Community

Students in Sharon Sealts’ kindergarten class at Fort Jennings Elementary include, front from left, Eleanor Miller, Amelia Nichols, Amelia Kriegel and William Neidert; row two, Talen Slattman, Urban Dickrede, Jase Schmerge, Sawyer Garberson, Lincoln Farling, Emmett Johnson and Donovan Dietrich; and back, Lucas Rue, Ambrose Hoersten, Madix Metzger, Crew Bartley, Carter Louth, Ansley Pate, Kali Stechschulte and Lauren Knippen. Robert Stegeman was absent. (CherryRoad Media/Nancy Spencer)

4 a.m. My alarm rings and I get up to start another day. Daughter Verena gets ready to go across the road to stay with daughter Loretta and her boys until Dustin comes home from work. I always watch at the door to make sure she gets across the road and to their house okay.

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Students in Kierstin Bowersock’s first-grade class at Franklin Elementary include, front from left, Flynnigan Shobe, Zoey Dull, Jairus Wright, Dawson Karsten, Brody Radabaugh, Rowan Tucker, Olivia Spearman and Oliver Shipley; and back, Lincoln Cross, Huxley Etzkorn, Luke Rutter, Abel White Quinn Short, Nora Redmon and Bowersock. Alexander Everett was absent. (CherryRoad Media/Nancy Spencer)