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Brookville levy failed by 6 votes
Brookville Local Schools superintendent Timothy Hopkins said the district’s $5.5 million operating levy failed by six votes — 868 to 862 — after provisional and absentee ballots were counted Monday.The Montgomery County Board of Elections will certify the results today.The levy, known as Issue 14 on the ballot, would have ...
ED/GE grant requests move to next step
An advisory committee Friday recommended for Montgomery County Commission seven projects for public funding, including helping a manufacturer move jobs from Miami County and Huber Heights to Dayton. The ED/GE (Economic Development/Government Equity) Advisory Committee recommended $500,000 to help Process Equipment Co. consolidate four locations in Miami County and Huber ...
Patriotic art exhibit graces Brookville city building walls
What started as a sixth-grade patriotic art project to honor veterans past and present at a Veterans Day assembly has become a permanent exhibit gracing the walls of the Brookville City Building.It all started when Brookville Intermediate School art teacher Ashley Rieger, asked her three sixth-grade classes to make four ...
BROOKVILLE: Police looking for ‘quick change artist’
Brookville police need the public's help identifying a man they describe as a "quick change artist."
Police seek ID on ‘quick change artist’
Brookville police need the public’s help identifying a man they describe as a “quick change artist.” The man targeted a Subway restaurant in Brookville last month. In store surveillance video provided by police, the man appears to buy a cookie then proceeds to ask the clerk to make change for ...
Food mix not good on top of car
CLAY TWP., Montgomery County – Someone used the vehicle as a stove top for an unappealing dinner, or just wanted to do criminal mischief.The vehicle, in the 100 block of Water Street, was in the driveway, covered with eggs, what looked to be whipped cream and chili. There did not ...
Barn side opened, nothing taken
CLAY TWP., Montgomery County – Everything was in place except the side of the barn in the 7300 block of Brookville-Salem Road where the resident farmer found an area of aluminum siding removed, apparently from the outside.Once the barn was open, whoever did the damage must have been tired, because ...
Too much hidden in his pockets
BROOKVILLE – While being cited for having an open container and being disorderly in a parking lot in the 200 block of Main Street, a subject was noted carrying a bottle in one of his pants pockets.It was cough syrup, he said, and wasn’t prescribed to him. A continued search ...
Too much to drink on birthday
BROOKVILLE – On his birthday, a subject was found at 2:36 a.m. driving on Western Avenue near Clay Street in a vehicle with expired registration.He said he had “a couple” of drinks, but it smelled like a couple more, and his failed field sobriety test confirmed he could be arrested ...
John Deere takes to the road through fence
CLAYTON – A John Deere lawn mower was stolen from a back yard, probably through the two sections of fence that were removed in the 200 block of Clinton Street.In a case police thought might be related to the one on Kimmel Road in Clay Township the same night, the ...
Family and friends didn’t use trailer
CLAY TWP., Montgomery County – The night before, the homemade trailer was there, black, with a broken left rear tail light and a metal ramp with a cut in the metal on the left side of the ramp.The next morning, it was gone. Family and friends in the area were ...
Keys convenient for stealing 4-wheeler from barn
CLAY TWP., Montgomery County – On a recent Saturday afternoon, a victim in the 11500 block of Dayton Greenville Pike parked his four-wheeler in his barn, conveniently leaving the keys in the ignition in case anyone needed a quick ride to the convenience store.Apparently somebody did, and it wasn’t the ...
Wet roads contribute to rollover on I-70
A man in his 20s was taken to Miami Valley Hospital with non life-threatening injuries after he rolled his car on the ramp to westbound I-70 on Sunday.At about 3:15 p.m., Clayton Fire crews were dispatched to the ramp on Ohio 49 leading to westbound I-70 on a report of ...
Schools hiring retirees in their old jobs
Some area school districts are considering hiring newly retired employees into the same positions as the region braces for a wave of retirements prompted by changes to the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio. The controversial practice, also known as “double dipping,” has drawn scrutiny in recent years because the ...
Open container giveaway for drinking
BROOKVILLE – At 9:49 a.m. on a Saturday, the driver said he couldn’t be intoxicated since he didn’t have anything to drink since the night before. That wasn’t why he was stopped. An officer ran his information near Hay Avenue and Sycamore Street, finding the owner had a warrant and ...
Too much to smoke led to running stop sign
BROOKVILLE – At 2:51 a.m., a woman ran a stop sign at Westbrook Road and Wolfcreek Street, alibiing that she was lost and nervous because she saw a police car behind her. As he took her license, the officer noticed the subject’s glassy eyes and disorientation. She also started to ...
Two arrested, six dropped at fast food joint
BROOKVILLE – Not one of the six remaining passengers in a vehicle just stopped in the area of Arlington Road and Interstate 70 for a minor traffic violation on a late Saturday afternoon had a valid driver’s License to transport anyone home in the vehicle, which had Indiana registration. Two ...
Subject was leaving, but now on police terms
BROOKVILLE – A call about a car taken at gunpoint had two sides when police arrived at Brookside Drive at 12:40 a.m. for what turned out to be a domestic dispute. The female victim and subject who took the car – which apparently was his - were friends, and he ...
Brookville Schools seek renewal and operating levies
The superintendent of Brookville Local Schools said the district’s bid for a renewal levy and a new operating levy on the May ballot is intended to keep the district on good financial and educational footing. The district is putting a 3.99 mill renewal levy and a new 5.5 mill operating ...
More power outages reported in Brookville area
As of 12:15 p.m. more than 2,300 Dayton Power and Light customers are reportedly without power in Montgomery County after power was briefly restored.Nearly 800 DP&L customers were without power earlier Thursday morning in northern Montgomery County.Traffic lights were reported to be without power in Brookville and Perry Twp. The ...
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