Fairborn news
Proposed bill would make government more open
The Ohio Senate is considering a bill that would make more meetings among government officials public as well as elaborate on what constitutes a public meeting, however some officials said it could make it harder for them to do their jobs. The bill would redefine the Ohio Open Meetings Act, ...
10,000 10-year-olds take over the Schuster
Yellow school buses surrounded the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Center this week as 10,000 10-year-olds descended on the popular downtown Dayton venue.The idea was to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Schuster by entertaining 10,000 children who were born in the year the Schuster Center was built. School groups from ...
Kettering adding works to public sites program
Jean Koeller is busy painting, not that this activity is different from any other time in her adult life. But this time she is creating art for CitySites, and all three paintings will be permanently housed in the lobby of the north building of the Kettering Government Center."The subject is ...
Fairborn show calls for outdoor entries
An awareness of Fairborn’s local green spaces and the need to preserve them led to the establishment of an En Plein Air competition in 2009. The collaboration between B-W Greenway Community Land Trust and the Fairborn Art Association continues with the fourth annual En Plein Air Show this summer.Each year ...
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 ...
Mall area drug activity low despite big busts
Mobile drug dealing has turned popular retail areas like the Dayton Mall into hot spots for drug dealers because of the high traffic volume, local police said.The distribution of heroin, marijuana and crack cocaine is easier for drug dealers in these type of areas because they can be more discrete ...
Victoria announces Cool Film series
The names of the 12 films that will be shown this summer at the Victoria Theatre Association's popular Cool Films Series have just been announced.New this year is "Reel Late At the Vic," a series of films that will screen at 10:30 p.m. They include Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" on ...
High School sports results for Saturday, May 18
BaseballSECTIONAL TOURNAMENTDIVISION ISt. Xavier 3, Talawanda 2Lakota East 5, Glen Este 4Centerville 5, Fairmont 1SoftballSECTIONAL TOURNAMENTDIVISION IIFranklin 21, Alter 0, 5 inn.Boys VolleyballSaturday’s ResultsD-I Regional Finals at CentervilleNorthmont def. Fairmont, 25-22, 25-13, 23-25, 25-19.Beavercreek def. Centerville, 22-25, 25-16, 23-25, 25-22, 15-12.D-II Regional Finals at CentervilleFenwick def. Alter, 25-22, 26-28, 25-17, ...
Wright State baseball home finale
Wright State lost 1-0 to Illinois-Chicago in its final regular-season game of the season Saturday, May 18, 2013, at Nischwitz Stadium in Fairborn.
Relay a fitting finale at GWOC boys meet
Fairborn senior Matt Cline’s smile beamed as he pointed to teammate Jeremy Bridges. “He’s an animal,” Cline said after Bridges out-leaned Miamisburg’s Andrew Denlinger at the tape to win the 4x400-meter relay title at the Greater Western Ohio Conference track meet at Centerville High School Friday night. “It’s a man’s ...
Fire evacuates Homewood Suites in Fairborn
A dryer fire sent patrons of the Homewood Suites by Hilton temporarily out of doors Thursday night.The hotel in the 2700 block of Presidential Drive was evacuated as smoke billowed out of the laundry room area at approximately 7:45 p.m.A Fairborn fire official told News Center 7 the fire was ...
High School Sports results for Wednesday, May 15
BaseballSECTIONAL TOURNAMENTWednesday’s ResultsDIVISION IIIBadin 11, East Clinton 0, 5 inn.Carlisle 10, Dayton Christian 1Fenwick 5, Madison 3Miami East 10, Northwestern 0, 5 inn.Triad 5, Northridge 2Versailles 7, Anna 0Waynesville 5, Dixie 4West Liberty-Salem 13, National Trail 8DIVISION IVArcanum 5, Troy Christian 1Cedarville 11, Tri-Village 7Cin. Christian 12, St. Bernard 0, ...
Woman says passport delivered with wrong photo
A woman trying to go on a trip said her passport came in with the wrong photo on it.Emerald Bilbrey of New Carlisle decided to get a jump on planning for a cruise with her husband by obtaining her passport last Fall.She went to the Fairborn post office to have ...
Wright-Patt employees will face 11 furlough days starting in early July
Thousands of Wright-Patterson civilian employees won’t spend as much time off the job without pay after the Pentagon dropped the number of furlough days to 11 from 14 on Tuesday. The reduction cut in half the 22 furlough days that 13,000 local civil service workers originally faced earlier this year, ...
Costuming becomes a profession for woman
Many little girls dress their dolls in fine costumes but few will grow up to make a living costuming real people like Miranda Gullion did.The Fairborn resident is the wardrobe supervisor for Town Hall Theatre, Washington Township’s children’s theater in Centerville.Gullion, who calls herself an “army brat,” settled in Fairborn ...
Arch: Teaching life lessons through golf
At first glance they wouldn’t seem to have much in common. John Higgins is in his mid-60s and owns Lexus of Dayton. For decades he’s also raced sports cars — he won the 12 Hours of Sebring (Camel GTP Lights class) in 1987 and often has run the grueling 24 ...
Greene Co. elections board fires employee
A Greene County Board of Elections clerk was terminated following a unanimous vote by members during an emergency meeting Monday afternoon. The four-member board fired Hayley Lewis following a 25-minute executive session. After the closed session ended, the public meeting resumed and Doris Adams, a county elections board member, made ...
More development planned for The Pointe at Valle Greene
An 8,100-square-foot building is expected to be constructed this year at The Pointe at Valle Greene in Fairborn — a move that city officials say could jumpstart development in that area. The new single-story building will be the second building at The Pointe at Valle Greene, which originally was approved ...
Major repairs planned for Colonel Glenn Highway
The city of Fairborn is preparing to repair more than a mile stretch of Colonel Glenn Highway that provides access to Wright State University and the Nutter Center. Work will begin in early spring of 2014 on nearly 1.1 miles of road that is the most heavily traveled thoroughfare in ...
Albers: First lady of Dayton golf had ‘heart of gold’
Diana Schwab passed up her regular round of golf with a ladies league at Beavercreek Golf Club Wednesday morning to begin a trip that she was eagerly awaiting. Schwab was planning to attend an outing sponsored by Golfweek magazine at the Trump International Golf Club in New Jersey. As a ...
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