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Fire rips through Miami U. fraternity house
Firefighters were called to the Phi Gamma Delta House on High Street in Oxford after a fire alarm was triggered in the house, shortly after midnight, police said. When fire crews arrived on the Miami University fraternity, there were visible flames coming from the structure. The two people that were ...
Day of celebration kicks off Little League season
OXFORD — “Let’s Play Ball!” With those words, Marvin Wilhelm changed Miami Little League Day from one of celebrating what the group has to one of putting it to use. Instead of the traditional Opening Day, the Miami Little League board switched to a day of celebration Saturday to avoid ...
12 THS athletes making the jump to college
OXFORD — A dozen Talawanda High School senior athletes will continue their athletic careers in college, playing for a variety of Division III schools. Interim Athletic Director Denise Zimmerman, herself a college athlete in D-III, said the 12 seniors should be proud of the opportunity to continue in their sports ...
Election polls now closed
Election polls are now closed. “Voters in 74 counties will decide several local races and 351 local issues, including 138 school issues and a number of local tax levies, bond issues and charter amendments,” said a release from Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted. A list of local issues appearing ...
Local wake boarding park opens for season
A cable wake boarding complex in Butler County opens today for the season. Wake Nation Cincinnati in Joyce Park on the Hamilton and Fairfield city borders offers wake boarding, water skiing, knee boarding and wake skating. The lake is 10 acres, officials said. “Riders are pulled around the oval lake ...
Carriage parade strolls through Oxford Sunday
OXFORD — Take a trip back in time this Sunday by attending the second Red Bricks and Roses Carriage Parade in Oxford. The event will start at 1 p.m. in Uptown Park, located on High and Main streets, with the parade of horses and carriages coming through town at 2 ...
BCRTA’s Oxford route plans develop
OXFORD — Plans are taking shape for Oxford area bus service by the Butler County Regional Transit Authority. Oxford City Council heard a presentation at last week’s meeting updating them on plans for the service that comes as part of an agreement with Miami University to expand service to the ...
New Three Valley director ready to spring into action
OXFORD — Enthusiasm for her new job as executive director of the Three Valley Conservation Trust has Liz Woedl excited just to get up in the morning. Woedl was appointed to the position by unanimous vote of the TVCT board to replace Larry Frimerman who retired as director recently after ...
Time to ‘wake up and smell the coffee,’ retiring Three Valley director says
OXFORD — He didn’t become President of United States like he once dreamed about, but Larry Frimerman kept himself just as busy. Frimerman is retiring after 12 accomplished years as executive director of Three Valley Conservation Trust. He was appointed Farmland Preservation Ambassador by the Ohio Department of Agriculture earlier ...
Hamilton raid nets $1M in drugs, $200K in cash
A massive drug raid Thursday led to the arrest of three people in Hamilton and the recovery of cash, weapons and more than $1 million in synthetic drugs. Police officers served 19 search warrants on six businesses and nine residences. The warrants were conducted in several jurisdictions in both Butler ...
Businesses boom, crash in Oxford
OXFORD — The fluctuating population of Oxford presents a challenge for new and existing businesses as they try to survive and thrive.Businesses have to figure out a way to reach the college-age demographic during the school year, while still maintaining success when thousands of Miami University students leave town over ...
Sunday school teacher fired over gay rights stance
A woman was fired as the Sunday school teacher at a local church after she stated her support of gay marriage on Facebook. Misty Lynch stated her position in a post earlier this week on her Facebook page. “I’m a Christian and I support gay marriage. I don’t care if ...
2 Ex-Miami students accused of altering grades
Two former Miami University students are facing criminal charges for allegedly breaching the university’s computer systems to electronically change grades for themselves and others. Beckley Parker, 21, of Weston, Conn., is charged with six counts of attempted unauthorized use of property. David Callahan, 22, of Cambridge, Mass., is charged with ...
Light snow to continue into Tuesday
Light snow could continue all night and only accumulate to a half inch, but the on-and-off nature of the pattern likely will leave a coating to quarter-inch in some locations by Tuesday morning, Storm Center 7 Chief Meteorologist Jamie Simpson said Monday night. Icy spots on area roadways could be ...
Expect another half-inch, inch of snow this evening
Look for another half-inch to an inch of new snowfall this evening as steady light snow tapers to snow showers, Storm Center 7 Chief Meteorologist Jamie Simpson said late Monday afternoon. Snow totals throughout the region ranged from 3 inches to 10 inches. As of 8:23 p.m., 6.8 inches was ...
Winter’s version of ‘March Madness’ approaches region
A winter storm warning will go into effect for most of southwest Ohio this morning when another blast of winter is expected to hit the region. The warnings, issued by the National Weather Service on Saturday afternoon, will be in effect from 8 a.m. Sunday to 2 p.m. Monday. All ...
Buckeyes land in Dayton
Dayton was hoping for a little regional flavor — or at least a marquee name or two — to bolster its NCAA tournament First Four games Tuesday and Wednesday and got neither. But as UD Arena director Tim O’Connell pointed out, there are no complaints about the tourney field coming ...
Merging with SWAT offers more protection, police say
OXFORD — Better equipment, better training and better support all make Oxford’s move to the Butler County Regional SWAT unit a good one for residents and all without a loss of local control, according to police officials.Some have expressed a fear that merging Oxford’s Special Response Team into the countywide ...
Pete Conrad, long-time sports journalist, dies at 56
Pete Conrad will be remembered as a “gentle giant,” a kind, softspoken man and a journalist who always gave everyone a fair shake. Conrad, editor of The Oxford Press and longtime Miami University sports reporter, died March 4 at University Hospital in Cincinnati. Born March 22, 1956, in Hamilton, Conrad ...
Chamber honors efforts of groups, citizens
With the theme “Red Bricks to Progress,” the Oxford Chamber of Commerce recently held its annual meeting and awards program celebrating its history and work helping to build the community.While touting the community as a “great place to live, work and play,” members of the chamber celebrated their past, but ...
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