Groveport News

The Marching Fidels ham it up for the crowd on High Street during the annual Fourth of July Doo Dah Parade.

The Red Cross says it especially needs blood donors like Sam McKee of Groveport, left, and Terry Wilson of Columbus in the summer, when injuries increase and donations drop off.

LANCASTER - The Fairfield Union Board of Education will have its next regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the library at Rushville Middle School, 8155 Rushville Road, Rushville.

The Eastland-Fairfield Career and Technical Schools will have a special board of education meeting on June 30, at 7 p.m. The meeting will take place in the board conference room at 4300 Amalgamated Place, Groveport.

The Red Cross says it especially needs blood donors like Sam McKee of Groveport, left, and Terry Wilson of Columbus in the summer, when injuries increase and donations drop off.

Clothing retailer Eddie Bauer Holdings Inc. filed yesterday for Chapter 11 bankruptcy court protection, the latest retail casualty of the recession.

Columbus firefighters have agreed to freeze wages to offset shrinking city budgets.

Funeral services for Roy E. Byrum, 61, of Summit Station, will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the Frazeysburg Chapel of Vensil-Orr & Chute Funeral Home, 110 Third St.

WHOam I?: I'm a circulation district manager at the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette.I'm a Lancaster resident, but I grew up in Groveport.

GROVEPORT, Ohio a ' Just after midnight, a home was destroyed by fire on the citya TMs south side, but the mother and daughter living inside got out in time.

A very bad day for Ohio could have been much worse. General Motors yesterday announced it will cut about 1,000 jobs in the state, with 860 coming at a Mansfield stamping plant that will close next June.

A World War II-era artillery shell brought in by a 90-year-old woman created a stir at the Motts Military Museum in Groveport yesterday afternoon.

Three men are charged in connection with the beating of a homeless man in Reynoldsburg last month.

The barbecue "pit" is portable. When the summertime rolls around in Groveport, Ohio, folks start to think about holding pig roasts.

Ohio's U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown and George V. Voinovich spoke out Monday about giant GM's filing for bankruptcy.

Daily Times Deborah Brown from Groveport will perform a concert at 2 p.m. June 27 using the Austin Pipe Organ at Calvary Chapel on Franklin Avenue in Portsmouth.

Warren E. Motts, who runs the Motts Military Museum in Groveport, hoses down a 1952 weapons truck from the Korean War for Memorial Day festivities.

Three Granville girls and a Licking Valley girl advanced to the regional meet at Byesville with top-4 field performances in a Division II district meet in Groveport.

The Granville girls 3,200 relay of Anna Lamb, Mary-Claire Rocha, Sara Fondriest and Hannah Combe won in a time of 9:49.70 on Tuesday at the Division II district track meet at Groveport to advance to next week's regional meet at Byesville.

The following people were booked into the Fairfield County Jail Tuesday and Wednesday.