Features

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  A night of many Perry League firsts

  
  
  

  Our all-volunteer program is noncompetitive, free, and open to children aged 2–9, regardless of their race, color, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, spiritual inclination or practice, ability or disability.

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  Crome Architecture brings new life to old church

  
  
  

  Max Crome is nearing completion designing and renovating an architecture studio located at the former site of the predominantly African American First Baptist Church.

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  Emergent Verse | Sensuality of loss

  
  
  

  “I like to keep an open mind and see if poets can work naturally within their chosen forms so that nothing feels stiff or manipulated, the rhymes unpredictable, the whole pleasing and surprising, yielding a complete meal for the mind and senses.”

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  COVID Update | July 7, 2022

  
  
  

  After months listed at a “low” community level for COVID-19 by the Centers for Disease Control, Greene County rose to a “medium” level last week, according to the CDC’s website.

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  Township Trustees approve fire levy

  
  
  

  At its June 27 meeting, the Miami Township Board of Trustees voted to approve a resolution of necessity to move forward with placing a 3.5-mill continuing levy on the November ballot.

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  Fourth of July, 2022 — mixed messages

  
  
  

  In addition to the traditional reds, whites and blues, the village’s annual Fourth of July celebrations took on several other hues this year: anger and sadness swirled and clashed with jubilation to color the festivities.

Village Council

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  Village Council denounces Roe v. Wade decision

Obituaries

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  John Patrick Finn