Stories by Doug Page
Scouts approve allowing gay youth membership
National leadership of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday to allow gay youth to join the organization, overturning a long tradition of excluding gays. “Scouting is available to all youth,” Doug Nelson, scout executive/CEO of the Miami Valley Council, said after the results were reported. “And our communities are ...
Boy Scouts National Council vote on gays
National leadership of the Boy Scouts of America vote Thursday to allow gay youth to join the organization, overturning a long tradition of excluding gays.Meeting in the Dallas suburb of Grapevine, the 1,400 members of the BSA’s National Council approved a resolution to ban the policy that excluded youth from ...
ODNR to increase patrols following fatal falls
Four major falls — three of them fatal — in the Hocking Hills State Park and State Forest in less than a month has officials increasing enforcement to keep people from wandering off the trails. “Any accident is tragic, no matter the timing,” said Eileen Corson, an Ohio Department of ...
Four local Scout leaders will vote on gay issue
When the Boy Scouts of America meet in Dallas this week to vote whether to allow gay youth to become members, four scout leaders from the Miami Valley will be in attendance. “I have no idea on how the vote is going to turn out,” said G. Douglas Nelson, scout ...
Greene Co. localities weigh emergency dispatch mergers
Facing huge costs to convert their emergency dispatch centers to the latest needed technology, several Greene County localities are moving to abandon the centers and merge.These moves are expected to save taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.The impetus for the change is the the conversion of 9-1-1 centers to the ...
Treasurer: Beavercreek schools face money crisis in 2015
Without any changes, the Beavercreek City School District would start the 2015 fiscal year with $5.2 million in the bank, not enough to open the schools for 2015/16 school year. “That is not enough to pay the bills,” Treasurer Stephen Maag said Thursday. Maag presented the district’s 5-year forecast to ...
Beavercreek seeks state grant for US 35 upgrade
City Council approved Tuesday the next step in eliminating the stoplights on U.S. 35. The three lights are the only ones on the four-lane highway from Dayton to West Virginia. “U.S. 35 has an interstate feel, then you hit the signals in the city,” said Jeff Moorman, city engineer. To ...
Xenia council approves looking at moving administration to former school building
City Council, after rescinding a April 25 vote on an architect’s contract, Thursday approved a contract for plans to renovate the former Simon Kenton school as a city administrative building. The motion passed contained the stipulation the city would not be obligated to pay the full amount if the council ...
Beavercreek woman remembered as dedicated golfer, teacher, coach
Charges are expected in a double fatal accident Wednesday on Interstate 70 near Columbus that killed a noted Dayton-area teacher and golfer. Diana Schwab, 71, of Beavercreek was en route to her daughter’s Gahanna house to drop off her 7-year-old Welsh Corgi when the accident occurred in Franklin County just ...
City officials making plans for moving forward without income tax
City leaders are making plans for how to function without a proposed 1.5 percent earned income tax that voters defeated on Tuesday.Voters defeated the proposed tax 61.5 percent to 38.5 percent, a difference of 2,407 votes.“We need to start the planning process and move forward,” Mayor Vicki Giambrone said. “The ...
Beavercreek tax levy fails
City voters Tuesday defeated for a third time a city income tax — this one a 1.5 percent earned income tax — that proponents said was needed to repair roads and bridges, offset cuts in state money and refurbish its parks and city buildings. But opponents said the 7-year tax ...
Beavercreek schools hope to pass emergency levy in fourth try
For the fourth time in two years, the board of education is asking voters to approve an emergency level that will raise $10.9 million annually for five years to operate the school district. Voters rejected identical 6.7 mill levies in November 2011, March 2012 and November 2012. The district has ...
B’creek schools to place emergency operating levy on August ballot
The School Board decided Friday to place an estimated 6.7-mill emergency operating levy on a special August ballot.An identical emergency operating levy was defeated last November by just over 100 votes.“The school funding picture remains uncertain, as the education budget offered by Gov. Kasich in early February is being reshaped ...
Police conclude investigation of fatal Sugarcreek Twp. crash
Six months after a truck crashed into a tree killing three teenagers, township police have completed their investigation and will present their findings to a prosecutor next week to determine what, if any, charges will be filed.“We should know within a month whether charges will be filed,” said Sgt. Mark ...
For and against groups on income tax raise nearly $11K for campaigns
Opponents and proponents of the 1.5 percent earned income tax on Tuesday’s ballot have raised nearly $11,000 for their respective campaigns. Ohio Campaign Finance Reports filed last week show the Committee for Tax Equity raised $6,300 for its campaign for the tax. Tax Busters PAC, which failed to file by ...
Beavercreek city and township to explore joint fire district
Five months after the city of Beavercreek attempted to annex one of the township’s fire stations and the fire administration building, township trustees have OK’d an exploration with the city of a possible joint fire district. The trustees voted unanimously this week to direct the township administrator “to work with ...
Former Dayton cop pleads guilty to robbing Cambridge bank
A retired Dayton police detective pleaded guilty Tuesday in Guernsey County Common Pleas Court to robbing a Cambridge bank. David M. Hirst, a decorated officer, pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery, kidnapping and two weapons charges. He could face up to 25 years in prison when sentenced May 24. “Under the ...
For and against Beavercreek income tax spar over need
Proponents of a proposed 1.5 percent earned income tax in Beavercreek say the city has changed throughout the decades and needs the tax to repair its roads and bridges, offset cuts in state money and refurbish its parks and city buildings. City leaders say the income tax would be more ...
Beavercreek resident files complaint against city with Ohio Elections Commission
A citizen has filed a complaint against the city, claiming officials illegally are spending tax money to campaign for the passage of a 1.5 percent earned income tax on the May 7 ballot. The complaint sent by John Mitchel, a member of Taxbusters PAC, and received by the Ohio Elections ...
Bomb squad call outs stable for year
Area bomb squads have to treat each suspicious milk jug, possible bottle bomb or suspected military-grade explosive as if it has the potential to do widespread harm.“You have to treat each one like it was the real deal,” Dayton police Lt. Wes Hale, head of the bomb squad, said Tuesday. ...
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