With an auction date set for Monday, July 19, the final day for bids on newspapers owned by the bankrupt Brown Publishing Company is Friday, July 16. The terms of the sale, as well as a listing of creditors and related company information is posted online at www.editorandpublisher.com.

The State Capital Improvement Program (SCIP), better known as the State Issue 1 Program, the Small Governments Capital Improvement Program, and the Local Transportation Improvement Program (LTIP) are beginning their Round 25 funding cycles. Through these programs, financial assistance for public infrastructure projects is available to subdivisions in District 15, which includes the following southern Ohio counties: Adams, Brown, Fayette, Gallia, Highland, Jackson, Lawrence, Pike, Ross, Scioto, and Vinton.

The Greenfield Historical Society will be holdings several activities during the upcoming Wheels of Progress Festival. On Saturday, July 17, the Old Stone Schoolhouse on South Street will be open at 8:30 a.m. for a breakfast of pastries and sausage patties, then for a lunch of brats and hot dogs.

The Farm Service Agency (FSA) is looking for candidates for the FSA County Committee election to be held this November, according to Jim Patton, director of the Highland County FSA Office.

Highland County commissioners appointed of Anneka Collins to the South Central Ohio Regional Juvenile Detention Center Board of Trustees to replace Rodger Marsh, whose term expires in May 2011.

Recently adding the talents of several young women to her impressive staff, owner Beverly Durst is pleased to introduce what she and her coworkers are calling an "all-new Cutting Crew" to her salon on East Main Street in Hillsboro.

The Greenfield City Council discussed budget concerns and the pending issue of recalling two dispatchers with the Greenfield Police Department who were laid off last year due to budget issues.

Three local teens will be traveling to Gillette, Wyo. to compete at the National High School Rodeo Finals, the world's largest rodeo.

The Greenfield City Council considered contracts for City Manager Betty Bishop during the regular council session July 6.
 Council heard the first reading of a resolution authorizing the council chairwoman, Betty Jackman, to extend an employment agreement with Bishop, and a resolution to extend Bishop's interim city manager position.