Middletown Health Commissioner Takes Dual Role Leaders
Middletown health commissioner Dave Winfough will also direct environmental health after Duane Stansbury resigns to lead Clark County environmental health. Carla Ealy is promoted to supervising sanitarian. the department seeks a replacement but budget constraints may prevent it. Staffing remains tight with three full timers and one part timer needed for full operations. Summer festivals will keep the department busy and Winfough will inspect the Ohio Balloon Challenge at Smith Park July 23-25.
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Winfough
Health Board
Ealy
Stansbury
Middletown
Wintough
Clark County
Easy
Smith Park
Ma Ona
Dog day cicadas arrive as calmer summer chorus in Ohio
In southwest Ohio the annual dog day cicadas replace the loud Brood X presence with milder song. Experts note they vanish after dusk, are plentiful yet less alarming, and are valued by fishermen as good bait. Entomologists explain they emerge yearly in wooded areas, differ from periodical cicadas in numbers and sound, and cause little tree damage.
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Dayton
Ohio
Barbara Bloetscher
Ohio State University Entomology Diagnostician
Bloetscher
Sue Smith
Five Rivers Metro Parks
Eligibility shrinkage in Middletown 2nd Ward race narrows field
The Middletown City Council 2nd Ward seat field was cut from 11 to 10 as Butler County Board of Elections reviews eligibility. Joseph Polley withdrew after his Garfield Street address was deemed outside ward boundaries. Candidates Helen Edwards, Richard Farnsworth, James Surgenor were ruled ineligible. city officials will continue eligibility checks before finalizing the candidate list. Ros Lean Lindsey won the local council endorsement by a narrow margin, with Rev. Michael Bailey supporting Lindsey. Lindsey will receive the Second Ward Community Council endorsement to present to City Council.
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Fahrer
Middletown
Linda Watson
Watson
Helen Edwards
Rosa Sean Lindsey
James Surgenor
Michael Bailey
Richard Farnsworth
Joseph Polley
John Soppanish
Dave Williams
Roberta Derrico
Gregory Tyus
Polley
Edwards
Farnsworth
Surgenor
Butler County Board of Elections
Mkurtz
Coxohio
2Nd Ward
Second Ward Community Council
Garfield Street
Wanda Glover
Richard T. Farnsworth
James Nathan Surgenor
Board of Elections
Glover
Second Ward
17Th Avenue
Helen Shell
Vanderveer Street
Young Street
Bob Wells
Wells
Ros Lean Lindsey
15Th Avenue
Lindsey
Middletown Area
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Bailey
Singing Cicadas Bug Club at Englewood Park
Five Rivers MetroParks sponsors a 90 minute Singing Cicadas program for children. Attendees listen for cicada sounds and search for shed skins at Englewood MetroPark, meeting Friday August 13 at 2 p.m. at Patty Shelter near the dam entrance.
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Five Rivers MetroParks
Englewood MetroPark
National Road
U.S. 40
Patty Shelter
Ross officer killed in crash in Hamilton area
Gregory Hodges a 44 year old Hamilton man and former longtime deputy and part time Ross Township patrol officer was killed Tuesday evening when his motorcycle collided with a car at the Liberty Fairfield Road and Ohio 4 intersection Hodges had served as a road patrol deputy for about ten years with the Butler County Sheriff's Office and had recently taken a new position within the unit.
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Hamilton
Ross Township
Gregory Hodges
Liberty Fairfield Road
Ohio 4
Liberty
Fairfield Township
E. Hodges
Butler County
Sheriff’s Office
Michael Grimes
Hodges
Middletown parents arraigned after child cuffing incident
William D. Miller, 22, and Tiffany Cupp were arraigned in Middletown Municipal Court Tuesday morning on two felony counts of domestic violence. The charges stem from a disturbance that began when a 2-year-old girl was handcuffed by the ankle to a bed and the parents argued after the child was freed.
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Middletown
William D. Miller
Lafayette Ave
Tiffany Cupp
Role model Heather Wells leads local Girl Scouts in shaping young lives
Heather Wells guides Brownie and Junior Girl Scouts in Hamilton transforming elementary girls into capable, confident, caring women. She uses meetings and day camps to show positive role models, balancing family, career, and volunteering while promoting healthy self images.
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Hamilton
Heather Wells
Girl Scouts
Wells
Erin Reynolds
Caitlin
Allison
Danny
Corey
Ashinme Wells
Lauren Taylor
Carmen Campbell
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Council
Ross
Journal
Butler County Family and Children First Council
Middletown Journal
J. Ameer Rasheed Journal
Coxohio.com
Kat Fahrer
Fairfield
Camp Timberhill
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