Phillipsburg News

Montgomery County Treasurer Carolyn Rice isn't looking for a silver bullet but Rice sure would like an additional tool to tackle the ever-growing number of vacant and abandoned properties scarring the county.

A man, woman and two children were taken to area hospitals Thursday night, Sept.

Here's some of what's new at Northmont schools. Englewood Elementary a Fourth-graders will be piloting a program that uses handheld computers to do research and take tutorials.

The Village Council has turned down buying Phillipsburg Elementary School for $1 with no strings attached.

On the day of the accident, Oct. 3, 2008, Dan Lassiter, a graduate of the Miami Valley Career Technology Center in Clayton, and a part-time student at Sinclair Community College, had taken off from his job at Walmart and had driven to Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton with his grandfather, Herman Ayres, 88, as a passenger.

His parents call him their living miracle. Dan Lassiter, a 20-year-old Phillipsburg man, lost his left leg above the knee and nearly his life in an automobile-truck crash on Oct.

When the news that NCR is winding down in Dayton and will be moving its headquarters to Georgia broke last week, I went through my files and dug out a fascinating letter sent to me by Edward "Eddie" White in 2001.