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Editor’s note — We’re continuing our tradition of taking a look back each Saturday at some of the important, interesting or even odd events as they were reported during the same week throughout the years, along with interesting advertising features from years gone by.

Editor’s note — We’re continuing our tradition of taking a look back each Saturday at some of the important, interesting or even odd events as they were reported during the same week throughout the years, along with interesting advertising features from years gone by.

Editor’s note — We’re continuing our tradition of taking a look back each Saturday at some of the important, interesting or even odd events as they were reported during the same week throughout the years, along with interesting advertising features from years gone by.

Parade grand marshal Brian Vance and his wife Lori ride in a wagon. Vance is a longtime emcee for the parade.

With its rufescent exterior facade, momentous height, skyward jutting spires and a distinctive cupola, Bells Opera House on South High Street in Hillsboro is one of the small Midwestern town’s most well known, inspirational and beloved historical buildings and landmarks.

There’s a new shop open for business in Posey Plaza in downtown Greenfield and it was welcomed by the village Wednesday during the shop’s grand opening.

UNION TWP., Clinton Co. — Two people died in a head-on crash on U.S. Route 68 last Wednesday.

Pictured (l-r) being sworn in Wednesday is new Hillsboro Auditor Patty Day. Also pictured are her husband Herb Day (center) and Hillsboro Mayor Justin Harsha performing the ceremony.

Editor’s note: Jeffrey Owens is a Jeffersonville native, a 1995 graduate of Miami Trace High School and 2000 graduate of Ohio University. As a lifelong history buff, Owens published “Victory In Europe; A People’s History of the Second World War”, a more than 700-page analysis of World War II in Europe in 2015. Since 2015, Owens has hosted more than a dozen educational symposiums on a variety of military history topics at the Grove City Library. He is a resident of New Holland.

Editor’s note — We’re continuing our tradition of taking a look back each Saturday at some of the important, interesting or even odd events as they were reported during the same week throughout the years, along with interesting advertising features from years gone by.