charity.”

“We were fortunate to have lots of local businesses donate items towards our raffle and tombola.”

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