Group helps widows, widowers deal with grief

Hope for Soulmates is a four-week support group that is designed to offer understanding, compassion, and support for those who have lost their spouse or partner. Widows and widowers have their own specific set of reactions to process for this significant loss.

Pet store changes owners, stays open

The Pet Valu store in Harrison is now called Pet Supplies Plus. The new store, at 200 Biggs Blvd., will be locally owned and operated and will offer a variety of pet care products, toys and foods.

Around Town

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Transmission line work continues over I-275

Duke Energy will continue to replace and upgrade a power line across Interstate 275 the next two weekends in March, impacting southbound and northbound lanes beginning March 6 through March 21, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each weekend day, weather permitting.

Eric Mayer, second from left in front, donated smoke alarms to the Harrison Fire Department. SUBMITTED PHOTO

Fire dept. receives smoke alarms

Smoke detectors are a necessity in any home. The Harrison Fire Department recently received a donation of the alarms from State Farm Insurance agent Eric Mayer.

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Don’t let anyone tell you you don’t belong

Being a female who has worked in a “man’s” world my entire career, I would like to share my thoughts a b o u t National Women’s Month. I support it and think that it is important that we recognize women and the accomplishments that they have made. It is great to see so many qualified and accomplished women in leadership roles and in male-dominated industries today where they were not included in the past.

Time to uncoil Wildcat spring sports

The Harrison wrestling season is over. Eight Wildcats qualified to the Division I District Tournament at Fairmont; seven participated; five won at least one match; three won at least two, and two finished the season with 30 or more victories.

Harrison’s softball team works out on the artificial turf practice field at the school March 1. PHOTO BY DICK MALONEY

Softball team will look a lot different in 2021

The weather in Tybee Island, Georgia, was likely much warmer, and calmer, than in Harrison, Ohio, where the ever-present winds roared in from the west, across Cincinnati West Airport and the new artificial turf practice field at Harrison High School. The sun was shining, March had arrived, but winter was trying to hold on.

This is amp of the area where Little Egypt is located. There are unexplained stories that occurred in that area over the years. SUBMITTED PHOTO

Mysteries still shroud Little Egypt

Perhaps you have heard the wonderful 1960s rock ‘n’ roll song “Little Egypt” recorded by the Coasters or even read about a famous burlesque girl with the same name Little Egypt? To your possible amazement, Harrison, Ohio, also had a “Little Egypt” but it was not a song nor a gentleman’s club dancer but an area of low land ground in the Whitewater Valley. If you travel on Kilby Road as you pass over Dry Fork Creek that is what was once known as Little Egypt.