Oakwood News

Save for the occasional fraternity-style chatter, Lori Sedlak has no qualms about being, at times, the only woman in Dayton Fire Station No.

Mayor Judy Cook will not be running for re-election. "I think the time is right to make room for a new voice and new leadership," Cook said Thursday, July 2. Cook, 76, of Schenck Avenue, has been the mayor for eight years and succeeded Gretchen Bullock.

Turnout was strong for the Bay Village Country Festival, a long-standing, traditional celebration in Cahoon Memorial Park.

Firefighters were working to contain a fire in the third floor of a 17,331-square-foot mansion on Friday, June 26.

Dana York, left, and Katie McCabe, a Five Rivers Metroparks volunteer, look for fish in a water hole during the Five Rivers Metroparks open house for the Hills and Dales Metropark.

Mark Fisher is the author of Uncorked and is the food and dining reporter for the Dayton Daily News .

At the May 7 meeting of Dayton's Woman's Literary Club, held at the Dayton Country Club in Oakwood, Centerville resident Celia Elliott, 86, became the fourth Writer Laureate in the club's 110-year history.

Senator Jon Husted, R-Kettering, will be meeting with several local school district superintendents and treasurers on Monday, June 22 to discuss Gov.

Pamela Cochran, property manager of Town & Country Shopping Center, 300 E. Stroop Road, has been chosen to be the 2009 Holiday at Home Grand Marshal, according to Bill Tschirhart, spokesman for Holiday at Home.

The Kettering-Moraine-Oakwood Chamber of Commerce will hold a ribbon-cutting at 1 p.m. today, June 8, for the new Cousin Vinny's Pizza restaurant at 1916 E. Whipp Road in south Kettering.

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.

Talk about pressure. Performing comedy before an audience is one thing. Try doing it for a grade.

Re "Electric calculators got their start in Dayton," May 11: The article about the dishwasher-sized calculator built with vacuum tubes being invented and produced by NCR was well done and most interesting.

The second annual Cask AleFest will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 30, at Chappys Tap Room & Grille, 2733 W. Alex-Bell Road.

Since mid-April, Grafton Hill resident Dwight Matlock and his son, Justin, have been in training for this year's Great Ohio Bike Adventure.

AIDS Resource Center Ohio will benefit from a weeklong series of special menus and exclusive promotions offered by 26 Dayton-area independently owned restaurants.

The city council tonight, May 26, voted unanimously to allow the city police department to apply for a $47, 249 grant from the Office of Justice Assistance.

May 21, 2009 ? Danny Jackson made his return to the ARCA Lincoln Welders Truck Series on Saturday, May 16.

The former Oakwood/Kettering Medicine Shoppe pharmacy has merged into Clark's Rx Pharmacy, a family-run operation with nine retail stores in the Dayton region.

About a week after gasoline prices jumped by an average of more than 20 cents per gallon, prices seem to be on the rise again on Monday, May 11.