The following is the Hillsboro Police Report for Friday, July 28.

The Highland County Board of Commissioners has announced it will accept letters of interest for an appointed position on the Highland County Board of Developmental Disabilities for the current term ending Dec. 31, 2014. Send letters to the Highland County Board of Commissioners, 119 Governor Foraker Place, Hillsboro, Ohio  45133.

Working with the Highland County Engineer’s Office, the Ohio Department of Transportation has awarded a contract to DGM Incorporated to replace a bridge on Bald Knob Road, and construction is scheduled to begin Monday, August 1.

U.S. Senators Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), John McCain (R-AZ), David Vitter (R-LA), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), John Cornyn (R-TX), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Daniel Coats (R-IN), Mike Lee (R-UT), Rob Portman (R-OH) and Representatives James Lankford (R-OK) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) today introduced the State Transportation Flexibility Act that would allow state transportation departments to opt out of the Federal-Aid Highway and Mass Transit programs.

The order of the issues is as follows:
 
· Issue 1 - House Joint Resolution 1 - Judicial Retirement Age Constitutional Amendment;
· Issue 2 - Senate Bill 5 Referendum, and
· Issue 3 - Health Care Freedom Act Constitutional Amendment
 

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,” so advises the lead character in “The Little Prince” playing Aug. 5-7 in the Edward K. Daniels Auditorium on Southern State Community College’s Central Campus, 100 Hobart Drive, Hillsboro. Friday and Saturday show times are 7:30 p.m., while Sunday’s matinee performance will begin at 3:30 p.m.  “The Little Prince” is a show for all ages and perfect for the whole family.

Real Living Classic Real Estate is pleased to announce that Kim Boyer has joined the Classic team.

Two Ohio Republican lawmakers appear at odds over how to best deal with the nation's growing federal deficit.

A special meeting of the Hillsboro City Council has been called for 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 27. The meeting will be held at 204 N. East St., in council chambers at the fire station.

Secretary of State Jon Husted today certified 426,998 signatures for a Constitutional Amendment related to the federal healthcare reform legislation, meeting the necessary requirements to place the amendment on the 2011 November ballot. Petitioners needed 385,245 signatures or 10 percent of the total vote cast for Governor in 2010.

The Southern Ohio Agricultural and Community Development Foundation Board of Trustees met recently at the Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center in Columbus, to recognize the recipients of the 2011-12 Educational Excellence Competitive Grant.

The Ohio Heart & Vascular Center is offering expanded cardiovascular service to the surrounding community with the opening of a heart failure clinic in the Ohio Heart & Vascular Center office, Suite 300, of the CMH Professional Building, 630 W. Main St., next to Clinton Memorial Hospital.

The Highland County Farm Bureau will hold its annual dinner meeting, Thursday, Aug. 11 at Jon and Jana Holbrook's farm, 4320 State Route 138, Lynchburg. Reservations must be received by 4 p.m. Monday, Aug. 4.

The 2011 Ohio State Fair opens Wednesday, July 27 for a 12-day run. Country music star and former Hillsboro Festival of the Bells performer Brad Paisley will entertain fair-goers on Aug. 7, the closing night of the fair.

Air Force Reserve Airman 1st Class Chad A. Snavely graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.