OTTAWA – Visitors to the 14th edition of the Putnam County Senior Center Expo on Friday walked through a unique entrance. Outside the front doors of Ottawa Elementary School was an enlarged version of a colon. Walking through the inflated exhibit, guests were reminded of the importance of colonoscopies.

OTTOVILLE – After 65 years as a barber, Jerry Hohlbein, put down his clippers and retired on June 11.

BLUFFTON/EUGENE, OR. — Apparently, he wasn’t done yet.

OTTAWA — For first responders, interactions with the public are typically tense, a consequence of misadventure in any of a variety of ways. Last Thursdays interactions, at least in part, weren’t typical.