NAACP to Host MLK Day Prayer Breakfast in Middletown
The Middletown Area Branch will hold its Annual Rev Martin Luther King Jr Day Prayer Breakfast on January 17 at Tried Stone Baptist Church 621 Lafayette Ave Middletown. Guest speaker is Stephen L Hightower president of Hightowers Petroleum Co Tickets are 10 and available from NAACP executive committee members for more information call 513 425 9366.
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Middletown Area
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Martin Luther King Jr
Tried Stone Baptist Church
Lafayette Ave
Middletown
Stephen L. Hightower
Hightowers Petroleum Co
NAACP
Call
Deadline to vote Feb 8 in Butler County special election
Butler County Board of Elections reminds residents to register by Monday for the February 8 special election. Madison Local Schools seeks a 0.5 percentage point income tax increase to fund about 740000 extra yearly dollars of a 10 million budget. Lakota Local Schools also seeks funding. New voters must submit applications by 4 p.m. to 315 High St. Hamilton. current registrants from November do not re register.
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Butler County Board of Elections
Madison
Lakota
Board of Elections
High St
Hamilton
Three Hospitalized After Minor Middletown Crash
Three people were taken to Middletown Regional Hospital after a Friday evening collision on North University Boulevard. Cora Powers 72 of Middletown drove a northbound minivan on Shafer Street crossing North University Boulevard when struck by Sissy Puccio of Middletown in a Volkswagen Beetle. Powers cited for running a red light. Powers and Puccio treated and released. a child in Puccio’s car unharmed. Powers' daughter also transported with name unavailable.
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North University Boulevard
Cora Powers
Middletown
Shafer Street
Nelbar Street
Sissy Puccio
Robyn Stone
Powers
Stone
Puccio
Middletown Regional
Center Raises Money for Tsunami Victims
About 350 attendees at the Islamic Center in West Chester participate in a Friday khutba focused on death and preparing for dying in light of the Southeast Asia tsunami. Community roundup and obituaries appear on pages B2 and B2 respectively. City Editor Bob Irvin oversees the section.
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Theslamic Center
West Chester
Southeast Asia
Bob Irvin
Largest meth lab found in Franklin Township barn
Warren County Drug Task Force officers uncovered a large methamphetamine operation in a Franklin Township barn on Shaker Road. They arrested Roger Ison and Ralph Kelly, charging illegal manufacture of drugs and possession of drugs, with more charges anticipated. Ison and Kelly are jailed in Warren County.
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Franklin Township
Warren County Drug Task Force
John Burke
Shaker Road
Burke
Warren County
Uties
Ison
Kelly
Ex-city worker case sent to grand jury in theft
John Lyons and a detective testified that Bessie Sloan admitted stealing from the city's retired employees life insurance accounts. After a preliminary hearing Judge Mark Wall bound the case over to the Butler County grand jury amid questions on deposit procedures and missing funds totaling 1476.12.
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Kat Fahrer
Associated Press
Bessie Sloan
City of
John Lyons
Middletown
Sloan
Mark Wall
Butler County Grand Jury
Bonita Drive
Mike Bruck
Richard Bush
Clyde Bennett
Bush
Les Landen
Russell Carolus
Carolus
Bennett
Henderson pleads guilty in county property room case
Henderson, a former Butler County sheriff's office employee, pleads guilty to one count of theft and two counts of obstructing official business in a probe that recovered $2,250 missing funds, cost nearly $30,000 in legal fees, and led to three misdemeanor convictions with no jail time.
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Hamilton
Butler County Sheriff's Office
Donna Henderson
Henderson
Butler County Common Pleas
H.J. Bressler
Lawrence Fiehrer
Sheriff's Office
Fox criticizes progress of Liberty trustees
Butler County Commissioner Michael Fox criticized Liberty Township trustees for delays over more than two years on a JEDD funded infrastructure plan. He named trustees Dave Kern and Christine Matacic, saying incompetence slowed work on the Liberty Interchange and Cox Road extension. The plan would levy a 1.5 percent earnings tax on workers at 95 parcels to fund projects.
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Hamilton
Liberty Township
Butler County
Michael Fox
Fox
Dave Kern
Christine Matacic
Liberty Interchange
Cox Road
Kern
Matacic
Liberty
Mason
JEDD
Six Butler teachers earn National Board certification
Six Butler County teachers were among 211 Ohio educators who joined the National Board Certified Teachers in 2004, as Ohio ranks fifth nationwide with 2,377 board-certified teachers. The piece profiles Eng lish teacher Cynthia Yeckel and others at Edgewood Middle School Harrison Elementary School Wilson Middle School Liberty Junior High School and Hamilton Freshman School.
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Hamilton
Butler County
Ohio
Ohio Department of Education
Cynthia Yeckel
Edgewood Middle School
Melissa Doerr
Doerr
Harrison Elementary
Jodi Booher
Booker
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Coxohio
Ignan
Coxonio.com
By Jessica Brown
Progress of Liberty
Butler
National Board
ODE
National Board For Professional Teaching Standards
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