🏗️ STEM center land: Community and Air Force leaders are going to gather to designate 16 acres of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base property for a STEM Talent Development Complex, according to Thomas Gnau’s story.
🎉 Fat Tuesday: Some local businesses have scheduled celebratory events around Mardi Gras, which ends with Fat Tuesday today. You can check out Alex Cutler’s list here.
We have a lot more news for you today found below, including a special story that local gardeners and library patrons are going to love! If you have thoughts or feedback on this newsletter or other news tips, please let me know at jeremy.ratliff@coxinc.com.
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LOCAL NEWS
• Bill would end ‘autopilot’ property tax levies, imperiling most taxes on the books
• Investors buying up Dayton-area neighborhoods: 5 key takeaways from our reporting
LIFE
• After 36 years, the Day of Caring Pancake Brunch is ending due to lack of volunteers
• DJ Cuest, the resident DJ at Ned Peppers, drops new single called ‘Block’
• Fat Tuesday: Taking a look at how the King Cake at Graeter’s is made
CRIME & PUBLIC SAFETY
• Police ask help finding hit-and-run driver from August 2025 pedestrian strike
• Man sentenced to probation for false bomb threat in Huber Heights
SPORTS
• Archdeacon: Flyers find their joy again in victory against Davidson
• Fencing competition this weekend at Liberty Center open to public spectators
NATION & WORLD
• The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King, has died at 84
• Shooting at Rhode Island youth hockey game leaves 3 dead, including shooter, and 3 more wounded
• Russian and Ukrainian officials are in Geneva for US-brokered talks after almost 4 years of war
• US plans to deploy more missile launchers to the Philippines despite China’s alarm
FREE CONTENT: Springboro library launches seed library to help community grow gardens
This story has grabbed my attention, and I am sure you will love it as well. Pamela Chandler explains a new effort that you can see at the Springboro Library. She writes, “Tucked into the back corner in a card catalog, a newly introduced seed library is quietly inviting patrons to try their hand at gardening. Inside labeled drawers, ‘culinary herbs,’ ‘root vegetables,’ and more visitors can open a drawer, select a packet, and take home the beginnings of something beautiful.” I plan to check this out myself! Will you?
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