Fire destroys two buildings on Cincinnati-Dayton Road
Firefighters from Liberty, Union, and Monroe townships battled an arson linked blaze on Cincinnati-Dayton Road in Bethany shortly after midnight. Two storage buildings at 6558 and 6560 were completely destroyed, with 6558 collapsing and threatening 6560 as crews fought hot embers and limited access.
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Bethany
Liberty Township
Union Township
Monroe
Cincinnati-Dayton Road
Liberty
Henry Taylor
Voter registration push across Union and Liberty townships
Civic groups urge registration ahead of the November election with drives at Lakota High School Union Elementary Hopewell Elementary and Citizens Bank in Pisgah. Special sessions are scheduled Sept 22 24 25 at the Pisgah firehouse and Sept 23 at Union School. Liberty Township locations include Liberty Elementary and Countryside Village Mobile Home Park with weekday and Saturday hours.
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Donna Nicol
Union-Liberty Democratic Women’s Club
Marilyn Crawford
Union Township
Republican
Dick Battaglia
Lakota High School
Union Elementary
Hopewell Elementary
Citizen's Bank
Pisgah
Union School
Liberty Township
Liberty Elementary
Countryside Village Mobile Home Park
Journal
Alice Battaglia
Lakota Schools featured in upcoming Journal series
The Journal announces a recurring Lakota Schools feature covering topics such as the school system administration enrollment and staff, general finance, facility plans, bond issues and levies, and related subjects like busing, curriculum and athletics. Readers may suggest questions for coverage.
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Liberty
Union Townships
Armco Steel Opens Middletown Works for 75th Anniversary Tour
Armco Steel will open its Middletown Works to the public this weekend for the 75th anniversary. Tours run Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with plant walking tours, a 40 minute train ride, and a dome presentation about Armco’s history. Entrance is via Oxford State Road. cameras are not allowed and seedlings will be given as souvenirs.
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Armco Steel
Middletown
Lois Cockerham
Armco Steels
Armco
Middletown Works
Oxford State Road
Worthington to Build Steel Plant in Monroe
Worthington Industries plans a 113000 square foot steel pickling and processing plant on 20 acres along Lawton Road in Monroe. The $6 million facility would employ 60 to 100 workers and feature two pickling lines with 60000 pound coil processing capacity annually. The project, pending CIC approval on municipal bonds, could open in 1976 with slitting and pickling starting in 1976 and 1975 respectively.
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Lois Cockerham
Worthington Industries
Coil Steel
Lawton Road
Miami Valley
Monroe
CIC
Commercial Improvement Corporation
Butler County Cic
Monroe Cic
Bob Matson
Paul Baker
Gordon Reed
John Musgrove
Elbert Tannreuther
Metal Products
Armco Steel
Worthington
Union GOP women host Mike Fox in Union Township meeting
Union Township Republican Women host State Representative Michael Fox along with Lakota school board President Robert Niederman and Union Township Trustee Larry Gandler for a morning issues program at Margaret Gandler’s West Chester home. The session covers constitutional amendments, county issues, and local levies with a slide presentation and luncheon to follow.
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Union Gop
Mike Fox
Michael Fox
Union Township
Republican Women’s Club
Rep. Fox
Margaret Gandler
Barrett Road
West Chester
Robert Niederman
Perkins withdraws from Lakota board race
Richard Perkins of West Chester withdrew Monday as a Lakota board of education candidate citing city charter restrictions on employees involved in political affairs. The Butler County Elections Board removed his name from the November ballot leaving four candidates for two seats: Wallace Schulze, Robert Howard, Galen Shaffner and Charles Miller.
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Didacy
Hamilton
Butler County Board of Elections
Perkins
Lakota
Wallace M. Schulze
Robert F. Howard
Galen ‘‘Bitsy
Shaffner
Charles M. Miller
Sight and Sound Spectacular to feature 13 area bands
Monroe hosts the Sight and Sound Spectacular at Memorial Field next Saturday September 27 drawing about 1500 musicians from Lakota Talawanda Middletown Fenwick Carlisle Colerain Lebanon Edgewood Princeton Taft Franklin Madison and Monroe. Each band receives a plaque and all perform a closing Bicentennial themed number March America with a $1.50 admission.
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Lemon Monroe
Monroe
Lakota
Talawanda
Middletown
Fenwick
Carlisle
Colerain
Lebanon
Edgewood
Princeton
Taft
Franklin
Madison
America
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Union Two
Liberty Two
Lierty Aoe
P.O. Box
Maud
Ohio
Larry Gandler
Michael
Richard Perkins
LeSourdsville
West Chester Road
Drew
Lakota Board of Education
Hopewell Pta
Hopewell
Ruthalee Napoli
Linda Bowles
Jill Stander
Mrs. Stander
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