Festival closes, elections results, white Christmas - Hillsboro Times Gazette

Editor’s note: Following is simply a month-by-month look backmost astatine the apical section quality stories from 2022 arsenic reported by The Times-Gazette. We privation our readers a Happy New Year.

October

5 – James Morris, a Greenfield native, took implicit the presumption of pedagogue covering agriculture, earthy resources and assemblage improvement for the Highland County Ohio State University (OSU) Extension Office. Morris said the presumption progressive talking to agriculture producers and concern owners successful the region successful either one-on-one oregon radical settings.

7 – The Highland County Visitors Bureau unveiled its caller website astatine www.visithighlandcounty.com. Jamie Wheeler, the enforcement manager of the Visitors Bureau, said the redesign wasn’t “completely finished” astatine the clip and that successful the months pursuing the announcement, the enactment would proceed to adhd to it. She said the enactment would besides “start to stitchery statistic connected what items radical still” privation to person entree to.

17 – Madisyn Hollen, a inferior astatine Hillsboro High School, was named the 2022 Miss Fall Festival of Leaves. Hollen besides had her attendants with her, those radical being Rachelle Priest, the archetypal attendant from McClain High School; Sophi Stauffer, the 2nd attendant from Paint Valley High School; and Reagan Truitt, the 3rd attendant from Paint Valley High School.

24 – The Greenfield Rotary Club announced its determination to measurement down from the relation of festival sponsor for the Greene Countrie Towne Festival aft 35 years astatine that position. According to a quality release, it appeared that a caller enactment was going to beryllium formed that wanted to “carry connected the traditions of the festival with immoderate caller vigor and ideas, and apt immoderate changes.”

31 – The Highland County Workforce Development Center celebrated its expansive opening successful Greenfield. Julie Bolender, manager of Highland County Economic Development, said the halfway had 1 large country that could besides beryllium divided into 2 arsenic needed acknowledgment to a divider arsenic good arsenic 3 smaller backstage enactment areas for residents to usage that privation to perchance enactment remotely oregon successful silence.

November

2 – The Visitors Bureau of Highland County announced that it had a palmy twelvemonth astatine a greeting gathering of the Highland County Board of Commissioners. Wheeler said the palmy twelvemonth came from aggregate aspects similar the caller website, Ohio’s Co-op Advertising Program, wherever a video was released advertizing the county’s outdoor activities, and the 2022 Social Media Influencer Tour, among a mates of different projects the bureau completed.

9 – The unofficial results for the 2022 wide predetermination were released by the Highland County Board of Elections. Brad Roades, Republican, defeated Tara Campbell, Democrat, for a spot Highland County Commissioners spot near by Jeff Duncan, and Shane Wilkin (R-Hillsboro), won a authorities legislator against Gary Boone (D-Hillsboro).

15 – The Lynchburg-Clay Marching Mustangs scored the highest imaginable standing astatine the 2022 Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA) State Marching Band Finals held astatine Alexander Stadium successful Piqua. The show was the 2nd consecutive authorities finals for the band, arsenic they received a Superior (I) standing for their rendition of “Under the Moonlight.”

29 – The bid for a caller livestock installation astatine the Highland County Fairgrounds was awarded to Perkins Carmack Construction astatine the play Wednesday gathering of the Highland County Board of Commissioners. The task program was announced to see the alloy gathering and erection, the factual foundation, a factual slab and electrical work, and was scheduled to beryllium finished earlier the 2023 fair.

30 – The Transportation Committee attended the play Wednesday greeting gathering of the Highland County Board of Commissioners to connection updates connected Family Recovery Services (FRS). Damon Lucas, the FRS proscription director, said the enactment was looking into making a downloadable app for the work wherever radical could docket their ain trips and besides spot wherever their conveyance is located.

December

6 – The Ironclad, a bowling tournament, was scheduled to beryllium held astatine Highland Lanes successful Hillsboro. The tourney was planned to person 40 varsity girls and boys teams from 20 antithetic precocious schools successful Southern Ohio. It was announced the teams “are chiefly competing for bragging rights” arsenic good arsenic a trophy and medals successful the 2nd twelvemonth of the tournament.

6 – A caller Appalachian Community Grant was elaborate astatine the greeting gathering of the Highland County Board of Commissioners. Julie Bolender, manager of Highland County Economic Development, said the caller assistance had 3 antithetic buckets of funding, which were for infrastructure, wellness attraction and workforce development.

19 – The Bright Elementary Spelling Bee was held for the archetypal clip successful 5 years and Natalie Burnett, a sixth grader, won the event. Twenty-four students were progressive successful this circular of the lawsuit pursuing “a hard spelling trial that much than 70 fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade students attempted.” The triumph for Burnett meant that she moved connected to the determination qualifying circular of the Scripps Spelling Bee.

20 – Matthew Campbell, a meteorologist astatine the National Weather Service (NWS) successful Wilmington, said that determination was a anticipation for a White Christmas. Campbell said an inch was forecast astatine the clip for the Thursday evening into Friday greeting anterior to Christmas, besides saying that immoderate snowfall comes down would inactive beryllium connected the crushed connected Christmas.

22 – Ethan Emery, Hillsboro High School 2013 postgraduate and existent FOX 19 meteorologist, was awarded the favoritism of Kentucky Colonel due to the fact that of his enactment arsenic a meteorologist covering the tornadoes successful Western Kentucky for his erstwhile station, WBKO successful Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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