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Put-In-Bay Events Schedule 2023 Released! It's time to start planning your Put-in-Bay Vacation! The Put-in-Bay Visitors & Convention Bureau Put-in-Bay Events schedule has been finalized, and the central reservation center is booking Put-in-Bay's most popular hotels, resorts & home rentals at a record pace. This season looks to be one of the best ever! April [...]
Local Events Sponsorship Dollars Available From Lake Erie Shores & Islands 2020 Local Events will get a little financial help thanks to Lake Erie Shores & Islands, the destination marketing organization for Erie and Ottawa counties, is re-introducing its popular grant program for events taking place in 2020. Three grants are now available, including a Conference [...]
Put-in-Bay October News 2018 Water Snake Fungus The once-threatened Lake Erie water snake now faces a new foe. It is snake fungal disease, a condition characterized by scabs or crusty scales, premature separation of a snake’s outermost skin layer, white opaque cloudiness of the eyes, thickening of the skin, swelling of the face, skin ulcers, lesions, [...]
Put-in-Bay News August 2018 BACK FROM THAILAND Sara Booker Sheehan was in Thailand traveling with her daughter Josie early this past month. Knowing Sara, we’re sure she got a lot of interesting ideas to feed her creative talents. You can see some of her work at Local Color at the Keys. #1 BUS DRIVER ON PUT-IN-BAY [...]
Kellys Island News Kellys Island Docks DOCK REPAIR August is a month filled with exciting Kellys Island News events. August 4th is the Make-a-Wish poker run and Arts & Crafts Show at the Kellys Island History museum. August 5th has the Make-a-Wish benefit swim and Cops and Bobbers and at 11:00 stop by the Glacial Grooves [...]
The talk of Put-in-Bay Island in July was the tearing down of the historic house “Seven Gables” cottage in the Shore Villas subdivision just east of Perry’s Monument. The historic house, named for its seven gables, canopies over the windows and doors, was built in 1885 according to tax records. President Howard Taft stayed at the [...]
Put-in-Bay Diary June 2018 Fri., June 1st - The Put-in-Bay High School Class of 2018 graduates on the plaza at Perry’s Monument. After the hour-long ceremony, the graduates, their families, and friends head to the Put-in-Bay Yacht Club for a graduation party. The first day of a long schedule of Put-in-Bay June Events! Sat., June 2nd - [...]
Put-in-Bay Tunnel Entrance Port Clinton Side Just in time for expected record Easter Sunday crowds, the highly anticipated Put-in-Bay Tunnel will open for traffic on Sunday, April 1st at 6:00 am. The 15 million dollar 4-year Put-in-Bay Tunnel project is expected to accommodate over 125,000 cars each of the peak summer months of the Lake [...]
Lake Erie Island Consortium meets. The 2017 Annual Meeting of the Lake Erie Island International Consortium (LEIIC), met on Middle Bass Island in June. Thanks to excellent planning, staggered arrivals were not a problem as attendees were driven to the Middle Bass-East Point Preserve to observe bird banding with Tom and Representative Bartlett. After lunch at the [...]
The War Between the States began on April 12th, 1861, when Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter, a key fort occupied by Union troops in South Carolina. Like in any war, the problem of prisoners of war had to be dealt with. In the early part of the war, prisoners from both sides were paroled and [...]
