Centerville News

The Ohio Supreme Count ended the debate over whether city employees should be required to live in Dayton, but speculation continues on how that decision will reshape the city's work force and neighborhoods.

July 4 falls on a Saturday this year, and restaurants are taking different tacks to celebrate Independence Day.

The Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority is changing Routes 14 and 23 in Centerville and Washington Twp.

April Kinnett opened April's Painting and Decorating five years ago and was frustrated when her small business wasn't growing the way she'd hoped at first.

WASHINGTON TWP., Montgomery County - Three days to get there. When they arrive the group can expect no Internet access, no television, a scarcity of electricity and cold showers taken by pouring water from a bucket over their heads.

Two tractor trailers crashed about 12:20 this morning on Interstate 80 at milepost 163 in Marion Township, resulting in minor injuries to the two drivers and closing one lane of the highway for six hours.

Pamela Cochran, property manager of Town & Country Shopping Center, 300 E. Stroop Road, has been chosen to be the 2009 Holiday at Home Grand Marshal, according to Bill Tschirhart, spokesman for Holiday at Home.

Levy failures and state budget cuts mean school districts have to find more ways to pay for students' education and activities.

The Centerville Police have charged five men aged 18 to 21 with criminal damaging and possession of criminal tools in connection with more than 130 reports of damaged mailboxes in at least five neighborhoods of Centerville during the early morning and late evening hours of Tuesday, June 16.

At the May 7 meeting of Dayton's Woman's Literary Club, held at the Dayton Country Club in Oakwood, Centerville resident Celia Elliott, 86, became the fourth Writer Laureate in the club's 110-year history.

They may just have smashed one too many mailboxes. Centerville police have nabbed two men, ages 18 and 20, at 11:16 p.m. Tuesday, June 16, on E. Alex Bell Road, who admitted to vandalizing mail boxes mostly in the eastern neighborhoods of Centerville.

A specialized medical practice will be the first tenant in a new Washington Township medical office building.

The Better Business Bureau said Tuesday, June 9, that it has received consumer complaints about PPC Flash, described as an advertising specialties company, but has been unable to contact the firm.

FLORENCE - The Connor Group, a Centerville-based owner and manager of more than $1 billion in real estate assets, has signed a $19.5 million deal to purchase the Trellises, a more than 300 unit apartment community in Florence.

Times are tough and many are finding that annual, coss-country family vacations aren't in the realm of economic possibility this year.

Harry Potter fans are invited to kick off summer with a Wizard Rock the Lawn music concert at the Stubbs Park amphitheater, west of the Centerville Library, 111 W. Spring Valley Road.

Centerville junior Kaciea Kumar's design beats outa nearly 120 high schoolers and one graduate.

Former Chaminade Julienne High School girls basketball coach Marc Greenberg pleaded not guilty Thursday, June 4, to 12 counts of using the Internet to transmit obscene material to individuals younger than 16.

Kids love him. Parents love him. And he's coming to the area for a free performance.

Even though at least one NCR employee saw the literal writing on the wall months ago, it didn't set in until Tuesday, June 2. "I think it was earlier this year that I noticed that they changed the sign out front," said the employee, who spoke with the Dayton Daily News on condition of anonymity.