Ferndale building plans are on hold
To build a new Ferndale courthouse in place of the aging one in a former mattress factory, city officials saved money for a decade and reviewed plans for the last three years. The plans called for the project to cost as much as $9 million, and the proposals included a possible expansion of the city's police station and renovation of City Hall.
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Old favorites and #8216;Once Upon a Mattress, and #8217; and #8216;Sound of Music and #8217; on regional stages
By NANCIANN CHERRY BLADE STAFF WRITER FINDLAY Fort Findlay Playhouse opens its 2010-11 season Thursday night with Once Upon a Mattress, the musical comedy based on the fairy tale of the princess and the pea. With music by Mary Rodgers (daughter of composer Richard Rodgers), lyrics by Marshall Barer, and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Barer, the plot revolves around the socially
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A gold-medal collection
SMYRNA -- When Kenneth Brown began collecting antiques 50 years ago to decorate his Old New Castle home, the first thing he bought was a four-poster bed with a 4-foot-high mattress.
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Mattress stack catches fire, draws responders
HUNTINGTON -- A stack of mattresses beside a garage near the 600 block of 6th Avenue caught fire just before 3:30 p.m. on Friday.
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