 |  | | Opinions | | |  | | Rory Ryan | Gary Lewis | Jim Surber | Eric Deters | Letters to Editor | | Wrong criteria for candidates | Our society seems to have stooped to a new low. Good men who have been given much, and of which much is expected, have long ceased to be leaders. We have been left with tertiary wannabes with hidden agendas who wouldn’t have been given a second serious thought in the past. (3 comments)
 Friday, January 27, 2012 |  | | Banking era before 'too big to fail' | The Lynchburg banker knew the property well and what it was worth. He accepted responsibility if he made a bad loan. The people making the toxic loans were probably getting commissions or bonuses based on how many loans they made, and the loans were being sold to third or fourth parties so they and the organization they worked for had nothing to lose if the loan went bad. (1 comments)
 Friday, January 27, 2012 |  | | Mowrystown Recollections: Concord School 3 | An early school in Concord Township was near the corner of Pondlick Road and S.R. 136. Thomas and Hannah Roberts leased, for 99 years, a one-acre and 70-pole lot to the School Directors of District 3 for the grand sum of one cent for rent, which was payable on the first day of January on demand.
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|  |  |  | | Sports | | |  | | Hillsboro | Greenfield McClain | Lynchburg | Fairfield | Whiteoak | | Indians sweep SCOL dual with Golden Eagles and Panthers | The Hillsboro varsity wrestling teams have a way of making their South Central Ohio League dual matches on the interesting side, to say the least.
 Friday, January 27, 2012 |  | | Lady Mustangs topple Whiteoak | Coming off their biggest win of the season, the Lynchburg-Clay Lady Mustangs continued to add to their overall win total on Thursday night, defeating Southern Hills League and Highland County rival Whiteoak 48-27 at LCHS.
 Friday, January 27, 2012 |  | | East, Davis lead Tigers to 12th dual victory | Last season the McClain wrestling team did something that no other Tiger wrestling team had done before … they won 12 dual matches. On Wednesday, the Tigers had two chances to match that feat, and they did.
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 |  | | Obituaries | | |  | | Stella L. Morris | Stella L. Morris, 61, of Beaver, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012 at the Pike Community Hospital.
 Thursday, January 26, 2012 |  | | Ora M. Thompson | Ora M. Thompson, 88, of Hillsboro died Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012 at the Crestwood Nursing Center surrounded by his family and friends.
 Thursday, January 26, 2012 |  | | Elly Kay Manor Albert | Elly Kay Manor Albert, 37, of Bainbridge, died Monday, Jan. 23, 2012.
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