Payne News

Gere Goble's weekend column is often a homespun series of neat tales about raising a child and keeping a home and a marriage alive and well.

Julie Payne has a brand new home to call her own thanks to Habitat for Humanity of Monroe and construction technology students at Monroe High School.

Ranking presidents is almost as popular a diversion as ranking movies or ranking novels, but at the bottom of almost everyone's list sits Ohio's Warren G. Harding, the subject of Phillip G. Payne's book Dead Last: The Public Memory of Warren G. Harding's Scandalous Legacy .

Oxford's Drug and Alcohol Enforcement Unit was busy over the weekend, seizing two pounds of marijuana, approximately $6,000 in cash and several dozen pieces of drug paraphernalia during a series of drug busts.

They made science fun and easy. LOU REDA /REFLECTOR Monroeville Public Schools Superintendent David Stubblebine receives a check Wednesday afternoon from John Payne, chairman of FTMC Board of Directors.

Mary Jane Kinnaley, 88, Payne, Ohio, formerly of Brazil, passed away Friday, Jan.

Rescuers rush to save a worker hanging from a northwest Ohio tower. Rescuers rush to save a worker hanging from a northwest Ohio tower.

The Lima News, Ohio Middle Jan. 9--PAYNE -- The rescue call Dave Krouse received Tuesday afternoon was unlike any he'd taken before.

Damage from frozen sprinkler pipes that burst in the Fidelity Building at 211 S. Main St.

PAYNE, Ohio - Firefighters in far northwestern Ohio rescued a worker whose rigging broke while he was on a water tower, leaving him dangling 100 feet in the air.

Payne, OH - A man doing maintenance on a water tower in Payne, Ohio has been rescued after his safety harness broke early Tuesday afternoon, leaving him dangling in the air for more than an hour.

The man was doing subcontracting work for Comcast. After the safety harness broke, another safety line kept him from falling to the ground.

It's not the most hard-core jam session, but it might be the cutest. On a Tuesday afternoon at Payne Elementary School in Southeast Washington, hip-hop literacy class starts in the auditorium after school. About 30 students stand in a circle while a tall, dreadlocked instructor, Khalif 'MC K-Juice' Bobatoon, leads them in a chant:

Give me the spotlight/Give me the hot seat/I'm gonna show you the power inside me/You can't hold me/You can't stop me/Cuz I was born to succeed/Cuz I was born to succeed.

The winter weather this morning is not just causing problems for area motorists.

Christel Koppert, a math teacher for Lucas Local Schools, showed members of the business community Thursday night how her eighth-, ninth- and 10th-grade students use the Classroom Performance System.