Benton Ridge
Lifestyle
Green Jelly Jams: The self-declared 'worst band ever' comes to Ottawa Tavern
The world’s worst band was there for me on one of the most harrowing days of my life. So there I was seated at my desk chair on my lunch break on an unseasonably cold day in August a few years before the pandemic, holding the phone receiver which has gone dead on the other end, and I have one thing on my mind. I need a Green Jelly tattoo. And I need it now. Some background: I’m an at-birth adoptee who had been searching for my birth mother since the ’90s. Finally, thanks to an adoption “search angel” I got a lead. Then came the morning of Aug. 2, 2018. I'd tracked down my birth mother and on that day on my lunch break I decided to reach out and call her. I'd previously sent her a letter with my photograph in it, inviting her to call me but hadn't heard anything back. So I decided to hell with it, I'll call her. Phone rings. Rings again. "Hello?"
First Haiku Trail in northwest Ohio opens
VAN BUREN, Ohio — The newest feature in the Ohio State Park system has come to northwest Ohio and it features a three-line, 5-7-5-syllable rhythm of writing rooted in Japanese culture. The Haiku Trail at Van Buren State Park is only a half-mile long, but it’s not the kind of experience meant for rigorous workouts. It’s a place to take the time for a slow, peaceful walk to cleanse your mind of stress and absorb some of nature’s beauty. Yes, this is your Zen moment because there’s haiku to read along the way, attached to trees every few feet. Located along what had been known as Lakeshore Trail, the Haiku Trail at Van Buren State Park opened last week. It is Ohio’s second state park to get one, the first being Hueston Woods State Park in southwest Ohio.
It’s essential to note our commitment to transparency:
Our Terms of Use acknowledge that our services may not always be error-free, and our Community Standards emphasize our discretion in enforcing policies. As a platform hosting over 100,000 pieces of content published daily, we cannot pre-vet content, but we strive to foster a dynamic environment for free expression and robust discourse through safety guardrails of human and AI moderation.