FRONT PAGE HIGHLIGHTS OF JANUARY 12 - 18

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Music maker
Upper Sandusky resident Helen Wright sits at the digital organ at First Lutheran Church in 2003, when the organ was new. Wright is retiring as a Sunday school teacher after about 65 years, but will continue to play the organ once a month at services.
(Saturday January 12, 2007 Daily Chief-Union)


Alice Swartz
Swartz retires as treasurer of Wyandot County Council for Birth Defects after 31 years
By ALISSA PAOLELLA
Staff writer

Before she even imagined it would affect her life, Alice Swartz volunteered to be the treasurer of the Wyandot County Council for Birth Defects in 1976.
(Monday January 14, 2007 Daily Chief-Union)



Daily Chief-Union/Alissa Paolella
Pleading not guilty
Raymond Arnold Longworth (left) looks through paperwork in Wyandot County Common Pleas Court on Wednesday morning with attorney Todd Workman. Longworth plead not guilty to charges of attempted murder, abduction, felonious assault, attempted felonious assault and two counts of failure to give notice of change of address as a sexual offender. A trial has been set for Feb. 13.
(Wednesday January 16, 2007 Daily Chief-Union)



Daily Chief-Union/Alissa Paolella
Volunteer members
New board member Laura Ketter (right) and returning member John Vogel, of the Wyandot County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, sign their oaths of office during the board’s organizational meeting Thursday evening.

(Friday January 18, 2007 Daily Chief-Union)