State Rep. Cliff Rosenberger (R- Clarksville) will hold district office hours in Highland County at 10 a.m. on Monday, April 16 at the Highland County Commissioner’s Office (119 Governor Foraker Place, Suite 211, Hillsboro).

A meet the candidate event for Brenda Hottinger Losey will be held Wednesday, April 25.

    The Board of Trustees of the Paint Creek Joint EMS and Fire District voted unanimously to allow Paint Township to join the district, during a special meeting held Friday.
    "This is good for Paint Township, and this is most definitely good for the district," said board member William Redenbaugh. "We will give them as good a coverage as they've seen, and we'll work to improve everything in Paint Township and in the rest of the district. I think this is a plus."

The Paint Township Board of Trustees has unanimously voted to join the Paint Creek Joint EMS and Fire District, with services expected to begin Sunday. 
     
     The trustees held their regular monthly meeting Thursday at the AmVets on North Shore Drive. A special meeting to discuss moving from contracted services with the city of Hillsboro to becoming a member of the Greenfield area fire district was held March 22. During that meeting trustees Randy Mustard, Steve Karnes and Jeff White stated that they were not dissatisfied with the services provided by Hillsboro Fire and Rescue, but with the Hillsboro City Administration.

    A cigarette is the reported cause of a fire that swept through a Dreher Lane home Wednesday afternoon.

    No injuries were reported, but the Paint Creek Joint Fire and Ambulance district said it anticipates the structure, in the Paint Creek Lake area, will be a total loss due to the heat and smoke damage the mobile home sustain.

    With ringing bells and a cheering crowd of Rotarians, the newly titled Ernie Blankenship Telethon to benefit the Highland County Society for Children and Adults raised $143,110 that will stay local to benefit people in the Highland County community.

    Sponsored by the Hillsboro and Greenfield Rotary Clubs, the 40th annual telethon is the major fundraiser of the year for the society, which helps provide services for families and individuals trying to pay for medical expenses.

    With ringing bells and a cheering crowd of Rotarians, the newly titled Ernie Blankenship Telethon to benefit the Highland County Society for Children and Adults raised $143,110 that will stay local to benefit people in the Highland County community.

    Sponsored by the Hillsboro and Greenfield Rotary Clubs, the 40th annual telethon is the major fundraiser of the year for the society, which helps provide services for families and individuals trying to pay for medical expenses.

The Highland County Commissioners declared April 2012 as Child Abuse Prevention Month, with the theme for Highland County’s prevention campaign set as “You Make A World Of Difference.”

    With a microphone in one hand and a bell in the other, Ernie Blankenship, veteran emcee of the Annual Hillsboro/Greenfield Rotary Telethon to benefit the Highland County Society for Children and Adults, will take to the airwaves for the 38th time on Wednesday, March 28. And he's hoping to break some records.

    "I do it because you're helping people. You're helping the little ones, who otherwise wouldn't have this kind of help," Blankenship said.