The Losey family is once again setting up a booth at the Greene Countrie Towne Festival for the Hannah Losey Memorial Scholarship.

Mayor Zink has served our city for 27 years of his life, and if only 1 percent of our population would continually step up as he did, this would be a far better community. 

Thank you, Mr. Zink, for your years of committed service and your support for SWAP. I have learned from your example and hope that someday I might also be an encouragement to youths and young idealists as you were to me.

I would like to extend a special "thank-you" to the faculty and staff of Whiteoak and Bright Local for planning and holding the dinner. Your kindness and support have helped me get through what has been and continues to be a very difficult time.

FDR prolonged the Great Depression and Obama is prolonging this mess.vWe can't call it a recession anymore, so shall we say Depression?vA few more facts: A $500 million GM plant is being built in Mexico. We have stimulus money to build solar panels and batteries for electric cars overseas.

Effective July 1, 2011, Highland County Children Services will be merging with Highland County Job & Family Services. The actual physical move will occur on June 20, 2011.

Great story isn't it? Isn't it a shame that the so "Liberal Media" didn't see fit ti give it to you but has seen fit to bring you practically a mile by mile coverage of Palin's latest publicity campaign.

Every county in every state will gather at noon on this day to pray. So far out of the 88 counties that make up Ohio, only 14 are currently scheduled to hold a rally this Sept. 11th.  In southwest Ohio, only Highland county is scheduled, no surrounding counties have a county co-ordinator as of yet.

We are losing two very wonderful public officials. 

  Karen Daniels, who has served the city/town/village (whatever we are now) for a great number of years. She has always worked very hard to provide us with honest , capable and willing hands.

If you agree with the need in society today for more human face-to-face interaction, join us on May 30 and turn off all media for 24 hours. Go next door and meet your neighbor (maybe for the first time), learn about them, get to know them, maybe even learn to love them.

During my recent stay at Heartland of Hillsboro, I realized that I had never been treated more nicely. Everyone there went above and beyond the call of duty to tend to my needs and to make me feel welcome and comfortable.

I want to thank the Highland County Sheriff's Office for providing me with the names of the local beekeepers – Jim Higgins and Geroge Tony Hermes. On May 12, I had a swarm of bees congregate on my front porch. Mr. Hermes gathered up these bees and removed them without being stung! Amazing!

The "Jobs Budget?" All I've seen in response to this budget are layoffs, the end of overtime and scale wages, giveaways to campaign contributors and harassment of teachers, police and firefighters.

In these times of doubt and difficulty, it can be comforting to know there is help available. Samaritan Outreach's mission is to give people strength and provide them with some of the tools they need until they can get back on their feet.

The purpose of this letter is to extend a personal invitation to the Annual Special Olympics for our Highland County children and adults with developmental disabilities. It's hard to fully explain, but when you let them play sports … their whole world changes. They leave a world filled with misunderstanding, fear, routine and frustration to enter a new world of self-worth, friendship, accomplishment and delight.

President Obama appeared alone, walked to a simple podium without the strut often used by his predecessor and made his announcement of an actual mission accomplished without a giant banner, an aircraft carrier as a stage, a warrior costume or a cheering crowd.