Virtual Community School of Ohio teacher Laura Barlage of Amelia, received the “Teacher of the Quarter” award at the 2011 VCS Ohio Opening Day ceremony. Barlage increased her students’ OAA Reading test scores by 24 percent as well as created an incredibly innovative online classroom for her students.   She teaches third grade and has been [ Read More ]

Trina Stutz, of New Richmond, and David Stutz, of Hamersville, are happy to announce the engagement of their daughter, Heather Stutz to Matthew Ackels, the son of Faith and Danny Ackels of Hamersville. Heather and Matt both attended Western Brown High School and Thomas More College. Heather currently works as an IT Manager for the [ Read More ]

The first business of what came to be known as “The Hundred Days” was to straighten out the banks. Roosevelt’s original plan had been to get the emergency banking legislation enacted and send Congress home. However, the momentum generated by the banking bill now seemed too valuable to waste. On the evening of Wednesday, March [ Read More ]

Governor Kasich has designated Friday, Sept. 23 as Fall Prevention Awareness Day in Ohio. Although I’ve been working with older adults for nearly 40 years, I was surprised by the numbers issued in a recent report by the Ohio Department of Health. For example, falls are the leading cause of injury related emergency room visits, [ Read More ]

After President Obama finished his speech about jobs to a joint session of Congress last week, I handed him an envelope. It contained a letter that outlined how to create 4,000 jobs in South-Central Ohio with the stroke of a pen. I told him what the letter was about. He said: “Thank you, I’ll look [ Read More ]

It was a key match-up between two of the Fort Ancient Valley Conference East (FAVC-E) Division’s varsity volleyball powerhouses and the two Clermont County members of the FAVC-E and both of the teams are doing respectively well and winning the majority of their confrontations. Glen Este’s Purple and White hosted Milford’s Red and White and [ Read More ]

The New Richmond varsity girls soccer team lost a hotly contested, very closely contended confrontation to the visiting Eastern Warriors 1-0. The was a non-conference contest versus an adversary from the Southern Hills League. The encounter’s only point was accounted for in the first seven minutes of the game by the Brown countians. “We didn’t [ Read More ]

New Richmond’s Lions hosted Eastern High School and tied the Warriors 2-2 in non-conference varsity boys soccer action. The Warriors are a serious contender for the championship of the Southern Hills League, but the Lions were not dazed and showed no expression of any fear of the Brown countians as the Clermont countians fought back [ Read More ]

New Richmond had no major problems in beating Western Brown 34-7 in a Southern Buckeye Conference American Division varsity football showdown. The victory keeps the Red and Black undefeated in conference action. It was the first conference and division loss for the Brown and Gold. Western Brown came out throwing and not very successfully. The [ Read More ]

Amelia became a winner for the first time this season and Glen Este, Goshen, and Milford added additional victories to their totals following Week Four of the Clermont County high school varsity football campaign. Amelia 20 Batavia 19 In a thriller and a heartbreaker played very hard to the final second of the battle, Amelia [ Read More ]