Alex Nyerges on NPR

By Cox Ohio Publishing | Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 02:54 PM

Alex Nyerges, former director of the Dayton Art Institute, has gone national. Nyerges, now director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, was featured on NPR’s Dec. 1 edition of All Things Considered in a story called “Life is Rarely Still.” According to reporter Noah Adams, Nyerges works 16 hour days and, when not overseeing the museum’s $130 million renovation, works on a novel he is writing. The move from Dayton has evidently done wonders for Nyerges who sat for the interview at the home of billionaire art lovers Louise and Harwood Cochrane. The centerpiece of the museum’s new building will be the Cochrane Atrium. Nyerges said the atrium will be 300 feet long and four stories tall with skylights running the length on both sides. And, he is still zipping around town in his convertible Miata roadster. Just like he did when he lived here. — Khalid Moss, Staff Writer

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First in flight, 78th in women’s health

By Cox Ohio Publishing | Friday, November 28, 2008, 08:00 AM

For the women of Dayton, the good news is that you’re living in the second healthiest city in Ohio for your gender. The bad news that it’s 78th in the country. Those are the findings of Self magazine (self.com), which rated the 100 largest metro areas on a variety of factors affecting the health of women. Bethesda, Md., was cited as the healthiest, while Toledo, Akron, Columbus and Cincinnati all finished in the bottom 20. The only Ohio city rated healthier for women than Dayton was (go figure) Cleveland. Dayton got good marks for air quality, getting colonoscopies and violent crimes against women (other than rape), but not so great for migraines, unemployment and percentage of rapes reported. — D.L. Stewart, Staff Writer

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CNN latest to write Dayton’s obituary

By Cox Ohio Publishing | Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 05:05 PM

Maybe we should all just go into the funeral business. Joining the media rush to write Dayton’s obituary is CNN, which filed a story today, Nov. 19, giving us last rites. Again. “The folks working at Jamestown Industries’ Moraine Plant 2 near Dayton, Ohio, have the weary, haunted look of terminally ill patients, only it’s their livelihoods that are about to die,” the story reports. It goes on to quote Tony Murphy, a foreman at Jamestown Moraine, concerning the closing of the General Motors Assembly truck plant. “It’s going to be a big ripple effect on everyone,” he said, “because when they first closed the first two shifts down, it was devastating then, but this, right here, will seal the nail on the coffin.” Jamestown Moraine warehouses prepare and deliver parts to the General Motors Moraine Assembly truck plant. When the GM plant closes for good on December 23, so will Jamestown Moraine. Sixty-four people will lose their jobs at the supplier, the last of a workforce that once numbered 200.

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Big “deal” in Dayton

By Cox Ohio Publishing | Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 03:22 PM

DATV became part of a Hollywood sound stage as it hosted a live feed for NBC’s game show “Deal or No Deal.” The segment was taped in DATV’s studio on Aug. 1 and is scheduled to air on WDTN (Channel 2) today, November 2, at 8 p.m. Dayton resident Devon Clark was chosen as a contestant and he selected his grandmother, Margaret Rice, as one of his friends to help him on the show. Rice was unable to fly to Los Angeles for the taping, so the production company that produces “Deal or No Deal” contacted DATV to host a live segment. She was set-up in the studio with a two-way live feed to Los Angeles. During the taping she was able to watch the production on a monitor and interact with the program when the time was right. — Contributed item

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Just do it … religiously

By Cox Ohio Publishing | Sunday, November 16, 2008, 12:08 PM

Pastor Ed Young, the founder of the non-denominational Fellowship Church in Dallas, plans to issue a challenge to his parishioners not often heard from a religious leader. This morning he’ll urge his married congregants to have sex for seven consecutive days, presumably with their spouses. Young, 47, said he also plans to “give it a try.” The idea is not to produce more Fellowship Church members, but merely, he says, to combat promiscuous sex. — D.L. Stewart, Staff Writer

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Local duo on Early Show

By Cox Ohio Publishing | Friday, November 14, 2008, 07:35 AM

Local Internet security consultant Mary Leal will appear on the CBS Early Show on Tuesday, Nov. 18, as part of the program’s three-day series on identity theft. Appearing with Leal will be Beavercreek resident Robert Frost, a race car driver whose photo was stolen from a Web site and used thousands of times by Internet romance scammers in Nigeria. Leal, a former Dayton police officer who now has her own consulting firm, has spent several years researching and exposing scammers who use false identities on the Internet to woo victims and con them out of money. — Jim DeBrosse, Staff Writer

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Many try, few are chosen

By Cox Ohio Publishing | Friday, November 7, 2008, 02:35 PM

Tom Bradrick of Centerville, Nancy Fisher and George Hageman of Dayton, and Shirley Harbaugh of Troy are struttin’ their art stuff down in Cincinnati this month. The Cincinnati Art Club’s;Viewpoint 2008 - 40th Annual National Juried Art Competition” features their artwork. Over 400 works were submitted from 24 states; 68 artists’ works were accepted. Show location is Wessel Gallery, 1021 Parkside Place, Cincinnati. Awards totaling $4,300 and one prize with Eisele Gallery representation were announced at the November 7 Reception. Fourteen states are represented in the show, with 37 artists from Ohio. Gallery hours are 2 to 5 p.m. weekends only, Nov. 8-23. Call (513) 574-3180 for details or e-mail info@cincinnatiartclub.com, or Jim Effler at jeffler1@cinci.rr.com. —Pamela Dillon, Contributing Writer

Tom Bradrick’s “Grandma’s Garden”

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