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Rea Glover Goss participating in Columbus Book Festival

COLUMBUS — Rena Glover Goss, formerly of Adena, is participating in the Columbus Book Festival this weekend, July 12-13, in Columbus. She is one of 70 Featured Authors and will be part of a three-author panel, Fascinating Felonies, at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 13, in the Library Meeting Room 3B. Book signings follow. “Murder on Perrin Run — A Historic Crime in Jefferson County, Ohio” was published by Arcadia Press. Hosted by the Columbus Metropolitan Library and presented by Batelle and the Friends of the Library, the Columbus Book Festival will celebrate authors and reading. ...

I scream, you scream …

GARDNERS, Pa. (AP) — Sam Cooper had just trekked 7 miles through a rain-sodden stretch of the Appalachian Trail when he sat down outside a little country store in Pennsylvania to take on its ice cream challenge. Nearly 40 minutes and 2,500 calories later, the dairy farmer from Chapel Hill, ...

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Experience high tea inside the beautiful Belmont County Victorian Mansion Museum at 11:30 a.m. June 28. In addition, there will be a style show of wedding attire featuring items from the textile collection. Reservations and advance payment are required and can be made at bit.ly/RoseTea25 or by calling 740-425-2926. For more information about the Belmont County Victorian Mansion Museum and upcoming events, visit belmontcountymuseum.com. Information can also be found on the museum’s Facebook page and Instagram. AN Indoor yard sale will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, June 27, ...

Best Sellers By The Associated Press

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil” by V.E. Schwab (Tor) 2. “The First Gentleman” by Patterson/Clinton (Little, Brown and Knopf) 3. “Never Flinch” by Stephen King (Scribner) 4. “Atmosphere” by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine) 5. “With a Vengeance” by Riley Sager (Dutton) 6. “The River Is Waiting” by Wally Lamb (S&S/Rucci) 7. “King of Ashes” by S.A. Cosby (Pine & Cedar) 8. “Great Big Beautiful Life” by Emily Henry (Berkley) 9. “Nightshade” by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) 10. “My Friends” by Fredrik ...

Explore Dysart Woods at Ohio County Lunch With Books

WHEELING — The Ohio County Public Library’s next Lunch With Books program will focus on Dysart Woods. The program will take place at noon on Tuesday at the library in downtown Wheeling. Ohio University Associate Professor Jacqueline Yahn will transport guests to the trails of Dysart ...

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BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” and its music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds. In four-part ...