OTTAWA – Ottawa-Glandorf High School has earned the College Board AP® Computer Science Female Diversity Award for achieving high female representation in AP Computer Science Principles. Schools honored with the AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award have expanded girls ’access in AP computer science courses.

We are all well-accustomed to the trials of Ohio winters – cold mornings, snowy roads and early sunsets. Another common aspect of these winters is the propensity to develop exacerbations of chronic pain ailments. Knees and hips become achier, walking becomes more difficult and sleep becomes less restful. Many of these issues are a reflection of the colder temperatures and changes in barometric pressure, which can affect your neck, low back, shoulders, hips and knees.

A memory of an iconic structure shared by many in Putnam County is likely the image of small brick buildings that dot the countryside sitting beside the field crops. In decades past, these countryside neighbors of agriculture were the foundation of rural education in the form of one-room schools. These little red brick or white frame one-room schools used to dot the landscape every two miles, which was the range of their school district. Citizens within the two-mile school district elected their school board, who then in turn selected the teachers and handled the tax levies and maintenance of the school building.

OTTAWA – Sixth students at Ottawa Elementary have developed special devices to assist another student in holding a pencil.