The city of Greenfield will not be able to issue any checks in 2011 unless legislation is passed at an emergency session, scheduled for next week, after the city failed to pass an ordinance establishing permanent appropriations for 2011.
 During its regular session Tuesday, council voted 3-1 to suspend the three-reading rules to consider passage of the emergency permanent appropriations ordinance. Council member Harvey Everhart voted against suspending the rules over what he called "glaring errors" in the legislation.

Workers broke ground Tuesday for the installation of the first Met tower at the Greenfield Industrial Park.
 Greenfield City Manager Betty Bishop said that while this is not the first step in bringing green industry to Greenfield, it is a big step. The tower will be used for data collection regarding the wind speeds in the Greenfield area. The results of the data collection could determine how development in wind energy enterprise progresses in the city.

I wonder what might your greatest wish be this Christmas? This is the one time of year where we are allowed to indulge in our dreaming, why even our Christmas cartoons tell our children this is the time of year, a special time, where dreams can and do come true. They say that if we can dream it, it can happen.  
 Many of us have spent the last several weeks listening to our children telling us what they wish for this Christmas.

The Ohio Senate has rejected 78 appointments made by Gov. Ted Strickland this year, including an appointment to the Southern State Community College Board of Trustees.
 According to a report from the Senate's standing committee on rules, among the 78 rejected appointments was "Judith A. Craig, Democrat, from Washington Court House, Fayette County, Ohio, as a member of the Southern State Community College Board of Trustees for a term beginning Aug. 25, 2010 and ending at the close of business May 11, 2016."

The Lynchburg-Clay Lady Mustangs came close to topping the Georgetown Lady G-Men Monday evening but came up short in the non-league affair, falling 51-44 at Georgetown High School.

James William Hughes, 86, formerly of Hillsboro, died Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 at home in Bexley, Ohio.

This week, the Highland County District Library said goodbye to Erma Gibbs, one of its longest-serving employees.

Hunters killed 21,064 deer on December 18-19, during the weekend of gun hunting, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife.

But the President and the Democratic-led Congress took strong action that avoided the cataclysm that loomed over us. It's easy to say 'the government shouldn't be in the car business.' But the government saved the car business and tens of thousands of jobs in Ohio. The assembly line is running in Lordstown today and they'll be making cars there for generations to come because in the moment that decided our future, steady hands re-wrote the standard of impossibility.