Monroe News
Fire rips through Miami U. fraternity house
Firefighters were called to the Phi Gamma Delta House on High Street in Oxford after a fire alarm was triggered in the house, shortly after midnight, police said.When fire crews arrived on the Miami University fraternity, there were visible flames coming from the structure. The two people that were inside ...
Educators retiring from Monroe schools
With 40 years apiece in education, Bob Leahy and Patti Shull are retiring this year from Monroe Local Schools.Leahy has been principal at Monroe High School for 11 years, and for the past year has filled a combination role of principal at both the junior and senior high schools.Leahy has ...
Part of Ohio 63 to be named for fallen soldier
A portion of Ohio 63 will be renamed Friday in honor of Sgt. James C. Robinson Jr., who would have turned 30 years old that day.The Army infantry soldier and 2001 Monroe High School graduate was fatally wounded Aug. 28, 2010, when his unit was attacked by insurgents while fighting ...
Cities, townships vary on prayer at public meetings
Some Butler County cities and townships start their public council or commission meetings with a prayer or invocation, a practice that will be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court this year, in a case coming out of New York state.Hamilton’s city council members take turns starting meetings with an “offering ...
Escaped inmate caught in residential neighborhood
An inmate who tried to walk away from his work duties just outside of the Lebanon Correctional Institution was captured Tuesday evening in Franklin.Authorities shut down Ohio 63 between Lebanon and Monroe in order to set up a perimeter in their search for 35-year-old Stephen Ramey.The Ohio Highway Patrol and ...
Gas, beef prices spike before holiday weekend
The price of two traditional staples of the Memorial Day weekend — beef and gasoline — are jumping just in time for the holiday.Wholesale prices of some grades and cuts of beef set record have reached all-time highs at the same time the region’s gasoline prices have spiked 30 cents ...
Monroe grads dribbling soccer ball 250 miles
Four college buddies could have left Monroe last night and driven to Toledo in about three hours. A short road trip.Or they could be like three Monroe High School graduates — Jake Essig, 21, Derek Garde, 21, and Nick Streibick, 20 — and Isaac Beal, 22, of Greenfield, Ind., who ...
Food drive totals down from 2012
The 2013 Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive brought in just under 50,000 pounds of food for the Shared Harvest Food Bank, which is about 10,000 pounds shy of last year’s totals.The two Hamilton post offices combined to bring in just more than 17,100 pounds of food, which is more than ...
HUD to respond to Middletown’s Section 8 proposal ‘shortly’
The U.S. Housing and Urban Development plans to respond to the city’s proposal and subsequent letters saying it will proceed with the reduction of 1,008 vouchers, according to HUD spokeswoman Donna White.“HUD has not approved its plan at this point,” she said. “We are working on a response and we ...
Healthcare law could mean more oversight, hiring changes for cities
Middletown and Monroe are meeting some of the major objectives of the federal health care law, but it may mean more oversight which means more tax dollars.The Affordable Care Act — more commonly known as Obamacare — takes full effect in January 2014, which means employers will have to offer ...
Police: Woman hired hit man to kill ex-husband
A Warren County woman has been arrested for allegedly trying to hire a hit man to kill her ex-husband.Heather Boling, 28, of Pleasant Plain, allegedly tried to hire a hit man in Indianapolis using Facebook on Thursday, according to Lt. Eric Johnson. Indianapolis police contacted the Warren County Sheriff’s Office ...
Marketing director: Racino ‘a good alternative’ for entertainment
An official for the racino being built in Turtlecreek Twp. spoke Thursday in Middletown about the $175 million development and its impact on the area.Jeff Nelson, marketing director for Miami Valley Gaming and Racing LLC, was guest speaker at the monthly Old Jocks Club meeting at Wildwood Golf Club, and ...
Chamber board picks a Middie graduate for its top spot
Rick Pearce has been hired as the new president and CEO of the Chamber of Commerce Serving Middletown, Monroe and Trenton, the chamber’s board of directors announced Thursday.Pearce, a 1981 Middletown High School graduate and a 1989 Miami University graduate, will succeed Dick Slagle who had been leading the 500-member ...
Countywide tornado siren policy eliminates confusion
Tornado and wind related events killed nearly 25 Ohioans in the past five years, despite advances in how people are alerted of strong storms.Experts agree there isn’t one perfect plan for alerting those in the storm’s path, but say the key is having several systems in place to ensure there ...
New brew business set to open
Brent Osborn is building it, now he’s hoping customers will come to his new specialized home brew store.Home brewing has been a growing industry, said Osborn, who will open Osborn Brewing at 820 Lebanon St. It’s seen a 20 percent to 25 percent annual growth for the past seven years, ...
Filly named after World War II vet’s late wife
Bill Wilch has been “floored” by the sight of a filly by the same name again. When Wilch, 89, first saw Mary Routson at Monroe High School in 1940, he said: “She took my breath away as soon as I seen her.” It happened again Saturday. That’s when Wilch, a ...
Ohio 63 extension project set for hearing
A plan years in the making designed to extend Ohio 63 from Ohio 4 to Wayne-Madison Road, and open untold economic development opportunities west of the Great Miami River, will finally be presented to the state. The Butler County Transportation Improvement District will get about 15 minutes to make its ...
Civil lawsuits cost local governments millions
More than 100 lawsuits against city, township and county governments in Butler and Warren counties have resulted in almost $10 million in payouts over the past five years, a Middletown Journal/Hamilton JournalNews analysis of city and court records found.But because the majority of those civil cases were settled by governments’ ...
Fire Department seeks resident volunteers
The Monroe Fire Department is evaluating the implementation of a Community Emergency Response Team, or CERT. The CERT would be a group of residents that receive specialized training to assist First Responders in major emergencies or disasters.Participants would receive training in the following areas: Managing utilities and putting out small ...
Free downtown event comes with high price tag
When the Broad Street Bash concert series started in the summer of 2007, organizers saw it simply as a way to “get people to come down to Middletown after a work day and get some free entertainment.”Six years later, the Bash has blossomed into one of the premier summer entertainment ...
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