With a microphone in one hand and a bell in the other, Ernie Blankenship, veteran emcee of the Annual Hillsboro/Greenfield Rotary Telethon to benefit the Highland County Society for Children and Adults, will take to the airwaves for the 38th time on Wednesday, March 28. And he's hoping to break some records.

    "I do it because you're helping people. You're helping the little ones, who otherwise wouldn't have this kind of help," Blankenship said.

Congressman Mike Turner, Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, wrote to the president today, requesting an “urgent explanation of [his] comments to President Medvedev in Seoul this morning.”

The Highland County Sheriff's Office is investigating an alleged accidental shooting that took place Sunday evening which injured a 14-year-old in the Sharpsville Road area near Lynchburg.

Hillsboro Mayor Drew Hastings has submitted the text of his address at a hearing Friday by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) to review a modified Electric Security Plan (ESP) submitted by American Electric Power (AEP).

The Hillsboro Police Department is taking applications for a communications officer, after a current dispatcher was moved up to fill the position of a retiring sergeant.

With a show of hands in an informal vote, residents of Paint Township gave support to their township trustees in a decision to join the Paint Creek Joint EMS and Fire District.
The Paint Township Trustees held an open meeting Thursday evening at the AmVets, off North Shore Drive, to gauge public opinion on joining the fire district.

At approximately 6:40 p.m., officers from the Hillsboro Police Department went to a residence in the 500 block of South East Street in reference to information obtained that a possible marijuana grow operation was taking place at the residence.