Vote for Liberty Township cemetery levy
To the editor:The Liberty Township Trustees have placed a .1-mill tax levy for five years for maintaining and operating cemeteries on the March 15,...
The real test of residency
To The Editor:Residency is notoriously difficult to prove or disprove. Some law enforcement officials believe that the most important evidence of residency is whether...
Thoughts on big Fat Tuesday
As I write, it’s Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras — whatever you choose to call it. But by whatever name it is referred,...
Drew’s father-in-law visits Hillsboro
Since the criminal investigation into Mayor Drew Hastings became public on Dec. 16, I have tried to remain open to the notion that there...
South Central Ohio League re-forms
Editor’s Note: This is an ongoing series on the history of the South Central Ohio League as penned in Paul Edwin Maple’s 1964 seminar...
Change comes expected or not
Changes come. It is a fact of life that we all know intimately. And they come whether they are expected or not, and whether...
Iowa firsthand, & a sad passing
The political world’s focus was on Iowa over the weekend, and Hillsboro’s mayor had a firsthand look at all the excitement leading up to...
The early years of the SCOL
Before it disbanded from 1993 through 2002, the South Central Ohio League was often referred to as the oldest continuously operating conference in the...
Right now is what we’ve got
On Saturday with the forecasted snow of Friday I planned nothing more than to stay home, tucked away indoors with nothing at all to...
Trump and the wistful right
A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine who works in Republican politics called me. He will likely be involved in the GOP...
