Staff report The Williamsburg Police Department is investigating an armed robbery that occurred at Medary’s Market on Main Street in the village on Feb. 18. According to a release from Sgt. Randall Ruehrwein, the robbery occurred around 10:57 p.m. at the grocery store, just before closing. A male, approximately 6 feet tall wearing a dark [ Read More ]

Staff The Clermont County Sheriff’s Office has reported that a body has been discovered Batavia Township. The decomposed body of a man was found in a tent in a wooded area near Old SR 74 at about 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22. In a press release, Clermont County Sheriff’s Office A.J. Rodenberg said that at [ Read More ]

The Miami Township Police Department is continuing its investigation of the death of 65-year-old Paul Leiter. According to autopsy results, Leiter died from gunshot wounds he suffered while at his home. He was shot at some time between 8 p.m. Monday Feb. 11 and 6 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12. The first call about the death [ Read More ]

Sheriff Dwayne Wenninger reports that on February 5, 2013 the Brown County Sheriff’s Office arrested Eric Reeves, 27 years of age, of Williamsburg, Ohio and Christina Fuller, 28 years of age, of Pleasant Plain, Ohio for manufacturing meth at a residence on Greenbush East Road near Mt. Orab, Ohio. The case was presented to the [ Read More ]

The Miami Township Police Department has arrested Scott Barrick, Age 39, of 1373 Fox Hunt Court and charged him with Operating a Motor Vehicle While Impaired (OVI). Because of his prior convictions, the arrest is considered a felony charge. Barrick has been convicted on six prior occasions for OVI. The most recent conviction was in [ Read More ]

The Miami Township Police Department has arrested Benjamin Z. Miller, age 23, of 5720 Hilltop Way, Milford, and charged him with twelve felony counts for the theft of multiple commercial air conditioning units. Miller was caught by police at 8:23 a.m. Monday, Feb. 18, with several stolen AC units in his possession. The units had [ Read More ]

The recent resignation of Alan Motta as the Clermont County Fair Board representative from Washington Township has created a vacancy on the board. The Clermont County Agricultural Society is currently accepting applications to fill this position. Candidates must be 18-years-old, residents of Washington Township, and must be willing to join the Clermont County Agricultural Society. [ Read More ]

By Art Hunter Jan Schoellman, a long-time precinct election official with the Clermont County Board of Elections, has received the Precinct Election Official Red Carpet Award from the office of the Ohio Secretary of State. Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted presented the award to Schoellman at a ceremony Tuesday, Feb. 12 at the Clermont [ Read More ]

By Art Hunter Three Clermont Northeastern High School government students have won awards in a county-wide essay contest sponsored by the Quin-T Democrat Club. The club is a grass-roots organization of Democratic activists in southern Clermont County. Kenneth Wright, a Quin-T member and essay coordinator, said that the idea for the contest grew out of [ Read More ]

By Kristin Bednarski Sun staff Making maple syrup may not be easy, but it can definitely be done, with patience, right here in Ohio. Naturalists Keith Robinson and Elizabeth Jones took a group of local residents through the entire maple syrup making process Feb. 16 at Pattison Park. Robinson and Jones gave a hands-on demonstration [ Read More ]