Lovington Eighth Grade Class Promotion
The following Lovington eighth grade students were promoted to ninth grade at a ceremony Thursday, May 29 and received awards listed in parenthesis: … Read More
Not One for Plot, but “42nd” Big on High Energy Numbers
By Dan Hagen NP Theatre Critic When you think of the generic term “Broadway musical,” the Little Theatre’s 2014 summer season opener — “42nd Street” — is probably the kind of show that springs to mind. It’s that “You’re going out there a youngster, but you’re coming back a star!” musical. Yes, that very bit has been a cliché for 70 or 80 years now, at least since the deep Depression debut, in 1933, of the Dick Powell/Ruby Keeler film that inspired this 1980 stage musical. And that’s the problem I always have with this show, the paper-thin plot we’re … Read More
Shelby County Sales Tax Revenue Expected to Begin in November for Okaw Valley
Board approves sales tax resolution for November ballot by Joash Tiarks Bethany Reporter With residents passing the one percent Facility Sales Tax initiative for Shelby County, Okaw Valley schools voted in June to finalize their receipt of their portion of the sales tax revenue, which could begin as early as November. … Read More
No More Pining Away at OVMS
Tree donation replaces those removed last year by Jake Dilley Reporting in Findlay Okay Valley Middle School received a donation from the Findlay Planning Committee two weeks ago in the form of 50 white pine trees. With a $250 donation to the project from the Findlay Planning Committee and trees from Roger Kirkwood, the task was underway. The original windbreak, planted in 1943, had contracted a disease last year. With the trees literally falling over, they had to be cut down. Mike Cummins, the Okay Valley Middle School principal, was then approached by Kirkwood with a proposal on the new … Read More
Area Valedictorians and Salutatorians
Below are area high school valedictorians and salutatorians: Arthur Lovington Okaw Valley Sullivan Windsor … Read More
Saluting, Memorializing
Lady Red Make School History with Regional Championship
Defeat host Shelbyville 5-3 Saturday by Keith Stewart keith@newsprogress.com According to Sullivan head coach Ben Richter, Saturday’s regional championship victory over Shelbyville marked the first ever in school history. But that’s just icing on an already overtopped cake. “Let’s just say many of the girls were in tears or almost in tears,” said senior pitcher Elizabeth Inman. “Our team has never been closer than this year, and it feels so great to accomplish something so big with all of these wonderful ladies.” Sullivan’s biggest inning came in the second starting with Brittin Boyer’s at-bat where she hit the game’s only … Read More
Walks Get the Best of OV in Regional Title Loss
St. T wins 10-4 Sat. by Keith Stewart keith@newsprogress.com In a game where OV pitcher Devon Still had an uncharacteristically high number of walks, seven in four innings, St. Teresa capitalized and came out on top Saturday with a 10-4 regional title win. … Read More
Goodman Finishes Career Best at State
After two years of 8th, senior earns 5th by Keith Stewart keith@newsprogress.com “That number eight, it gets me.” What Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond senior Karly Goodman is referring to is not only her last two years of finishing eighth at state in the shot put, but even the fact that after Thursday’s preliminaries, the senior was seeded none other than eighth coming into Saturday’s finals. But Goodman wouldn’t have it a third year. Instead, the senior hurled a throw of 39 feet 3/4 inches for a fifth place finish, just 1 1/2 inches out from fourth. … Read More
Obituaries 5-28-2014: Don Harris
Don Harris A memorial service for Don G. Harris, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF (Retired), 81, was held at 7 p.m. Thursday in Gallant Funeral Home in Waterville, Me. He died Friday May 16, 2014 in Inland Hospital in Maine. … Read More