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Foundation awards community grants

Information SubmittedRISING SUN – The Ohio County Community Foundation awarded a total of $44,270.38 in Community Grants to 11 local non-profits during the second grant cycle of 2026. Each organization could request up to $5,000.The following grants were funded through the Ohio County Today & Tomorrow Endowment Fund, created by the city of Rising Sun…

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Wildcats earn bye, await Brave or Lancers

By Dick MaloneyContributorHARRISON – The path has been marked. It’s now up the Harrison High School football to clear it.Harrison concluded it regular season Oct. 23 with a 41-23 home win over Northwest, clinching both the final Southwest Ohio Conference championship and the No. 2 seed in the Division II Region 8 playoffs. The Wildcats…

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What precautions you should take if your garden flooded

John McMahan raises hogs, chickens and organic vegetables on his family’s northern Bartholomew County farm. Recent heavy rains and strong winds reduced his fields to muddy bogs and damaged his sweet corn and tomatoes.

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The Community Newspaper

By Jeremy Gulban Publisher CherryRoad Media When I was growing up in the early 1980s, we had a weekly newspaper in our town. There was a woman assigned to cover our little neighborhood. I remember…