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Mark Fisher, a 1981 graduate of Ohio State University and a 1976 graduate of Beavercreek High School, is a third-generation Dayton-area resident who has worked for the Dayton Daily News since 1983. He covered higher education and K-12 education accountability issues for nearly 20 years before taking over the food and dining beat in 2006. He also has written a wine column for the newspaper since 1989. He writes the Taste: Dayton Food and Restaurants and Uncorked blogs for the newspaper's web site. He and his wife Julie, who teaches at Fairmont High School, live in Kettering and have two adult sons who are Fairmont graduates.

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BEAVERCREEK — The opening of the Dayton area’s first HomeGoods store will have an impact on an already competitive Miami Valley home-furnishings market and will give consumers making purchasing decisions an important new option, industry analysts say.
BEAVERCREEK — The New York & Company store at the Mall at Fairfield Commons has closed — the third specialty clothing store to leave that mall this year, joining The Gap and Express.
KETTERING — L’Auberge restaurant owner Joseph Reif announced via email to customers Friday that he is seeking investors to keep the restaurant operating beyond Feb.
BEAVERCREEK — The Express clothing store inside the Mall at Fairfield Commons closed Tuesday, Barbara Coleman, director of corporate communications for the Columbus-based clothing company, said this morning.
BEAVERCREEK — HomeGoods will open its first Dayton-area store on March 11 at 2500 N. Fairfield Road in the Beavercreek Shopping Center, a spokeswoman for HomeGoods said Monday.
Several brash upstarts are trying to capture a prime Miami Valley slice of the $35.2 billion-a-year national pizza market.
It’s not just grapes that are fermenting at Warren County’s Valley Vineyards.
The winery near Morrow will unveil its new lineup of Cellar Dwellers Brewery craft beers in late February or thereabouts, making it only the second winery in Ohio to add its own line of microbrews, according to Joe Schuchter, director of sales and marketing, a third-generation member of the family that founded Valley Vineyards.
Marion’s Piazza’s new Troy restaurant — the Dayton-based pizza chain’s first expansion in more than two decades — is scheduled to open on Valentine’s Day, Feb.
DAYTON — The trial of Boulevard Haus owner Eva Christian, charged with five felony counts accusing her of insurance fraud, has been postponed until April.
The food service and drink choices that couples and parents make as part of their wedding planning can be the single costliest component of a wedding.
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