College Notes
Residents Earn WGU degrees The following residents have earned a degree from Western Governors University (WGU). The online, nonprofit university has graduated over 218,000 students from across the country since its inception in 1997.
Wildcat coaches support shot clock
Troy Kinnett and Andy Marx saw the same game from different perspectives, and came away with the same conclusion. Harrison’s boys basketball team was playing Western Hills in the second round of the Division I sectional tournament in February 2020 at Hamilton High School.
Girls second as Butler sets SWOC pole vault record
Edgewood’s boys and Talawanda’s girls are the Southwest Ohio Conference team track and field champions for 2021, but Harrison’s athletes impressed the home crowd May 11. Freshman Natalie Kiefer set a school record in the 1,600- meter run 1,600-meter run, breaking the mark she set only 11 days earlier, and senior Olivia Butler set a league record in the pole vault with a mark of 10-feet, 6-inches.
Tombragel leaves legacy as 3-sport star
She was one of the fastest athletes at Harrison High School – a playmaker in the fall, disrupter in the winter and record-setter in the spring. 2021 graduate Ava Tombragel left her mark across three seasons for the Wildcats, and will now take her talents to Miami University Hamilton.
Look! Up in the sky
Firework sales have boomed during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, and area retailers urge shoppers to purchase early to avoid the disappointment of not finding the specific item you have been anticipating all year.
Group trying to stop Rumpke landfill expansion
When Donna Engel bought her home on Bond Road in October 2019, she knew about the nearby landfill but was told nothing extreme would happen at the site. Just over a year later she joins her neighbors and other nearby residents in an effort to stop a future expansion of the Bond Road Landfill.
A selling smile
Jack Rosenberger shyly smiles during the Dearborn County Fair Livestock Auction Friday, June 25, at the Lawrenceburg Fairgrounds. Rosenberger was auctioning off his steer. He auctioned his reserve grand champion market lamb earlier in the night. MARC EMRAL/THE JOURNAL-PRESS
‘Trapped inside a washing machine’
As he quietly sat appreciating the beauty of morning sunlight shining off the water of a Guilford creek, Levi Batta was awed how something so peaceful and tranquil could days earlier nearly take his life and the lives of several others.
John Klein
John Klein, age 72, passed on June 20, 2021 at Riverside Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, from COVID. He was predeceased by his parents, Gene and Lucille Klein, and his sister, Emily Klein.
Death Notices
Jeffery “Jeff” Coy, 59, of Vevay, passed away Sunday, June 27, 2021, at his residence. Arrangements entrusted to Filter-DeVries-Moore Funeral Home..