The top awards for the 2016 Ledger-Enquirer All-Bi-City boys and girls soccer teams look strikingly similar to 2015. Once again, it’s a combination of a strong season for the Pacelli boys and Columbus girls.
The great news for the Columbus metro area unemployment rate was its drop from 6.6 percent in March to 6 percent in April. That compares to 6.6 percent in April a year ago.
Early in 1911, a convicted murderer stepped down off a train in Hamilton and was greeted by a cheering crowd. A dozen years earlier, Edgar Stripling had been sentenced to life in prison for killing his brother-in-law for the “crime” of insulting Stripling’s wife. Shortly after the sentence, awaiting word on a motion for appeal in the Hamilton jail, he escaped and disappeared entirely from the public eye.
Youvensky Despeignes used to spend hours a day at home drawing pencil-and-ink abstractions on cheap notebook paper, his aspirations as a painter frustrated by a lack of opportunities in Haiti where a rich artistic heritage has suffered decades of decline.
Youvensky Despeignes used to spend hours a day at home drawing pencil-and-ink abstractions on cheap notebook paper, his aspirations as a painter frustrated by a lack of opportunities in Haiti where a rich artistic heritage has suffered decades of decline.
