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The next step

Alex Dues signed to play baseball at Marietta College on Monday afternoon. Pictured from left to right in the front row are mother Jenny Dues, Alex and father Nick Dues. Back row are coach Kevin Eyink, sisters Maleia and Kylia, brothers Brennan and Jordan and assistant coach Ben Homan. (Photo …

New flags

Members of the Portland Evening Optimist Club and BSA Scouts Troop 202 of Jay County put up new flags Tuesday around Jay County Courthouse. Pictured from left are Bobby Ruiz, Blaine Finch, Linda Aker, Jason Sims and Ferrell Blazer. (Photo provided)

Sectional celebration

Jay County High School junior Jenna Dues celebrates alongside teammate Ariel Beiswanger and coach Joe Imel after the Patriots won the sectional championship in the 4x100-meter relay Tuesday at Delta. Joining Dues and Beiswanger on the winning team were Matilda Mende and Morgan DeHoff. For more on the meet, see …

Author hosted

Fort Recovery Public Library recently hosted author Kimberly Nixon. She has written two historical fiction novels based on the life of her grandmother, who received a felony conviction for train robbery in Tennessee in the 1940s. Pictured at right are community members who attended the discussion with Nixon, who is …

Flag for the Fallen

Addi Evitts holds up a small Honor and Remember flag Saturday morning at the Indiana Run for the Fallen stop in honor of Private Robert Leon McKinley, Specialist Justin Lee Mundy and Lance Cpl. Olivia L. Kustes. The run started its second day at Portland's Freedom Park and ended in …

Ahead of the rain

A farmer runs a disc harrow through a field Tuesday morning at the southeast corner of the intersection of county roads 400 East and 100 North. Time to get in the field could be limited this week as the forecast called for rain later in the day Tuesday, with rain …

Price pitch

Portland Lions Club pitcher Ryker Price prepares to toss a pitch Saturday during his team's Portland Junior League game against Portland Optimist Club.

Finishing at Freedom

Eric Butcher (center) and CR Dillon (left) of Portland lead the Indiana Run for the Fallen into Freedom Park at the close of the first day of the event Friday.

Heroic Homan

High School sophomore pitcher Jenna Homan exclaims after leaving the circle a final time during the Indians’ 10-2 victory over Wayne Trace in the Division III sectional title game Friday.

Donations made

Cincinnatus League recently presented checks to several organizations. Pictured are Julia Schwomeyer of Cincinnatus League, Drew Houck representing the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), Eric Hinderliter, Director of the Jay County Public Library, and Bob Vance representing the Jay County Baseball Club. (Photo provided)
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