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COLUMBUS — A Hillsboro City Schools and Great Oaks Career Campuses school board member will be honored with the Ohio School Boards Association’s (OSBA) most esteemed award.

COLUMBUS — Ohio’s annual white-tailed deer gun hunting week is off to a good start, with hunters checking 17,193 deer on Monday, Nov. 28, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife.

What links the Hocking Hills with Armenia; Morea, French Polynesia; Qatar and Georgia’s Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge? All of these are included on Forbes recently released list of the world’s 50 Best Places to Visit in 2023. Citing the region’s endless hiking trails, waterfalls, cliffs, recessed caves and hemlock forests, Forbes’ travel experts call Ohio’s Hocking Hills “an outdoor wonderland” and “Ohio’s prettiest spot.”

A Greenfield remedy for lingering post-pandemic blues will be an uplifting Christmas musical extravaganza to unfold Sunday, Dec. 18. The Pipes of Christmas will highlight the three magnificent and historical organs in Greenfield.

Hillsboro First Baptist Church will once again offer a free Feast for The King meal to the public on Christmas Day.

When Collier’s magazine, a Springfield, Ohio-based, nationally distributed weekly periodical, published its Oct. 14, 1944, edition, its then circulation of 2.5 million subscribers had the opportunity to read about an enterprise that was doing its part for the war effort — The C.S. Bell Company in Hillsboro.

The Highland County Land Reutilization Corporation (land bank) held a special meeting Friday to discuss a barn on S.R. 73 previously put on hold for demolition due to asbestos.

Of course, with Thanksgiving just a day behind us, it’s time for some grateful introspection: to do some cerebral mining in the tunnels of our lives to this point, sorting through our personal hardships and the national stories that so often sadden us, and search for some nuggets of positivity.

Rock Cliff Acres Show Goats can be found on S.R. 138 in Hillsboro, where it is owned and operated by Jeff Burnett and Amy St Clair. The past year and a half has been full of much deserved success for the RCA team: state banners, national titles, and even a Man of The Year Nomination for the buck they raised called WhiteClaw.

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.