HILLSBORO — At the inaugural New Year’s Hardwood Classic held Saturday at the Southern State Community College’s Patriot Center, Fairfield sophomore Brody Smith put on an impressive showing, including a second-half run of scoring 19 consecutive Fairfield points en route to a 53-30 win for the Lions…

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities (DODD) Director Kim Hauck and Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) Director Pamela Boratyn Friday unveiled the first of 29 planned universal changing stations at Ohio rest areas. Located at the newly redesigned I-71 rest…

The McClain Lady Tigers varsity basketball team overcame a slow start to defeat conference foe Washington 43-34 Saturday afternoon in Greenfield. The win was McClain’s 11th straight and improves their overall season record to an impressive 12-1 and a perfect 6-0 in the Frontier Athletic Conference…

By Angela Shepherd GEVS The Greenfield Exempted Village School District Board of Education held its organizational meeting on Jan. 8, 2025. In the first meeting of the year, as mandated by Ohio law, the school board set meeting dates for the year, elected board leadership and committee members,…

By Kenneth Schrupp The Center Square Arsonists have been caught on camera lighting fires across Los Angeles as the city burns, highlighting the role of crime and homelessness in the area’s deadly wildfires.  In 2023, City Journal reported on how the Los Angeles Fire Department spent approximately…

As projected, Highland County set a record for permissive sales tax receipts collected for a fifth consecutive year in 2024, according to a report by county auditor Alex Butler at the Wednesday, Jan. 8 commissioners meeting. His report also included an update on soon-to-be-released tax rates for…

Highland County Economic Development Director Julie Bolender provided a 2024 report on local economic progress during Highland County commissioners’ Jan. 8 meeting. As previously reported, Bolender was hired in 2021 to lead the economic development department, working in conjunction with both the…

By Shirleen Guerra The Center Square Jimmy Carter, first former American president to live to 100, was eulogized at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday and will be remembered before a second service and burial back in his Georgia hometown of Plains. Five living presidents – Joe Biden, Bill…

By Madeline Armstrong The Center Square Three major wildfires are tearing through Southern California while firefighters struggle to contain them with major Santa Ana winds getting up to 100 mph. As of Wednesday morning, two people have been killed and over 1,000 homes, businesses and other…