Valley View levy fails ballot request in Germantown
Valley View school district faced no ballot action as a 6 mill additional operating levy was not placed on the ballot. Board vote would have needed at least a two thirds majority, four members, to approve. Officials plan to restudy needs and aim for November ballot.
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Germantown
Valley View
Montgomery County Board of Elections
Lowell Draffen
Board of Elections
Draffen
Middletown 1977 Annual Report Highlights City Milestones
Middletown’s 1977 annual report touts a good year with the 175th city birthday, a new fire station, and energy conservation efforts. Susan Perkins brought home Miss America honors, while tours, parades, and stadium events fostered local pride. The city began Jefferson Playfield development, expanded safety programs, added 11 police officers, and pursued solar and hydroelectric energy projects. Building permits rose to about 12.3 million as the general fund budget neared one million.
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Susan
Middletown
South Main Street
City Centre
Monroe
Susan Perkins
Roosevelt Boulevard
Division
Mock wedding at LMHS ends with schoolyard ceremony
Two Lemon Monroe High School couples staged a "pseudo wedding" in the courtyard as part of a five year old Family and Marriage class led by Larry Doll and Peggy McCluskey. The event featured Pam and Tom Kilmer as brides and John MacDonald with Mike Hearlihy as grooms, officiated by student teacher Rick Russell. A reception followed in home economics, with guitars, a piano, and a three tier cake while about 80 students watched from within the building.
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Lemon Monroe
Pam
Tom Kilmer
John MacDonald
Mike Hearlihy
Rick Russell
Jesse Mayabb
Vicki Downs
Mark Abernathy
Moss Downs
Donna Strong
Magable
Russell
Monroe Larry Doll
Pegey McCluskey
Lemon trustees oppose motion in annexation suit
Lemon Township trustees filed an answer in Butler County Common Pleas Court opposing a motion to dismiss their suit to block about 244 acres of industrial land near Middletown from being annexed. Defendants argue trustees lack standing as nonowners, while trustees claim ownership of Amanda Cemetery, deleted from the annexation petition, gives them standing and that the deletion and other steps were improper.
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Hamilton
Butler County Common Pleas Court
Lemon Township
Middletown
City of
James Kunkler
Amanda Cemetery
Kunkler
Armco Steel Corp
Rty
Invali
Carlisle Firemen to face police in benefit basketball game
Carlisle police meet firefighters in a 7 pm charity basketball game at Carlisle High School gym. Players nicknamed Speedy Dart Taco Terror Running Bear will headline. Proceeds go to the Society for Handicapped Children on Fairview Drive. Tickets cost $1 and are sold locally or at the door.
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Carlisle
Speedy Dart
Running Bear
Carlisle High School
Society For Handicapped Children
Fairview Drive
Fire at Her House Brings Local Reporter Into Newsroom Fall
Ginger Williams a newsroom intern covered a garage fire at her family home after a propane torch in the garage ignited paint cans. Middletown firemen estimated about 500 dollars in damage with no injuries. She had responded to a false address before reporting the incident.
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Point Journal
Ginger Williams
Poincianna
Bob Wendt
Ginger
James
Middletown
Man Injured in Garfield Street Home Fire
A Garfield Street resident, Jerry Sohrenssen, 22, suffered minor burns and a leg cut escaping a 5 am fire. He said he believed he had put out the flames before the couch rekindled due to a child playing with matches. He was treated at Middletown Hospital and later released. his son was unharmed. Fire caused about $3,000 to the home owned by Pauline Combs and $1,000 to contents.
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Garfield Street
Sohrenssen
Middletown Hospital
Pauline Combs
Indictments in Ohio stolen car ring detail grand jury findings
Nine defendants face 86 counts as Hamilton County grand jury returns indictments after a two year probe by Butler and Hamilton county sheriffs the FBI and the National Auto Theft Bureau. About 36 cars were stolen and stripped for parts sold off with remaining components dumped in the Great Miami River.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Hamilton County
Grand Jury
Great
Miami River
Butler County
Butler
Hamilton Counties
FBI
National Auto Theft Bureau
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McCluskey
Jesse May Abe
Sheckler
Delors Pe
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Orner Crawford
Lemon Trustees File
Blaze
Jerry Sohrenssen
Loul
Marc R. Klein
Les S. Appel
Central Avenue
Nmmmalel
Raali
Uiddietown
Conlin
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