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Local veteran remembers the forgotten war
Jim Lewellyn knows first-hand why they call Korea “the forgotten war,” but a recent trip made him feel remembered for his service. “When I came back, nobody did us like they did the Vietnam veterans,” he said. “No one shook our hands or told us thanks for being away. We ...
Forum explores future of the river
The commemoration of the Great Flood 1913 turned toward the future Friday night as community leaders gathered for a forum to discuss the potential and the challenges of using the river as an asset for economic development in Hamilton.Hamilton was founded because of its access to the river, but after ...
Fairfield man survives abusive childhood, becomes advocate for children
Apart from the immediate danger of physical and emotional harm, the effects of child abuse can be insidious and even enigmatic.Gregg Ossman, for instance, has spent most of his life avoiding tall buildings because of debilitating fear that he eventually realized was the result of an incident in his youth.He ...
Rowing Center plans move to Smart Paper campus
The Great Miami Rowing Center may soon have a new home in a portion of the Champion/Smart paper mill that ceased operations in 2011 after nearly 130 years of paper making.If all goes as planned, the GMRC will soon take over the two newest structures in the complex on North ...
Hamilton Rotary Club welcomes international visitors
The Hamilton Rotary Club welcomed four visitors from Nigeria this week for a week-long stay.The visit is part of Rotary International’s Group Study Exchange, according to Rotarian Steve Timmer, in which the visitors experience the host country’s culture and institutions, observe how their vocations are practiced abroad, develop personal and ...
Hamilton Boys and Girls Club honors supporters
The Boys and Girls Club of Hamilton last week unveiled its Angel Wall to honor the recipients the biennial Angel Award recipients.The agency, which has two locations in Hamilton, handed out the inaugural Angel Award in 2011 to Donna Y. Carruthers, who died in 2009, for a lifetime of contributions. ...
Hamilton YWCA elects new board members
The coming year will be one of great change for the YWCA Hamilton as its reaches deeper into the community.“You will be seeing more of us in the next year in a variety of areas,” said Board of Directors President Kathy Dudley at the organization’s annual meeting last week. “One ...
Downtown church used as hospital after the flood
In the aftermath of the Great Flood of 1913, the Rev. Sheridan Bell, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, opened up the building to aid in the relief effort.It’s now the First United Methodist Church, and members John Haid and Teri Trent presented a flood commemoration program Saturday to ...
Hamilton honors its volunteers
The City of Hamilton paid tribute to its many volunteers last week with its first-ever Volunteer Recognition Dinner.“Volunteers make a city healthy,” said Mayor Pat Moeller. “Volunteers make a city breathe. Volunteers make a city smile.”“Volunteers, you energize us,” he said. “You inspire us. All of our lives are better ...
New video tells the story of the Great Flood
Middletown’s Sam Ashworth debuted his video documentary, “The 1913 Flood: Shadow Over the Miami Valley,” to a full house Friday night in the Heritage Hall Museum. Ashworth said he worked for about a year on the hour-long video, using archival film and photographs as well as readings from the diaries ...
Artists pay homage to 1913 Flood survivors
One of the many iconic photos from the Great Flood of 1913 is one of a man standing on a box, looking plaintively at the rising waters and the High-Main Bridge before it plunged into the rushing waters of the Great Miami River.Local dancer and choreographer Demetrius Klein and singer/songwriter ...
United Way honors its volunteers
The Butler County United Way honored its many volunteers at an awards breakfast Friday morning, then promptly put them to work.But the efforts were all a part of the annual “Day of Caring.”“United Way’s work can be summarized into four words: Give today, change tomorrow,’” said board chair Karen Mueller. ...
Ryan’s Tavern being sued by contractor
Ryan’s Tavern, a downtown Irish pub owned by a former Hamilton mayor, has been named a defendant in a lawsuit by Robert A. Saurber General Contractor for failing to pay $586,067 for the renovation of the building at 241 High St.The suit alleges breach of contract and misrepresentation, asking for ...
Conservancy’s work set standard for future flood control
The efforts of the Miami Conservancy District following the Great Flood of 1913 were an unprecedented engineering feat that set the standard for future flood control measures world-wide.Construction historian Dan Antenan provided a photographic overview of the effort in “Putting the Conservancy in Place and Making a Safe Channel in ...
Lane Library expands into historic downtown building
Foot traffic in Hamiton’s downtown core should get a big boost later this year when the Lane Libraries opens its community technology center in the Robinson-Schwenn Building.The move has been necessitated by the abundance of computer activity at the Library’s Third Street location, but it also allows the library to ...
Local veteran, business leader pens war memoirs
A 17-year-old high school senior at the time, Jim Steed said he didn’t even know where Pearl Harbor was in December 1941, but he looked it up after hearing President Franklin Roosevelt deliver his famous “day of infamy” speech.“It was a very inspiring speech,” he said. “I told my parents ...
Local veteran remembers the forgotten war
Jim Lewellyn knows first-hand why they call Korea “the forgotten war,” but last week, he took a trip that made him feel remembered for his service.“When I came back, nobody did us like they did the Vietnam veterans,” he said. “No one shook our hands or told us thanks for ...
City evaluates its ‘green’ assets
Although the city has a number of environmental and sustainability assets already in place, there’s still a long way to go before achieving the “greenest little city in America” status it seeks, according to Green Umbrella, a regional environmental advocacy group.One of the first steps is to let people know ...
Hamilton’s ‘grill’ comes down, art goes up
Even though occupancy is still more than a year away, the Artspace Hamilton Lofts is already sporting its first art exhibition.While workers from Historic Preservation Inc. spent last week removing the giant aluminum facade that has covered the historic building, formally known as the Mehrum-Lindley Block, since the late 1960s, ...
‘Heaven Is For Real’ parents coming to Hamilton
Since he started organizing the National Day of Prayer Breakfast a few years ago, the Rev. John Lewis, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in downtown Hamilton, said the event has been inching closer and closer to a sell-out.“We try to make it a community event for all denominations with music ...
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