A little late for Christmas

George Spradlin shov­els snow from the back steps of Show­place Rent-to-Own at the cor­ner of Mar­ket and Wal­nut Streets on Mon­day morn­ing, Jan. 2. An early-morning snow­fall draped Galion in a blan­ket of soft fluffy white­ness and slowed down­town traf­fic to just a few miles per hour until city crews plowed and salted the main […]

Scrapbook tells how Rudolph went down in history

By HOLLY RAMER Asso­ci­ated Press writer HANOVER, N.H. (AP)—You know Dasher and Dancer and the rest of the gang. But do you recall, the most “Per­fect Christ­mas Crowd-Bringer” of all? That’s how exec­u­tives at Mont­gomery Ward orig­i­nally described Rudolph the Red-Nosed Rein­deer, who first appeared in a 1939 book writ­ten by one of the company’s adver­tis­ing copywriters […]

My brother is home!

Six-year-old William Yocum got a big sur­prise on the day Christ­mas break began in Mrs. Washington’s first grade class at Galion Inter­me­di­ate School. Big brother Pvt. Zach Fuhrer, 19, came to his class on Tues­day, Dec. 20, after hav­ing arrived home from basic train­ing in Texas early that morn­ing. Fam­ily and friends accom­pa­nied Fuhrer to […]

Have you finished your Christmas shopping?

Enjoy the music

Christ­mas music is play­ing until Christ­mas from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. from the sound sys­tem at the pub­lic square. Brian Treisch at Uptowne Out­fit­ters man­ages the music, rotat­ing a col­lec­tion of CDs fea­tur­ing every­thing from Celtic Christ­mas music to the OSU march­ing band. Treisch wel­comes com­ments on the music.

Local ‘cookie walks’ ease holiday baking burden

By Sarah Ein­se­len Inquirer Reporter Sugar cook­ies. Iced cook­ies. Oat­meal raisin cook­ies, triple choco­late cook­ies and but­ter­scotch cook­ies. The stan­dard ones. Potato stick candy. Snow­ball dates. Pfef­fer­nuze. Nut­meg logs. Anise cook­ies, pecan tassies, pineap­ple drops and scotcheroos… What? The Galion Golden Age Cen­ter and Gospel Bap­tist Church held their annual cookie walks on Dec. 10, three […]

Where do you do your Christmas shopping?

Decorating for Come Home to Galion

Come Home to Galion sched­ule 10 a.m. — Activ­i­ties begin at Galion West Shop­ping Cen­ter • Bal­loon Clowns • JB Shuck Auto­graphs • Kids Crafts • Rein­deer • Food Stand • Enter­tain­ment 1 p.m. — Activ­i­ties around town con­tinue • His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety Open House Begins • Library Open House Begins • Cal­en­dar Art Show begins at […]