Happy First Day of Fall, Lakesiders!
Lakesiders Share Their Experiences in Denmark
In July 2020, Ryan, Sarah, Isabel, Charles, Beatrice, and Catherine Hamilton flew over 4,000 miles to their new home for a year, a small town near Copenhagen, Denmark, called Jystrup. Had it not been for an old toy shop in Lakeside, the move to another country never would have been possible. Some Lakesiders may remember […]
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Locals Look Back on Happy Years at Old Lakeside School
Colleen Smitek: Community Contributor Everybody remembers their first-grade teacher. And that’s true for two local residents — Tom Lane and Rick Dziak — who attended the stately limestone school still standing on West Seventh Street in Lakeside. While the school closed in 1956, memories of those times still bring joy — and a bit of […]
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The Lakeside Daisy Garden
Guest Blogger: Dottie McDowell In early May, an ordinary looking patch of gravel on Lakeside, Ohio’s waterfront bursts into glorious bloom. The bright Lakeside daisy (Hymenoxys herbacea) is one of Ohio’s most spectacular wildflowers. This long-lived perennial grows where few others can, on nearly barren limestone rock in full sunlight. In early to mid-May, the […]
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