Edison Student Feature… Katie
Roseberry on Pokémon Go, By Julie Roseberry
On July 6th, 2016 the virtual world became even more like reality. For
twenty years, Pokémon has been a virtual game where you collect special
animalistic aliens in spheres to later battle with them against other
players. This was originally done with pocket-edition games. The
developers decided to take this virtual world to another step. They
took...
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Miss Annie Oakley 2016… Hurd
Top
Shooter, awarded Best Costume, By Bob Robinson
“So who’s going to win?” “I am,” came a chorus of several of the six
contestants for Miss Annie Oakley 2016. The 2015 first runner-up, Katie
Hurd, talked about the power of positive thinking to the other girls
during practice rounds. Whether it was positive thinking or just good
shooting is open for debate… Hurd, 16-year-old junior at...
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Darke County Sheriff… Injury
accident leaves teen in critical condition
On July 27, 2016 at 10:31 PM Darke County Sheriff’s Deputies, along
with Liberty Township Fire Department, Tri Village Rescue, Ohio State
Highway Patrol Motor Carrier Enforcement and Indiana University
Health’s Lifeline responded to an injury accident at the intersection
of Main Street and Cross Street in the village of Palestine.
Preliminary... read
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Pollinators:
The Workers for Us All, From Doug
Steinbrunner, Darke
S.W.C.D.
Pollinators are responsible for the pollination of over 90 plants that
we eat every days. They may be the raw fruits and vegetables to
supplements we take on a daily basis. Even though honey bees are the
first, and sometimes the only insect that people think about when they
hear of pollinators, there are hundreds of other species that
contribute... read
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CORN
and Beef
Newsletters, From Sam Custer, OSU Extension,
Darke County
While our perennial pasture growth may slow down in the hot dry days of
summer, perhaps there’s an alternative that thrives in late summer Ohio
weather. This week Christine Gelley talks about the virtues of
crabgrass in a pasture situation. Her article in Ohio BEEF Cattle is
entitled “Does crabgrass really hate you?” CORN Newsletter highlights
Weather Outlook... read
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Financial
Achievement Services adds two new team members
(July 22, 2016, GREENVILLE, OHIO) Financial Achievement
Services
Inc (FAS), a 39-year-old financial services firm in Greenville Ohio,
announces the addition of two new members to their Greenville team.
Carol Muhlenkamp joined FAS in the spring as an Administrative
Specialist. Carol’s role will be within our talented Administrative... read
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Greenville Police Department… Robberies
at Walgreens & Subway
On July 21, 2016 at approximately 7:11 p.m. Greenville Police
Department units were dispatched to the Walgreen’s at 1000 E. Main St.
in reference to an armed robbery in progress. It was reported
the
suspect produced a handgun and demanded drugs. The description of the
suspect is a white male, approximately 50’s to 60’s in age, wearing... read
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Inside Higher Education… Spellings:
$500 Tuition a 'Game Changer', By Rick Seltzer
July 12, 2016 - Margaret Spellings has been president of the University
of North Carolina system for less than five months, but she already has
change upon change to discuss. Several provisions passed by the state
Legislature during this year’s budget season are poised to spark
drastic changes within the 17-campus UNC system...
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Main Street Greenville… Fun
and
colorful new bike racks have arrived!
We are so excited to announce the bike racks have been installed, thank
you to the city of Greenville Street Department for completing the
installation. If you are heading downtown, check them out! They are so
fun and colorful, you will not miss them! The bike rack project was
completed by the volunteers on our Design Committee. We truly... read
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Eagles
awards
two scholarships through DCSF
The Greenville Fraternal Order of Eagles No. 2177 awarded two
scholarships through the Darke County Scholarship Fund on July 19,
bringing the total number of scholarship recipients from the Eagles to
14 over the last four years. Recipients this year are Ashley Mikesell,
daughter of Eagles member Rodney Mikesell, and Ashton Kester... read
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Ohio Department of Education… KRA
Family Resources
6/17/2016 - The Office of Early Learning and School Readiness has
posted new resources for parents and families about the Kindergarten
Readiness Assessment (KRA). The Welcome to Kindergarten-KRA Family
Resource document is a resource to help communicate the purpose of the
KRA with parents and caregivers. The...
