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Editor’s note — We’re continuing our tradition of taking a look back each Saturday at some of the important, interesting or even odd events as they were reported during the same week throughout the years, along with interesting advertising features from years gone by.

An update regarding instruction and a new fiscal year budget were heard by Greenfield Exempted Village School Board members at Wednesday’s monthly meeting.

This year’s land value reappraisal has been completed and will soon be submitted, but Highland County Auditor Alex Butler doesn’t know for sure when the values will be formally released by the state.

The Highland County Sheriff’s Office has released the following information:

A former Greenfield resident was killed Monday when a vehicle went left of center and struck the motorcycle he was riding, according to the Lancaster Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

A discussion on the need to upgrade and replace dozens of radios to Multi-Agency Radio Communication System (MARCS) standards was held at the weekly Wednesday meeting of the Highland County Board of Commissioners.

The Hillsboro Designated Outdoor Refreshment Area (DORA), where alcoholic beverages can be purchased in a designated cup from participating establishments and carried within the district, was approved by the city in June of 2023 and kicked off in the fall of 2023.

Thirteen new public pickleball courts in Hillsboro will make their debut July 4-6 during the Festival of the Bells.

Denise Mootz, a truck driver who along with her husband is an owner of Charlie Mootz Trucking in Sardinia, was recently selected to participate in a national advertising campaign for bp’s Travel Centers of America (TA).

A Loveland woman sentenced to more than two years in prison was among two people sentenced recently in Highland County Common Pleas Court.