The Hillsboro Great Oaks FFA Chapter had 6 members show pigs at the fair this year.

This year at the 2026 Highland County Fair Hillsboro FFA was represented in the Dairy Cattle barn by Kenny Shawhan.

The beef barn was a busy place during the week of September at the Highland County Fair as exhibitors brought their cattle to the fairgrounds on arrival day to prepare their week at the fair.

This year at the 2026 Highland County Fair, 136 members of the Hillsboro Great Oaks FFA submitted soybean plants for their Junior Fair projects.

This year, the Hillsboro Great Oaks FFA chapter had 8 members representing the chapter on the Highland County Junior Fairboard. 

On September 6, two Hillsboro Great Oaks FFA members participated in the Highland County Jr. Fair Royalty contest.

Fairfield FFA members spent many hours in the barn working with their projects preparing for the fair. 

Driven largely by declining birth rates but worsened by several other factors, district and school board decisions to close and consolidate schools can draw anger and anxiety from parents and students. Many states are stopping short of forcing mergers, but taking a variety of steps to encourage them.

Early fall coincides not only with the start of the new school year, but also ushers in the season for announcing college rankings. It’s a crowded field for what used to be singularly highlighted by U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best College rankings.

Head Start programs across Ohio are getting grant money from the federal government, a boost after turmoil and funding uncertainty since early 2025.

The Fairfield Local Schools Board of Education will hold a Special Meeting Monday, September 28, 2026 at 4:30pm  in the District Office conference room.

At the September Lynchburg-Clay Board of Education meeting, the board recognized the new staff working in the district this year.

The Greenfield Exempted Village School District Board of Education will hold a special meeting at 6:15 p.m. on Sept. 28 for the following purposes: to consider a resolution waiving competitive bidding for replacement of the water-damaged gymnasium floor.

A Republican Ohio state senator says that Ohio’s five Republican lawmaker-mandated university civics centers are not “right-wing indoctrination,” as a George Washington University Law School professor questioned the need for the centers during a recent panel discussion.

On Sept. 15, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon visited Cleveland for a celebration event with the NFL team, the Cleveland Browns, on their premier youth outreach initiative, the Stay in the Game! program.