The Madison-Press

Madison County athletes earn All-Ohio honors

By Chris Miles Sports Editor   It was a good spring for a couple of Madison County high school baseball and softball teams and key players off of those squads earned All-Ohio recognition this season. The Jonathan Alder baseball team posted a 27-9 record, advanced all the way to the Division II state championship game before [...]

AWOS coming to county airport

By Dean Shipley Staff Writer   AWOS is coming to the Madison County airport. Automated Weather Observation System, AWOS for short, is a benefit to any airport, said Bill Laney, board member of the Madison County Airport, in his report on Monday to the Madison County commissioners. Due to the airport traffic and helicopter activity [...]

Sawyer remembered as artistic, generous

By Dean Shipley Staff Writer   A woman described as generous and giving to the London community has passed away. Ruth Dennis Sawyer, 81, died Thursday, May 30 in Cincinnati. She lived a spirited life of which much of it was spent giving to the Madison County community. Much of her life, 60 years, were [...]

Should the state of Ohio raise the speed limit to 70 m.p.h. on I-71 and I-70 through Madison County?

Brand out as sanitary engineer

By Dean Shipley Staff Writer   The board of county commissioners has let go Dave Brand as county sanitary engineer. Its decision was reached following an executive session on Tuesday, May 28. Their decision was released to The Press Thursday. The county sanitary engineer position has been held by the county engineer for some years. [...]

Organizers say food drive was a success

By Dean Shipley Staff Writer   Madison County residents delivered for the post office. An increased number of Madison County residents delivered non-perishable food items to their mailboxes and to the post office during the Help Stamp Out Hunger drive by the letter carriers. “It was more than the last couple of years,” said Terry [...]

Chase ends in Madison County

A police chase along U.S. Route 40, which started in Franklin County, ended in Madison County when the driver lost control of his pick-up truck at approximately 3 p.m. Tuesday in Summerford. According to NBC4, police responded to a call of an accident at Roberts and Walcutt roads near Hilliard. The driver, James Shannon III, [...]

Beck’s Seed moves to Madison County

By LANCE CRANMER Civitas Media   ATLANTA, Ind. — The imaginary line that separates the states of Indiana and Ohio makes a difference in whether a person identifies themselves as a Hoosier or a Buckeye. As far as the soil itself is concerned, there’s not that much of a difference. That’s why a seed producing [...]

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