Chairman Robbie Brown congratulates Sandy Bennett, the new Chocolate Champion of Vermilion. Sandy took the blue ribbon with her Chocolate Chip Cookie DoughTruffles. Celia Drop won second place with Oreo Cheesecake Truffles. Doris Stwan won third place with her Texas Sheetcake. Honorable Mentions went to Shirley Koachway, Dr. John Cann and Connie Thomas. More than 1,000 visitors enjoyed nearly 100 entries at the festival this year.

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This book was recommended by Jessica Gibson.

“This book even goes into the basic principles of paranormal investigation!”

Bagans brings you behind the cold walls of some of the world’s most haunted prisons, hospitals, insane asylums, hotels, slaughterhouses, and mansions. He leads you on a terrifying ride through a vortex of dark energy– places where innocent humans suffered beyond reason and still cry out for help.

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“This book even includes bread recipes!  Yum!”

Professional baker Ramona Gallagher is a master of an art that has sustained her through the most turbulent times, including a baby at fifteen and an endless family feud. But now Ramona’s bakery threatens to crumble around her. Literally. She’s one water-heater disaster away from losing her grandmother’s rambling Victorian and everything she’s worked so hard to build. When Ramona’s soldier son-in-law is wounded in Afghanistan, her daughter, Sophia, races to be at his side, leaving Ramona as the only suitable guardian for Sophia’s thirteen-year-old stepdaughter, Katie. Heartbroken, Katie feels that she’s being dumped again — this time on the doorstep of a woman out of practice with mothering.

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In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women–black and white, mothers and daughters–view one another.

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Federal, state and municipal tax forms are available now at the library.

Get help filling out your forms. Trained specialists from the Tax-Aide program will help prepare federal and state income tax forms Tuesdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. beginning Feb. 3. Call 967-3798 to make an appointment. Tax Aide is a free program sponsored by AARP and the IRS that helps seniors and low– to moderate-income taxpayers do their taxes.

So you think you’ve got a winning recipe for our fifth-annual Chocolate Festival? Great! We can’t wait to try it! The festival is Saturday, Feb. 4 from 1 to 3 p.m. during the town-wide Ice-A-Fair. Six ribbons will be awarded and there’s still time to enter! Let us know you’re coming  by calling 967-5605 or emailing robbiebrownkw@gmail.com. Then bring 4 dozen sample-size servings to the library Saturday, Feb. 4 between 11 a.m. and noon.

This Friends of Ritter fundraiser is open to the public. Sample the delicious entries for 50 cents a taste and cast your vote for the next Chocolate Champion of Vermilion!

There are still a few seats left at the next session of our popular program on using ereaders on Thursday, Jan. 26 at 6:30 p.m. Call 967-3798 today or sign up on the online calendar. Samantha Chada, emerging technologies librarian at Sandusky Public Library, will demonstrate how to browse for, check out and download free ebooks from the library and share other resources that will help get you started and keep you going!