Williamsburg News

Replacing the playground surface at Williamsburg Elementary School is for the children's safety, its principal says.

Mercy Hospital Clermont in Batavia recognized volunteers and awarded three scholarships at its annual awards luncheon last month.

Clermont County Commission President Ed Humphrey was one of the many officials and dignitaries who spoke at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the first phase of the Williamsburg to Batavia Hike-Bike Trail June 19.

The Blade will periodically feature intriguing homes and gardens that reflect the creativity of their owners.

WILLIAMSBURG - AirCare flew a man with a serious head injury to University Hospital overnight after he fell 30 to 50 feet off a train trestle, according to Clermont County emergency communication reports.

AirCare was called to fly a man to the hospital who fell from a train trestle late Tuesday night.

Jun 22, 2009 5:12 pm US/Eastern Reporting Pablo Guzman 1 of 1 Yaakov Frankel, 10, suffered serious burns to his eyes after someone threw a Drano-bomb at him while playing in a courtyard in Williamsburg.

People can now hike and bike on a trail from Williamsburg to Batavia. The first two-and-a-half mile phase of the trail opened Friday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

To Dee Horne, nothing says Williamsburg quite like Jayhawker Days. "It brings people in town together, and brings families back who used to live here and kids who used to go to school here," Horne, 54, said.

UNION - As officials investigate how Warren and Madge Moore died, friends of the couple want people to remember how they lived.

There's new information on the storm damage and an impending birth in Clermont County last night.

Martha Gacek can't leave her home on Bucktown Road in Williamsburg. "There's trees blocking down there and there's power lines down there," Gacek said.

Two fisherman may have reeled in the largest blue catfish ever caught in the state of Ohio.

* Anecdote: Smith, like a doting mom, struggled to keep the males who were graduating still while she pinned flowers on their graduation gowns.

With the recent sightings of workers unloading materials at Williamsburg's infamous Finger Building, the Brooklyn Paper checks in with the stalled shell at 144 N. 8th Street, dubbed The Albaro by its new owners.

Four years ago the original Finger Building stormed onto the scene, and in the time since, the building has seen more stops and starts than a Williamsburg band's first rehearsal.

FLORENCE - Deborah Lynn Piper Russell, 44, of Bethel, Ohio, formerly of Florence, died Monday, May 25, at her home.

The Clermont County coroner was called to the scene near Williamsburg Monday after two people were found dead at a home on Happy Hollow Road.

We know we've been at this game a bit too long when a tipster sends along a listing with the added commentary, "that's rather hideous - dungeon loft edition ," and our initial reaction is yeesh , another one ? So it goes.

A sailor just back from deployment in Iraq and her husband are dead after an apparent murder-suicide. Investigators said that Kurt Russell, 41, and Debbie Russell, 44, were found shot to death Monday afternoon in their home at 3830 Happy Hollow Road.