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Sold sale up at Miamitown

The Southwest Local School District board accepted a bid for the sale of Miamitown Elementary at the school board meeting on March 18. Tom Ratterman placed the bid for $800,000 cash with no contingencies, according to Southwest Local Schools Treasurer Thomas Lowe.

Man killed in 3-vehicle crash

One man was killed and several injured in a Friday afternoon three-vehicle crash near the Ohio and Indiana border in Harrison Township, Indiana. Andrew Weisenbach, 85, of Batesville was a passenger in a Hyundai SUV driven by Gregory Riede, 69, of West Harrison, according to the Dearborn County Sheriff’s office.

Rob Hursong

Fire dept. ready to vaccinate homebound

The Harrison Fire Department is offering the opportunity for homebound residents to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Residents in Harrison and Harrison Township who cannot travel to get the vaccine have the option to have the vaccine brought to them.

Harrison’s Kyle Hater, above, clears the bar on a pole vault during Harrison’s all-comers meet Saturday. Senior Shaunti Tolliver, at left, warms up for the shot put competition, which she would win. PHOTOS BY DICK MALONEY

Track season bursts from blocks at All-Comers meet

Harrison High School hosted its annual all-comers track and field meet Saturday. In all-comers meets, teams can enter as many athletes as they like in each event; in regular meets, they are limited to two.

This is the area where Dyke Industries is planning to build in the West Harrison Business Park. The company is expected to employ 56 workers. Paperwork on the land sale is still being worked on. MAP USED COURTESY OF GOOGLE MAPS

New industry moving to West Harrison

A tract of land in West Harrison next to Interstate 74 is expected to be home to a new industry in the West Harrison Business Park in Dearborn County. Dyke Industries is a 150-year-old company that assembles pre-hung interior and exterior doors, windows and other building materials.

It might be spring, but salt storage is a topic

Greendale plans to construct a 30 foot by 30 foot concrete/pre-engineered metal salt storage building at 325 Rand Ave., after the Board of Works gave its approval at a meeting March 10. The project will be completed in this spring.

Kevin Leech, left, and Spencer Powell are two of the Trojan Media Productions crew that help stream live events at East Central High School. LAURA A. HOBSON/THE JOURNAL-PRESS

Crew streams from East Central

If there is a positive side to the COVID pandemic, and there are few, it’s the place Trojan Media Productions has carved out. The production “company” of the Sunman-Dearborn Community Schools Corp.