Organizers of the 2011 Festival of the Bells are saying the Friday night concert featuring The Band Perry drew in the biggest crowd in festival history, with numbers estimated near 18,000 people.
 "There is no doubt Friday night was bigger than Taylor Swift (in 2007)," said festival entertainment committee chairperson Rick Williams. "We estimated back at that time it was 17,000, give or take. So speaking with our promoters and looking out from the stage, speaking with the police department, everyone is in agreement that there were more people. Now, if that's 800 more people, or 1,000 more people, we don't know. But there was no doubt more people."

Organizers of the 2011 Festival of the Bells are saying the Friday night concert featuring The Band Perry drew in the biggest crowd in festival history, with numbers estimated near 18,000 people.
 "There is no doubt Friday night was bigger than Taylor Swift (in 2007)," said festival entertainment committee chairperson Rick Williams. "We estimated back at that time it was 17,000, give or take. So speaking with our promoters and looking out from the stage, speaking with the police department, everyone is in agreement that there were more people. Now, if that's 800 more people, or 1,000 more people, we don't know. But there was no doubt more people."

Thanks to the State Library of Ohio, two databases have been added to the Ohio Web Library resources page.

The following 4-H members met the requirements and will represent Highland County 4-H at the state fair (l-r): Megan Thompson, Kurstin Wilkin, Abby Cornele, and Michaela Chaney.

Ann Joan Rehark, 90, of Hillsboro, died Monday evening, July 4, 2011 at the Laurels in Hillsboro.

Evelyn Elizabeth Roush, 95, of Hillsboro, passed away Monday, July 4, 2011 at The Laurels in Hillsboro.

Forty-eight graduates of Southern State Community College’s program in associate degree nursing were recognized during a recent pinning ceremony at the college’s Patriot Center on Central Campus in Hillsboro.

Hey, before I forget, did you hear the one about the bartender and the three lawmakers at the Ohio Statehouse? A Republican senator, a Democrat House member and the governor walk into the new Statehouse bar. The bartender says, “What is this, some kind of joke?”