State Representatives David Thomas (R-Jefferson) and Daniel P. Troy (D-Willowick) last week provided sponsor testimony during House Local Government Committee on House Bill 493, legislation to ban the sale of delinquent property tax certificates beginning in January 2027.

John  Ferguson Sr.  was born in Ireland in 1757. His Revolutionary War record can be found in the National Archives. 

Sen. Fetterman, who has consistently voted with the Republican-led CR, echoed his counterparts across the aisle and said that any outside issues aside from reopening the government could be dealt with after the lights were turned back on in Washington. "It was wrong to shut it down in March," he said. "I'm in the same position. It's not going to change. Everything else we're talking about,  open up the government first, and then we can figure out the rest."

The 58th annual Fall Festival of Leaves returned Oct. 16-19 in downtown Bainbridge, with a full slate of entertainment, crafts and contests planned as well as the opportunity to view beautiful fall foliage in “Leaf Country USA.”

Hillsboro City Council continued discussions of a now-revised ordinance to adjust compensation for non-union city employees during their Thursday, Oct. 16 meeting.

President Donald Trump hosted President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday afternoon, in hopes of inching Ukraine and Russia closer to peace.

After six months’ worth of meetings at Southern State Community College, Highland County commissioners Brad Roades, Terry Britton and David Daniels debuted their new meeting room at the Highland County Administration Building Wednesday, Oct. 15.

At the October meeting of the Lynchburg-Clay Local School District Board of Education, board members honored longtime Lynchburg-Clay educators Tom and Joe Wills for their accomplishments here in the district.

Two Ohio lawmakers want a local judge removed from office for making public statements about the death of Charlie Kirk.

Sen. John Thune said, “If anything was needed to demonstrate just how fundamentally uninterested Democrats are in supporting our troops and defending our country, just take a look at this vote.” Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa.; Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., were the only Democrats to vote for the bill. 

On Nov. 30 at 3 p.m., Hillsboro’s Second Christmas organ crawl will be held.

Hillsboro Mayor Justin Harsha introduced the city’s new law director at Hillsboro City Council’s Thursday, Oct. 16 meeting, while tempers flared as Auditor Dawson Barreras repeatedly called two council members “shameful” following a failed attempt at suspending the three-reading rule for an ordinance regarding the safety and service director’s residency.

"Numerous Republican offices have confirmed that they were targeted by an unidentified group or individual who distributed American flags bearing a similar symbol, which were initially indistinguishable from an ordinary American flag to the naked eye." 

President Donald Trump's former national security advisor John Bolton was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury. 

America First Legal is leading the charge for the United States to return to the "original meaning" of the 14th Amendment, meaning that children born to illegal aliens in the country are not American citizens.