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Red
Cross
offers safety tips for the extreme heat
Extreme heat kills more than hurricanes, floods, tornadoes &
lightning combined. Miami Valley OH (July 21, 2016) — Heat-related
incidents and illness are preventable, yet annually many people succumb
to extreme heat. Extreme heat, in fact, kills more people each year
than hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and lightning combined. “People
don’t often... read
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DAR
Sets
Guinness World Record for Patriotism
Fort GreeneVille Chapter Helps DAR Collect 100,904 Letters to Military
Personnel in One Month - To celebrate the National Society’s 125th
Anniversary and the culmination of the Celebrate America! volunteer
service initiative, the DAR channeled its fervor for patriotism and
dedicated support of our nation’s military service...
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Inside Higher Education… Floundering
Finances, the Faculty Role: a Survey of Business Officers,
By Rick Seltzer - July 15, 2016 - College and university chief business
officers increasingly agree higher education is in a financial crisis,
yet many are divided over the role a key constituency on campus should
play as institutions grapple with budget issues: their faculty members.
Those are major findings in Inside Higher Ed’s 2016 Survey... read
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NFRW
President
Calls for Unity in Republican Convention Speech
'Women support Trump! Women ... will unify the party.' - CLEVELAND –
Carrie Almond, president of the National Federation of Republican Women
(NFRW), called for unity in the Republican Party and encouraged
everyone to “get on board” during her speech to the Republican National
Convention at Quicken Loans Arena this afternoon...
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Lentz
to become
Agriculture Program Director at Edison State
Edison State Community College is pleased to welcome Mr. Brad Lentz as
the Agriculture Program Director. Lentz’s prior experience in
agricultural education will prove to be instrumental as he helps to
build and support the college’s new agribusiness program, which is set
to launch this fall at Edison State’s Darke County campus. “We are
thrilled... read
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Empowering
president talks about helping at-risk kids
“As many as one out of 10 Darke County students don’t graduate on time.
Many of them simply drop out of school,” said Eric Fee, president of a
new organization, Empowering Darke County Youth. The local business
owner of Oliver Floyd and Braund Pope Funeral Homes talked to Kiwanis
of Greenville members and guests about these...
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Ohio Department of Education… Ohio
School Report Cards
Ohio School Report Cards are a way to see how your child’s school is
performing. They are designed to help give parents and communities an
annual update on the variety of components that together show how well
students are learning, growing and achieving. An A to F grading scale
shows where your child’s school is succeeding, as well as... read
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Darke
County Sheriff… Single
car
accident on Brown Road
On July 19, 2016 at approximately 7:39 AM Darke County Deputies, along
with Ansonia Fire, Ansonia Rescue and CareFlight were dispatched to the
5300 block of Brown Road on single vehicle injury accident. Preliminary
investigation revealed a brown 2013 Nissan Altima, driven by Paul R.
Evans, 62, Fort Recovery, Ohio was eastbound on Brown Road in the 5300
block. Evans failed to negotiate a curve causing the vehicle to travel
off... read
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Annual Farm Power Reunion offers
taste of
the past, By Bob Robinson
Park the car two blocks away and you could still hear the “putt putt
pop pop” of internal combustion engines from the early 20th century. It
told you the 17th Annual Greenville Farm Power of the Past had taken
over the Darke County Fairgrounds. The event ran four days, from July 7
through July 10. It was a clear day… not too hot, not too cool.
Entertainment included the Pumpkin...
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Agricultural Law & Taxation Blog… Congress finalizes mandatory GMO
labeling
law,
From Sam Custer, OSU Extension, Darke County -- After several years of
debate over voluntary versus mandatory GMO (genetically modified
organism) labeling, Congress passed legislation yesterday to create a
unified national standard requiring disclosure of information for
bioengineered foods. Predictions are that President Obama
will
sign the legislation soon. Once effective, the new law will
preempt state laws...
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Edison Student Feature… Typical
Teenager to Successful Business Owner, By
Lincoln Rapp
What does it take for someone to be considered successful?
Does a
person have to display achievements, money, or fame? Or does the person
simply have to survive? Seth Angle is in his early forties and lives
near Covington, Ohio. He is married and has five
children.
He is the owner of a custom engineering firm...
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CORN
and Beef
Newsletters, From Sam Custer
OSU Extension, Darke County - The weather patterns we experienced in
Ohio this spring seem to have allowed many biennial and perennial weeds
to flourish. Some of those weeds happen to be poisonous when consumed
by livestock. This week Clif Little offers additional information on
“plants of concern to livestock . . . “ In this issue of the CORN
newsletter... read
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Cleveland Plain Dealer… Why
aren't record lottery profits cutting your school tax bills?
