Book sale NORTH FAIRFIELD The North Fairfield Public Library is having its annual book sale during the North Fairfield community sales. The sale will take place in the library/village meeting room located at 5 E. Main Street, North Fairfield, Ohio from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. All books are sold by donation. Contact the library at (419) 744-2285 with any questions.

If you see Norwalk Police Detective Jim Fulton after Thursday, call him by his new rank: Sergeant. Read the rest of this story in Today's Reflector...

Our ears never sleep. We can't turn them off not even when we are asleep. Every day we are exposed to a world of sounds. Our ears, therefore, need to work very accurately for us to be able to orient ourselves. And still, we take good hearing for granted that is, until we lose it. The importance of our sense of hearing often only becomes evident, when we are in fear of losing it. However, awareness can be the first step toward prevention. How do you detect a hearing loss? People who are affected by hearing loss often have difficulties detecting and accepting this fact. The reduction of the ear's functions usually develops over many years, which is why it takes time to detect the symptoms. How can you test yourself? Are you familiar with the following situations?

Mayor Sue Lesch will kick off Salvation Army Week with a proclamation to majors Robert and Sandra Deidrick of the Salvation Army Friday at the Annual Community Benefit Dinner and Auction at the Colonnade Banquet Facility in Avery. Divisional Commander of the Northeastern Ohio Salvation Army, Lt. Col. William H. LaMarr will be the featured speaker. Guitars Unplugged will entertain the guests.

The case of a suspected road rage incident involving Norwalk attorney Greg Shell has become a case of legal hot potato. On Wednesday, the Norwalk Law Director's office appointed Greenwich Law Director Steve Palmer as a special prosecutor to consider charges in the March 26 incident.

MONROEVILLE It's back to the voters for Monroeville Local Schools. A pair of levies will be on Tuesday's primary election a 3.75-mill emergency tax renewal and a 5.5-mill bond issue.

The Norwalk Reflector has been spammed. These comments have been deleted. Except in the case of spamming, the Reflector will only ever remove the body of a comment and leave some vague boiler plate in its place. In other words, when we take something down because it "violates our terms of service," there will always be a record that we have done so.

Regardless of their feelings about the SmokeFree Workplace Act, readers should be aware that the Reflector's most recent editorial on the subject ('Our View: A sensible smoking solution,' April 19) was loaded with misinformation and opinion-as-fact. Specifically, the claim that "most bar and restaurant patrons do not even belong to a private club' is both glib and beside the point. The implication that private clubs (organizations offering food, beverages, and often live entertainment) do not directly compete with public bars and restaurants (businesses offering food, beverages, and often live entertainment) is a frankly ridiculous conclusion with no basis in reality.

Once while working at another newspaper, a female colleague asked me to retrieve something heavy from her car. When I stuck my head in the driver's door, I couldn't help notice the Wellbutrin prescription clipped to her sun visor for anyone to see. I was eventually to learn that more than half the people in the office were regularly consuming some type of antidepressant-type drug and talked about it as if it were no big deal, just a part of their routine little different from their morning cup of coffee. Read the rest of this story in Today's Reflector...