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Ryan Gauthier has been covering Oxford, Talawanda School District and Miami University news for the Oxford Press since 2007. Originally from Rubicon, Wisc., Ryan graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in late 2006. He currently lives in Oxford along with his girlfriend and puppy.
Every Sunday, Candice Keller makes her way into a different Middletown area church and takes a seat in the second row.Sometimes she just mingles with parishioners. Other times she gets up in front of the congregation and talks about the work she and the Community Pregnancy Center are performing.For someone ...
MIDDLETOWN — The oxygen level inside the manhole where a city worker was killed and three firefighters were overcome by mysterious fumes hasn’t risen at all in the past three days, city officials said Monday, May 10. Oxygen measurements taken Monday were as low as they were during the tragic ...
MIDDLETOWN — Federal funds are on the way for several new transportation programs in the city, including shuttle service to and from Oxford and after-hours service within Middletown.City Council approved both routes last February, though they have been stuck in limbo until federal dollars were handed down to Middletown. The ...
MIDDLETOWN — It may not have been the resounding victory library officials hoped for, but unofficial election results show voters approving a 0.75-mill levy for the Middletown Public Library.The issue passed on a razor thin margin of 144 votes, according to final, unofficial returns from the board of elections in ...
MIDDLETOWN — Beneath a flickering light in the parking lot of the Take a Break Lounge on April 21, a 30-year-old man fatally stabbed another man in the heart with a large pocketknife, Middletown detectives said.Detective David Swartzel testified in Middletown Municipal Court on Wednesday, April 28, about security footage ...
MADISON TWP. — Two Butler County residents were killed Tuesday morning, April 27, in separate head-on crashes that involved semitrucks hitting vehicles that crossed the roadways’ center lines. Timothy R. Henry Sr., 34, of Middletown, was traveling east on Ohio 122 at about 10:30 a.m. in Madison Twp. when his ...
MIDDLETOWN — A Houston-based metal coating and metal building component manufacturing company is looking at investing nearly $18 million to create a facility in Middletown.NCI Building Systems Inc. is considering repurposing a Yankee Road facility to house a local branch of their international manufacturing operation. The company appeared before the ...
OXFORD — “Do you have the latest Danielle Steel book?”“Who is the district manager at Kroger?”“What is the weather like in New York?”No two questions are alike for a reference librarian, meaning each day on the job is a drastically different affair.Rebecca Smith, branch manager at the Oxford Lane Library, ...
MIDDLETOWN — Local police played a role in ending a manhunt nearly three decades in the making.Middletown police arrested Charles Austin, 56, Wednesday evening, April 21, at Legends bar, 1234 Central Ave. He was wanted on suspicion of smothering his 5-year-old daughter 27 years ago in Southern California.The arrest came ...
MIDDLETOWN — A 61-year-old charged with killing his ex-girlfriend’s kitten with a knife and baseball bat was in court Friday, April 23, for a pretrial hearing.Ernest Burton, a resident of Curtis Street, asked Judge Mark Wall to reduce the $8,000 bond keeping him in jail and allow him to pay ...
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