The Highland County Land Reutilization Corporation (land bank) is one step closer to obtaining state grant funding, as an application has been turned in for the new round of the Building Demolition and Site Revitalization Program while the land bank continues to utilize funding from the program’s first iteration.
Bright Morning Star Films, Paradestormer Productions and Silver Screen Indie are in development for a feature film based on the award-winning book “The C.R. Patterson and Sons Company: Black Pioneers in the Vehicle Building Industry, 1865-1939” by Christopher Nelson, as seen on the popular TV show “The View.” The film is under the working title “Driven.” A separate documentary is being produced alongside the feature film.
The 52nd annual Ernie Blankenship Memorial Radio-Telethon will be held March 27 at the Hillsboro Orpheum and at McClain High School in Greenfield. In addition to taking donations and pledges in person and by telephone that evening, Hillsboro Rotary Club will again auction several items that have been donated during the event.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted Friday announced dozens of transformational projects that will significantly improve access to healthcare across many of Ohio's Appalachian communities.
Registration for the Adena Greenfield Medical Center Community Council golf outing is now open. The first-year event, taking place June 28 at Buckeye Hills Country Club in Greenfield with a 9 a.m. shotgun start, will be an 18-hole scramble format.
The Ohio Arts Council (OAC) board announced approval of 122 grants totaling $343,922 to support Ohio artists, arts and cultural organizations, students, educators and public arts programming at its March 20 meeting.
The local Lady Mambas seventh grade 13U AAU select basketball team battled in the 2024 Beavercreek Tournament but fell in the finals to Kentucky Storm Elite, 46-38.
Over three and a half years after being indicted, a Leesburg woman was sentenced to community control recently after pleading guilty to grand theft of a motor vehicle.
A Greenfield man was sentenced to six years in prison Friday afternoon after pleading guilty to a combined five charges in three separate cases in Highland County Common Pleas Court.
A Chillicothe man was sentenced to community control in Highland County Common Pleas Court recently, after pleading guilty to meth possession earlier this year.
Southern State Community College will be offering a new training opportunity beginning in April. The Court Officer Basic Training Program, to be held at the Greenfield Workforce Development Center, 1300 Jefferson Street in Greenfield, kicks off April 23.