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

Reverend and Mrs. Danny Shaffer and Mr. and Mrs. Larry Lucas are announcing the forthcoming marriage of their children, Benjamin Shaffer to Courtney Lucas.

Phyllis Miller was hostess of the July meeting of the New Petersburg Social Civic Club at the Rainsboro Methodist Church. Sixteen members answered roll call by using the first letter of their name and giving the name of a first lady with the same first letter.

Students in Southern State Community College’s health sciences programs will gain an increasingly realistic lab experience thanks to the addition of new state-of-the-art equipment. The SSCC Foundation Executive Committee recently voted to allocate necessary capital from the Elmer and Helen Reed Fund for the purchase of a virtual IV simulator, two medication dispensing units, and an additional human patient simulator.

The 4-H Advisory Committee will hold a benefit spaghetti dinner on Saturday, Aug. 13 from 5-7 p.m. in the Wharton Building on the Highland County Fairgrounds. The menu will be spaghetti, garlic bread, slaw and drinks for a donation for $5. Desserts will be available for an additional donation.

Don Branson, executive director of the Southern Ohio Agricultural & Community Development Foundation, was inducted into the Association of Ohio Commodores on June 26. The Association of Ohio Commodores held its annual summer induction dinner in Columbus Ohio, at The Faculty Club. Sixteen people from around Ohio were inducted as new members of the Ohio Commodores.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has announced that former Adams County Prosecutor Aaron E. Haslam, co-coordinator of the Ohio Attorney General's Special Prosecutions Unit, was sworn in today as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney (SAUSA) in the Southern District of Ohio in the United States Attorney's Office.

Ohio's unemployment rate was 8.8 percent in June, up from 8.6 percent in May, according to data released this morning by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS). Ohio's nonfarm wage and salary employment increased 10,600 over the month, from the revised 5,095,000 in May to 5,105,600 in June.

Ohio Valley residents are again under an excessive heat warning as the hot air mass from the Plains states has spread eastward. Yesterday's temperatures in Hillsboro reached 96 degrees and today's high is expected to be near 95. It was already 80 degrees by 7 a.m. Friday.