Mark your calendars for Friday, July 21 when the City of Hillsboro is sponsoring the second moonlight swim of the season at the Hillsboro Swimming Pool at 635 West Main Street.  

The boil advisory for N. West Street from Chariss Avenue going north including all of Pea Ridge and Quail Run Complex has been lifted.

Someone once asked Margaret Mead, the famous anthropologist, when civilization started. She responded with an event, not a time. She referenced the discovery of one of our ancient ancestors whose bones showed a fractured femur that had been set and healed. Her reasoning was that this is the first evidence of one human being caring for another, hence the beginning of civilization.  

A boil advisory has been lifted by the city of Hillsboro for North West Street from Chariss Avenue going north and including all of Pea Ridge and Quail Run Complex.

Longtime Hillsboro Realtor and community leader Donald E. Fender, Jr. passed away on July 4, 2023. He was 85.

A boil advisory that had been issued for North West Street from Chariss Avenue going north including all of Pea Ridge and Quail Run Complex in Hillsboro has been lifted.

On Independence Day, July 4, let us not forget to think about the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence and the prices many paid for their respective commitments to forming a new nation.

The Hillsboro Indians hosted a youth football camp this June.

A boil advisory has been issued by the city of Hillsboro for North West Street from Chariss Avenue going north, and including all of Pea Ridge and Quail Run Complex.

The Hillsboro Garden Club held its June meeting at Floral Hall on June 27.

Last week, the attempted rescue of four playboys and a youth in a private sub off the wreckage of the Titanic pushed most other things – even Donald Trump – out of the headlines. We sucked in information with great interest; the news pundits and their experts weighed in. I may have missed it, but I didn’t hear anyone questioning the expense of the rescue nor ask who is paying the bill.  

If you haven’t checked your calendars, the Fourth is on a Tuesday this year, so the annual Festival of the Bells in Hillsboro will be held July 6-8. While you’re enjoying the festival, be sure to check out Pioneer Day, sponsored by the Highland County Historical Society, at the Scott House on Saturday, July 8, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. You’ll be glad you did. 

Earlier this month, 19 Hillsboro High School students had the opportunity to travel to Costa Rica for nine days. 

I woke up the morning of June 18 with a surprising thought. The Hillsboro High School class of 1968, of which I am a member, had its 55th reunion the previous evening, June 17 at the Orpheum in uptown Hillsboro. The thought was this: How are you supposed to feel when your 55th reunion is now in the rearview mirror? Old? Over the hill? Washed up?