A member of Preserve Our Schools, a community group organized to oppose the Batavia Local School District’s proposed school construction project, addressed the board of education at its June 23 meeting.

Deborah White has been named the new executive director of the Clermont Family YMCA. White, who was introduced to the Clermont community in a meet and greet event held at the Batavia YMCA facility June 30, was chosen from a number of interested candidates after a nation-wide search to replace former director Whit Hickman.

The village of Neville celebrated its bicentennial with a festival June 28. Attended by approximately 1,000 people, the festival was designed not only to celebrate 200 years as a municipality, but to allow native Neville families a chance to recognize and reunite with loved ones.

Seventeen years ago this week, July 1, 1991 I walked through the doors of Clermont Senior Services to assume the duties of executive director. I was new to the community, but I had known Lois Brown Dale since 1978 through my previous employment at the Council on Aging in Cincinnati.