Liberty Township
Gas, beef prices spike before holiday weekend
The price of two traditional staples of the Memorial Day weekend — beef and gasoline — are jumping just in time for the holiday.Wholesale prices of some grades and cuts of beef set record have reached all-time highs at the same time the region’s gasoline prices have spiked 30 cents ...
Fight at mobile home park ends with attempted murder charge
A 52-year-old Liberty Twp. man has been charged with attempted murder and felonious assault after firing multiple shots at his neighbor during an altercation Sunday at the Countryside Village Mobile Home Park.According to Butler County Sheriff’s officials, Paul E. Maye, of 214 Jacobs Street, allegedly fired shots from a revolver ...
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CHARDONSuperintendent leaving, shooting delayed planA northeast Ohio superintendent who guided the district after a school shooting that killed three students is stepping down, one year later than originally planned.Chardon Schools Superintendent Joseph Bergant will resign effective June 7.A public reception honoring Bergant was held before last week’s monthly board meeting.Bergant ...
Sheriff won’t support school levies unless districts look at armed personnel
Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones declared this week that he “won’t support a school levy again that doesn’t address school safety with armed personnel.” Jones’ comments were fueled by his disappointment that not a single county school district has adopted his proposal to use retired police officers as armed ...
Board of Elections approves precinct boundary changes
Thousands of Butler County voters will have a new precinct number when they head to the polls in November as a result of boundary changes made by the county board of elections this week.The board approved the changes Monday in West Chester, Liberty, St. Clair, Madison, Wayne and Milford townships, ...
New details Friday in AF officer sexual battery case
In the years leading up to his weekend arrest for groping a woman in a northern Virginia parking lot, Fairfield native Jeffrey Krusinski, the head of the Air Force’s sexual assault and prevention unit, appeared to be struggling personally. When his wife of 14 years, Cheryl Masanek, filed for divorce ...
Dayton congressman goes to White House today to discuss sex abuse in the military
U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Dayton, co-Chair of the Military Sexual Assault Prevention Caucus, met with White House officials today to discuss the issue of sexual assault in the military.Turner was to meet with President Barack Obama’s senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and Tina Tchen, the chief of staff to first lady ...
Ohioan is center of sexual abuse investigation
The Air Force has removed a Fairfield, Ohio, native who led the service branch’s sexual assault and prevention and response unit after he was charged with groping a woman in a parking lot Sunday morning in Arlington, Va. Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Krusinski, 41, worked at the Pentagon as chief ...
Hamilton sees resurgence of downtown dwellers
Choosing to live in Hamilton’s downtown means experiencing first-hand a local lifestyle resurgence, residents say. Living in downtown Hamilton became trendy again with the completion of the Historic Mercantile Lofts project, said John Holbrock, a lifelong Hamilton resident and president of the Hamilton-Fairfield-Oxford Board of Realtors. “That was probably one ...
Homearama in Butler County pushed back to July
The Home Builders Association of Greater Cincinnati has delayed this year’s luxury home show being held in Butler County.This year’s show takes place at the 400-acre Carriage Hill housing development in Liberty Twp. It was scheduled for June 8-23.The homebuilders trade group said show dates have been pushed back to ...
Senior reported missing from Butler Co. found safe
Authorities located a missing 73-year-old woman from Butler County.Carol Hohman, 73, was last seen around 10 p.m. Thursday at the United Dairy Farmers, 5000 Princeton Pike, in Liberty Township.Hohman is a white woman and was last seen wearing a green jogging suit and may be driving a 2012 Chevrolet Cruze, ...
Retail project seeks $35M in public money
Butler County commissioners and Liberty Twp. trustees have a more detailed look at a $300 million development that one of them described as “a city within a township.” Yaromir Steiner, CEO of Columbus developer Steiner + Associates, presented updated plans Thursday during a joint session of Butler County commissioners and ...
Liberty Twp. retail development signs first tenant, changes site plans
A multimillion dollar mixed-used retail, residential and office development proposed for Liberty Twp. has signed its first tenant, according to representatives of the developer. The clothing store Dillard’s has “recently” signed a lease to build an approximately 200,000-square-foot flagship store, said Brock Schmaltz, spokesman for Columbus development company Steiner + ...
Undercover officers arrest 18 in Butler County
In just two hours Wednesday, Butler County deputies with the undercover narcotics unit rounded up 15 suspects throughout the county.The Hamilton JournalNews/Middletown Journal was the only local news outlet to join the deputies Wednesday morning as they delivered indictments in Hamilton, Middletown, Fairfield and Liberty Twp.Officers were looking to take ...
Butler County home sales rise, prices continue to improve
Butler County’s housing market continues to gain traction, drawing homebuyers while prices are still historically low, local real estate experts said. Last month, sales of 388 single family homes and condominiums closed in Butler County. The number of homes sold rose nearly 39 percent year-over-year from 280 existing homes sold ...
Drug Take Back Day set for April 27
Nine locations will be available April 27 for Butler County residents to safely dispose of unwanted, unused or expired prescription medication — no questions asked. Public awareness and the proliferation of prescription medicine use among Americans has added to the success of the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day in ...
Butler County residents running in Boston Marathon describe hectic scene
Several Butler County residents who competed Monday in the Boston Marathon described a hectic scene following explosions near the finish line.Carrie Apling, 37, of Liberty Twp. said she was 200 feet from the explosions as they occurred.“It was pretty scary as soon as the first explosion went off,” Apling said. ...
Area families check on loved ones in Boston
Local family members of runners who participated in Monday’s Boston Marathon talked with Dayton Daily News and News Center 7 reporters in the aftermath of two deadly explosions at or near the finish line of the race. The story continued to develop Monday night, but according to the latest tally, ...
Golf outing to benefit Safety Town
A golf outing this summer will support a longstanding child safety program and memorialize the police officer who ran it for more than two decades.Officer Bob Gentry, who served on the Hamilton Police Department for 50 years, died last July at age 72. He was the longest serving police officer ...
West Side Little League to install ‘wall of honor’ memorializing fallen heroes
During ceremonies to open its 60th season, Hamilton’s West Side Little League will honor 22 soldiers with Butler County ties who died while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.A “wall of honor” will be installed Saturday on Field 5, the league’s coach-pitch field for players ages 6-8, at West Side Little ...
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