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Author celebrates Hamilton legends in new book
After nearly eight months of research into the people who have made “a significant and lasting impact” on the city, historian Richard N. Piland has determined, in his humble opinion, that no one has done more for Hamilton than Homer Gard, founder of the Hamilton JournalNews.While working on the book ...
Artspace ready to proceed
Artspace is officially ready to start looking for tenants.The development team learned last week that the Ohio Housing Finance Agency has awarded low income housing tax credits for an affordable live/work facility for artists in downtown Hamilton, according to Sarah White, director of property development at Artspace, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit ...
Welder starts gallery and studio
With all the art-related activities going on around town, it shouldn’t be too surprising to see galleries and studios popping up in unexpected places. Gary and Diana Brunsman have converted Dixie Welding on Hooven Avenue, just off Ohio 4, into Gallery of Dixie, a place where people can go to ...
Parents set record straight on fallen soldier
When U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert A. Massarelli, 32, died in Kandahar, Afghanistan, last year on June 24, initial reports said that it was the result of a truck he was riding in being hit by an improvised explosive device. That has turned out not to be the case, according ...
Second Ward community gathers for annual festival
Residents of the city’s Second Ward gathered in Douglass Park on Saturday for the annual Multicultural Festival.The Second Ward Community Council has organized the event for the last 12 years, according to organizer Wanda Glover. Before that it was sponsored by Middletown Regional Hospital.“When they stopped having it, we kept ...
Adaptive program attracts new rowers
Luke Pettit has been playing ice hockey for a few years and has done a little swimming, but the 19-year-old resident of Trenton had never rowed a boat before Saturday. Now, he’s planning to join the Great Miami Rowing Club in spite of his spina bifida. The club held its ...
Rowing Club begins new adaptive program
Beth Crenshaw was born with spina bifida, but that hasn’t stopped her from becoming an athlete.And she’s poised to help people in a similar situation to become expert rowers as she begins coaching the adaptive rowing program for the Great Miami Rowing Club this weekend.“Adaptive rowing programs are springing up ...
Wounded soldier, family endure struggles
The recovery of Staff Sgt. Sam Shockley has not been going as well as hoped, according to his mother.Roberta Collins said that her 25-year-old son, a 2006 Ross High School graduate, has lost a lot of weight since being critically injured in Afghanistan in March when he stepped on and ...
Hamilton grad’s band kicks off RiversEdge concert series
David Shaw, a 2001 Hamilton High School graduate and lead singer for the New Orleans alternative rock band The Revivalists, said that he’s happy to kick off the summer concert series Thursday at the RiversEdge Amphitheatre.“It’s always fun to come back and play for the hometown crowd,” he said in ...
Art show highlights senior artists
“The one thing I’m not is an artist,” said Ray Fuerst. “I can’t draw a straight line.” He said this, however, in front of a table full of dozens of wood carvings in a variety of subject matter and styles, from a simple bird — “My first carving,” Fuerst said ...
Hospice of Hamilton honors its volunteers
Millville resident Al Schneider has been recognized by Hospice of Hamilton as the 2012 winner of the Donna West Award for volunteerism.Schneider has been volunteering at Hospice of Hamilton for about 3½ years, he said.When he retired from Macy’s department store, a fellow parishioner from Queen of Peace Church enlisted ...
Flood markers going up around city
As part of the commemoration of the Great Flood of 1913, the Hamilton Community Foundation and Colligan History Project began offering citizens a chance to purchase a flood level marker for their buildings.“We placed an initial order of 15,” said Curt Ellision, director of the Colligan History Project. “We have ...
Meals on Wheels feeds hundreds daily
About four years ago, when Richard Sunnenberg’s wife was diagnosed with cancer, something they had long taken for granted suddenly became a challenge: Getting a good meal every day.“She couldn’t get around much after she got cancer,” said Sunnenberg, 81. “I used to be able to cook when I was ...
Church welcomes first female pastor
Trinity Episcopal Church has welcomed Suzanne LeVesconte as its new “priest in charge,” the first female pastor in the congregation’s 190-year history.She replaces the Rev. Paul Daggett, who retired earlier this year after a 12-year tenure at the church, which is located in the Dayton Lane neighborhood at the intersection ...
Long-time auctioneer shares trade secrets
Harold “Arky” Vaughn learned his calling early on, and became one of the area’s top auctioneers, earning him a spot in the Ohio Auctioneer Association’s Hall of Fame.Vaughn took the hot seat Thursday evening for Miami Hamilton Downtown’s monthly “What’s Your Story?” series.“One of the early concepts of this series ...
Hamilton veteran recalls key WWII battle
When he was growing up on his family’s 150-acre farm in Montgomery County, Ky., John M. Cress learned how to hunt squirrels with a rifle and dig rabbits out of their holes in the winter.Little did he realize how those skills would come in handy when battling the Japanese on ...
Art project to adorn the underpass
The City of Hamilton is getting a little help from the City of Sculpture to enhance the East High Street Gateway project.The City of Sculpture has put out a call to artists to participate in PAINT — Partnering with Artists In New Turfs — a public art project that will ...
Firefighters, community gather to close East Side fire station
To the mournful tones of a bagpipe playing “Amazing Grace,” firefighters lowered the American flag from Hamilton Fire Station 27 on Shuler Avenue Tuesday evening, marking the end — at least for now — of more than 100 years protecting the homes and businesses of Hamilton’s East Side.More than 40 ...
Hamilton barber reflects on 50 years behind the chair
People mark their lives, in part, by where they were when they heard about a certain historical event. Where were you when John F. Kennedy was assassinated? When the space shuttle Challenger blew up? When terrorists flew airliners into the World Trade Center? For Glenn Mills, 71, the answer is ...
Scrapping laws creating difficulties for some
New state and local legislation aimed at combating scrap metal thieves is impacting the problem, police and business officials say, but it may also be creating some unintended victims.Wade Carpenter, 60, of Hamilton, said he is having trouble making it on the $700 a month he gets in disability, so ...
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