The Lynchburg-Clay junior high boys track and field team finished second at the 2026 SHAC track meet with a score of 87.

Single-family housing starts in March were at their highest since 2022, a fast start to the construction year that could bring more supply to home markets that are still painfully expensive.

The Ohio Justice & Policy Center (OJPC) and Washington, DC-based Norris Law Group have filed a federal lawsuit against the Butler County Jail, claiming that an alleged racially motivated, unjustified assault by a jail officer, combined with alleged systemic failures in training, supervision, and accountability, led to serious physical and emotional harm to Luis Tenelanda, an incarcerated person at the time of the assault. The lawsuit aims to hold both the individual officer and the jail responsible under federal civil rights law.

The Fairfield Local High School chapter of the National Honor Society has had a very successful school year. This student organization has successfully directed several school activities including a charitable project and has volunteered at several events.

Wilmington College President Corey Cockerill looks back to Christmas in 2011 when her sister, Erin Balbier, gave her a domino-shaped object, colorfully hand-painted with a cartoonish robot. That was her first bot — short for robot. Specifically, it was a Bilingual YesBot. Cockerill quickly became intrigued with bots, not just the whimsical figures on the JoyBots, LoveBots, GratitudeBots and PeaceBots, but their intrinsic messages centered on connection, delight and creative courage as represented by BotJoy, the global art movement ushered in by Gary Hirsch, WC’s 2026 Commencement speaker.

The Cincinnati Bar Association recently presented Supreme Court of Ohio Justice Patrick F. Fischer with the Themis Award, which recognizes extraordinary service by an attorney to the legal profession and the broader community.

Citizens throughout Ohio are against the onslaught of data centers and BESS facilities in our state, especially in our beautiful rural home and farm areas. I ask that you become very involved in this process on behalf of the citizens you were elected to represent. 

Phillip Stoops was born Aug. 20, 1754 in New Castle, Delaware.