Mike lives in Jackson Township and works at BDI (Bearing Distributor Incorporated). He has worked in this type of business for more than 20 years. Mike also teaches at Pellegrino Music Center in Canton. He is married and has two children—Jacob, who is 14, and Isabelle, who is 12.…

Patti Hoover is an Application Development Architect for Goodyear, with the responsibility of assuring tire and compound recipes are downloaded to each plant’s computers correctly. That’s a big job, and she has prepared for it with bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The University of Akron. It…

When Phil Shirley was a student at the University of Kansas, he took a job at the campus library and found he liked the work more than he had liked any other job. That led to an academic focus in library science, and he went on to earn his master’…

Librarian by day, flutist by night, principal flutist Karen Perone grew up in the small town of Delevan, NY. After a failed attempt at playing the piano, she took up the flute and piccolo in the sixth grade. Growing up in this rural community meant you either played in the…

Left to right: Neal Frey, JoAnn McConnell, Tom Roblee, Joan Wenzel, Tim Hilton If you have followed the music scene of local school systems the last 25 or so years, you are aware we have steel bands in the Tuscarawas Valley. It’s a surprise to some, given the distance…