Over the weekend, the Lynchburg-Clay Mustangs split two games, defeating the North Adams Green Devils, in Southern Hills League play, but losing the following night in a non-league game with the Miami Trace Panthers.

The Highland County Board of Commissioners met for their organizational meeting Monday, and re-elected Shane Wilkin as board president.
 Commissioner Tom Horst made a motion that Wilkin remain as president, and that Horst remain as vice president. Commissioner Jeremy Shaffer seconded the motion, which was passed 3-0.

The following is the Hillsboro Police Report for Jan. 9, 2011.

Matthew McCammon, son of Sean McCammon and Carol McCammon of Lynchburg, has been accepted to the University of Northwestern Ohio in Lima.

Michael Smith was honored at the 2010 Ohio Scholastic Soccer Coaches Association for making the All-Ohio Soccer Team on Jan. 9, 2011 at the Villa Milano in Columbus.

Edward Charles Chapman, 89, of Sardinia, Ohio, the Buford Community, died Friday, Jan. 7, 2011 at the Ohio Veterans Home in Georgetown.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for much of southern Ohio, including Highland County, for Tuesday, Jan. 11.

In a ceremony in the Ohio Senate chamber where he began his political career as a state senator in 1979 at the age of 26, John R. Kasich took the oath of office at 12:08 a.m. Monday, Jan. 10 and became the 69th governor of the state of Ohio.

Pauline Eloise Deininger, 90, of Lynchburg, Ohio died Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011 at the Laurels in Hillsboro.