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Joanne Huist Smith is a native of Dayton. She grew up in the Old North Dayton Neighborhood and attended the St. Adalbert's Catholic Elementary School on Valley Street. Joanne graduated from John H. Patterson Cooperative High School, then earned a bachelor's degree in English at Wright State University. She joined the staff of the Dayton Daily News as a reporter in 1997. During her tenure with the newspaper, Joanne has covered Greene and Warren counties, focusing on education and communities. She currently covers Montgomery County government.
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Montgomery, Greene counties train for major disaster
A vapor cloud forming above canisters of compressed gas in the bed of a pick-up truck on the University of Dayton campus signaled the start of a training exercise simulating a hazardous chemical release.The UD parking lot swarmed with first responders Wednesday morning from Greene and Montgomery Counties to assist ...
Counties ready for emergency training exercises
The Montgomery/Greene Counties Local Emergency Response Council is hosting a full-scale training exercise on Wednesday simulating a response to the release of a hazardous chemical.The training exercise will take place at the Montgomery County Emergency Operations Center in the Reibold Building at 117 S. Main Street, Miami Valley Hospital, the ...
Local Red Cross volunteers on standby
While volunteers for the Dayton Area Chapter of the American Red Cross waited to hear Tuesday morning whether they will be deployed to Oklahoma to assist tornado victims, one Dayton area native who lives in the Sooner State did reach her daughter in Moore. “We are on standby,” Soteria Brown, ...
Ambassador for Wright family passes
Wright Brothers family ambassador and longtime Dayton-area volunteer Marion Davis Wright passed away Thursday in Toledo after a long illness.Wright, 85, was the widow of Wilkinson “Wick” Wright the great-nephew of Wilbur and Orville Wright. She was predeceased by her husband Wick.Wright was teaching at The Miami Valley School when ...
Historic buildings rely on private events to keep doors open
Montgomery County spends $300,000 a year for management of two seldom used, but historic downtown Dayton buildings, Memorial Hall and the old courthouse. Under an agreement with Montgomery County — owner of the buildings - Dayton History maintains the properties as historical centers. About 10,000 people visited the buildings in ...
Greater Dayton RTA gets $450,000 to improve services
The Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority has been awarded a $450,000 federal grant to improve access to transportation services for Montgomery County veterans and others.U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration had awarded the grant to establish a “One-Call/One-Click” service in ...
$187M library project largest for newly hired director
Dayton Metro Library interviewed six candidates before hiring Tom Marchesano of Michigan as director of construction for its $187 million building project. Other public libraries that worked with Marchesano described him as a man with integrity, a team player, someone who gets projects done on time and on budget. “Tom ...
Racinos reviving horse industry
Anticipation of $10 million a year from casino revenue taxes and an estimated $1 million a month from video lottery play has led to a rebound in race horse breeding in Ohio. “When most of the public says horse racing, they’re thinking about multi-million dollar companies that own the racetracks. ...
Levies in Miami and Washington townships pass
Voters in Miami and Washington townships favored four property tax issues Tuesday to fund police, fire, emergency services and recreation, according to unofficial results from the Montgomery County Board of Elections.After a loss at the polls in November, voters supported a 5.25 mills property tax for police services in Miami ...
Husted touts e-pollbooks in Dayton
Secretary of State Jon Husted made a brief stop at a Dayton polling location about 10 a.m. Tuesday to highlight use of e-pollbooks for elections. The technology is currently in use in 11 counties.Montgomery County has used the e-pollbooks, which resemble an electronic tablet with a card reader, for six ...
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