Patrick O'Donnell, The Plain Dealer - COLUMBUS, Ohio - Monday's
announcement that the Ohio Lottery made a record profit of $1 billion
in the last year raised - yet again - a common question that arises
each time schools seek a new levy or the state sets new funding for
schools. Since all lottery profits go to schools, why are school taxes
so... read
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NPR… School's
Out, And For Many
Students, So Is Lunch, Avery Lill
July 7, 2016 - During the school year, about 30.3 million children
receive free or reduced-price lunches at their public schools. But in
the summer, only 2.6 million of those students receive a free or
reduced lunch. That's fewer than 10 percent. When school is out, free
lunches are only offered at select locations through each school
district, not... read
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Ohio Department of Education… Draft
Revised Standards in ELA and Math Available for Review and Comment
- 7/8/2016 - The Ohio Department of Education opened an online survey
today allowing individuals and groups to comment on proposed changes to
Ohio’s Learning Standards in English language arts and mathematics. The
survey is part of an effort that began in February to improve and
update the standards, which are...
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Attorney General DeWine… Sexual
Assault Kit Testing gets over 4,000 CODIS hits
(COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced today that
DNA testing conducted as part of the Attorney General's Sexual Assault
Kit (SAK) Testing Initiative has now resulted in more than 4,000 hits
in the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). As of July 1, 2016, a total
of 4,055 matches to DNA profiles already in the CODIS database... read
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Darke County Sheriff… DCSO
K9
Britta has received body armor
Darke County Sheriff’s Office K9 Britta has received a bullet and stab
protective vest thanks to a charitable donation from non-profit
organization Vested Interest in K9s, Inc. K9 Britta’s vest is sponsored
by a memorial donation to honor the late Donnie Buff of Powhatan Point,
OHand embroidered with the sentiment “In memory of S.W.A.T. Officer Don
Buff”. Vested Interest in K9s, Inc. is a 501c...
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Independence Day… Weather
doesn’t stop New Madison celebration, By Bob
Robinson
It was a few minutes to 3 p.m. on July 4. People were lined along the
street, waiting for first signs the parade had begun north of town.
Sprinkles from an overcast sky had just started. “Think it will hold
off another hour?” “We can only hope.” Regardless, it was Independence
Day in New Madison, Ohio. The weather didn’t keep people... read
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Darke County Sheriff… Inmate
death investigation
The Darke County Coroner’s Office and the Darke County Sheriff’s Office
are investigating the death of an inmate while incarcerated in the
Darke County Jail. On Wednesday July 6, 2016 at approximately
7:10 AM corrections officers discovered 50 year old Thomas Rochow, of
Greenville, Ohio lying on his bed pulseless and not
breathing.
Corrections... read
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Darke
County Sheriff’s Office… Single
car accident on Horatio-Harris Creek
Road
On July 8, 2016 at 1:38 PM Darke County Sheriffs Deputies, along with
Bradford Fire Department, Bradford Rescue and Miami Valley Careflight,
responded to a single vehicle injury accident in the 8300 block of
Horatio Harris Creek Road. Preliminary investigation reveals that Levi
Brown (18), of Covington Ohio, lost control of his 1992 Honda
Accord. Mr. Brown’s vehicle struck a power pole causing
injury.
Mr. Brown was flown...
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Field
Days,
Corn & Beef Newsletters, From Sam
Custer, OSU
Extension, Darke County
We have a lot going on in the county in the next couple of
weeks.
Please find attached flyers for two field days next week: July 12
Western Ohio Precision Ag Field Day, July 14 Spray Diagnotistics Field
Day. Register today and not be shut out. Six articles in the
Corn
Newsletter; Four new articles posted in the Ohio Beef Cattle letter.
This week’s CORN newsletter can be found at...
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Park
District
introduces kids to nature, By Bob Robinson
The end of a school year brings multiple activities to young people,
each designed to educate and entertain students at their grade level.
For kindergarten it was a trip to the Darke County Parks. Parks
volunteers had a variety of nature’s offerings waiting for the
students. Kindergartners learned about the native plants and trees, as
well as had... read
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FBI
Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton E-Mails,
FBI
Director James B. Comey
Remarks prepared for delivery at press briefing - Good morning. I’m
here to give you an update on the FBI’s investigation of Secretary
Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail system during her time as Secretary
of State. After a tremendous amount of work over the last year, the FBI
is completing its investigation and referring the case to the
Department of... read
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DeWine
Warns of
Grandparent Scams
(COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today warned of
phone scams targeting Ohio grandparents, following an increase in
complaints. In the past month, 11 Ohioans have reported losing an
average of $3,800 to the “grandparent scam.” Most said they paid over
the phone using iTunes gift cards after receiving a call saying... read
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