Wednesday, Oct. 29

Treating

With one exception, area communities have set trick-or-treating hours on Halloween (Friday).

Residents wishing to receive trick-or-treaters should turn on a porch light.

Here is a look at community trick-or-treat hours, along with other related events:

•Geneva — Thursday, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

•Portland — Friday, 6 to 8 p.m.

•Bryant — Friday, 5 to 8 p.m.

•Dunkirk — Friday, 5 to 7 p.m.

•Salamonia — Friday, 6 to 7:30 p.m.

•Pennville — Friday, 6 to 8 p.m.

•Ridgeville — Friday, 6 to 8 p.m.

•Redkey — Friday, 6 to 8 p.m. There will also be a costume party at 5:30 p.m. at the fire station.

•Fort Recovery — Friday, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Parade begins at 5:15 p.m. at Fort Recovery High School and proceeds to VanTrees Park.

Grading

Jay County High School students received their grade cards today. These are the first grade reports of the year.

Cole slaw?

The sale of jazz composer Cole Porter’s birthplace was a duet of sorts, but it was not harmonious.

Two men bought the house at a Miami County tax auction last week, The Associated Press reported. The bidders, however, were not partners — they split the property, which was sold in two separate parcels.

The house where Porter was born rests on two neighboring lots which were divided for the auction last Thursday, said Michele Mullins of the county treasurer’s office.

Local resident Brian Boyce won one parcel with an $800 proxy bid, but a Michigan man outbid him on the second, which sold for $9,000. Boyce said he was considering having the historic house restored and converted into a bed and breakfast.

Keith Wegner, the other bidder, said he also hoped the house could be restored.

Porter was born in Peru in 1891 and wrote more than 1,500 songs for stage, movies and television, including such standards as “I Get a Kick Out of You” and “Anything Goes.”



Deaths

Beth Ann Snyder, 57, 420 East 450 South, Portland.

Bernice Tharp Gibble, 97, 221 E. Main St., Portland.

Ruby Renbarger, 101, AmeriCare Living Center, Portland, a former resident of 704 W. Arch St., Portland.

Genevieve F. Foltz, 86, a resident of AmeriCare Living Center for the past three years, and a former resident of West Arch Street in Portland.

Details on page 5.

Weather

A weather warm-up is on the way.

Lows tonight will drop to around 40 under partly cloudy skies, and high temperatures Thursday will climb all the way into the upper 60s with winds from the south at 10 to 15 mph.

The high temperature Tuesday at the Portland weather observation station was 48, while the low was 37.

The temperature at 7 a.m. today was 39.

A total of .10 inch of rain was recorded between 7 a.m. Tuesday and 7 a.m. today.

Lows Thursday night will be in the mid 50s, with brisk south winds at 15 mph.

Highs Friday under partly cloudy skies will once again be in the upper 60s with a 15 mph south wind.

There is a 30 percent chance of showers Friday night and Saturday morning. The overnight low should be in the lower 50s.

Highs Saturday and Sunday are expected to reach into the mid to upper 60s.

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