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Free benefits help on the way for local vets
Local veterans who have questions about their benefits will be able to get answers next week when the Disabled American Veterans’ mobile service office rolls into town.The DAV vehicle carrying national service officers will make its first stop in Springfield from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday at DAV Chapter ...
Local student sets sights on West Point
At Northeastern High School, incoming senior Rachel Parker carries a 4.0 grade-point average and cried the first time she took the ACT and scored a 28.The local student who is captain in two sports and who lettered in three, plus played the lead in the spring musical and was named ...
Festival aims to shine light on local fathers
In an area where four out of 10 fathers are deemed absent, Urban Light Ministries and the Be About It Movement are aiming to show appreciation to those fathers who are present in the lives of their families and children.On Friday and Saturday, Urban Light and Be About It will ...
Springfield to get drone HQ
An office on Springfield’s eastern edge will serve as the base of operations for Ohio and Indiana’s joint effort to become a test site for unmanned aerial systems, an industry that’s predicted to create thousands of new jobs.The Ohio/Indiana Unmanned Aerial Systems Center and Test Complex will be housed in ...
Selling, lying about medals angers vets
Ron Coss doesn’t hold back when it comes to people who lie about receiving a military decoration they didn’t earn.“It is the lowest of the low,” the Vietnam veteran from Springfield said Friday. “They’re snakes.”Now, according to a new version of the Stolen Valor Act signed into law this week, ...
More Ohio soldiers deploy to Middle East
Sgt. Matthew Kaufman volunteered to deploy to Kuwait, even with his first child on the way. Already a veteran of the Iraq War as a scout sniper, the Lebanon resident had heard he might deploy next to Afghanistan — but with his son due in September, Kuwait sounded like the ...
Vince Gill coming to Springfield
One of the most respected and talented country musicians of the past 25 years is coming to Springfield in September.It doesn’t hurt that Vince Gill is pretty popular, too.Gill, who’s sold more than 26 million albums and is already a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, will play ...
355 Springfield Guardsmen face furloughs
About 355 full-time members of the Ohio National Guard in Springfield will be furloughed for 11 days beginning July 8, and will be among the only people wearing military uniforms ordered to take unpaid leave as part of federal budget cuts. Nationally, the 53,000 uniformed technicians within the Guard who ...
Former Springfield curator lands new job
A month after four trustees quit the Springfield Museum of Art board to protest the firing of curator Charlotte Gordon, she has a new job.Gordon has been hired as artistic director of the Southern Ohio Museum in Portsmouth.It’s a move that also will bring her husband, Mark Chepp, out of ...
Clark eaglets OK after nest falls
The bald eagle nest that has led carloads of people down a little-traveled rural Clark County road this spring came crashing down Friday during a storm. But, the story doesn’t end there. In fact, it’s on track to have a happy ending. The two eaglets in the nest not only ...
Local Guard unit saving taxpayers big
A massive new command and control facility for the nation’s nuclear weapons will likely be made operational in 2016 by the work of a Springfield Air National Guard communications unit that could save U.S. taxpayers $35 million in the process. U.S. Strategic Command in May approached the Springfield-based 251st Cyber ...
Korean War vet recalls time of love and war
Wilbur Bryant can’t help but wonder if his medals for bravery were actually earned for being married 62 years and counting.He’s joking, of course. A man doesn’t forget the circumstances in which he was awarded the Silver Star, a Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts — all in the course ...
Local vet part of World War II story project
Garl McHenry observed something recently about the three pieces of German flak he brought home from World War II after finding them near where he sat in a B-24 Liberator. “They’re getting rusty now, I noticed,” he said. At 88, McHenry knows he doesn’t have much time left himself, which ...
Witt prof to do research for the Army
The institution that helped mold the world view of generals with last names like Eisenhower, Patton and Schwarzkopf has called on the expertise of a Springfield resident.Yu Bin, a longtime political science professor at Wittenberg University, will begin a one-year assignment in August as a visiting research professor at the ...
Residents gather to salute war dead
Larrin Peterson served in the Army during peacetime — but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t willing to die for his country.A childhood spent attending the ceremony each Memorial Day in Ferncliff Cemetery, along with family history, eventually inspired him to take the oath of enlistment in 1976.“I felt it was ...
Honor Flight founder gets national honor
With more than 20,000 World War II veterans on a waiting list to receive a free trip to Washington, D.C., and 900 of them dying every day, Earl Morse is happy to get as much free publicity as he can for Honor Flight. The national organization he founded in Springfield ...
Millions in bonuses remain for Ohio veterans
Veterans from Clark and Champaign counties who served during the first Gulf War or the War on Terror have received more than $829,000 since Ohio voters in 2009 approved tax-free bonuses for their service, state records show.But with a total of $200 million set aside for the Ohio Veterans Bonus, ...
Local mother meets with Portman about guns
A local mother whose son was killed in a mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater got the meeting she wanted Monday with U.S. Sen. Rob Portman to discuss his recent vote against tighter gun control.The two met face to face over coffee at a Springfield restaurant for about 45 ...
Portman speaks at local Armed Forces Day
In his invocation Monday at an annual Armed Forces Day luncheon, retired Navy chaplain James Christian prayed that Clark County would remain a place of support and comfort for those who serve.The luncheon is in its 32nd year, having been started as a Springfield Air National Guard Base initiative. It’s ...
Tours to showcase local history
A tour series each summer devoted to Springfield architecture and history is touted as one of the most successful architectural tour series in the nation.Based on an anecdote told by series co-founder Kevin Rose, there’s not much reason to dispute the claim.“I was part of a tour in Columbus that ...
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