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Andrew McGinn covers the military, veterans issues and community nonprofits for the Springfield News-Sun. A News-Sun staff writer since 1999, McGinn has received numerous Associated Press awards for his writing. He’s a graduate of Morningside College in Iowa.
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Free benefits help on the way for local vets
Local veterans who have questions about their benefits will be able to get answers next week when the Disabled American Veterans’ mobile service office rolls into town.The DAV vehicle carrying national service officers will make its first stop in Springfield from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday at DAV Chapter ...
Local student sets sights on West Point
At Northeastern High School, incoming senior Rachel Parker carries a 4.0 grade-point average and cried the first time she took the ACT and scored a 28.The local student who is captain in two sports and who lettered in three, plus played the lead in the spring musical and was named ...
Festival aims to shine light on local fathers
In an area where four out of 10 fathers are deemed absent, Urban Light Ministries and the Be About It Movement are aiming to show appreciation to those fathers who are present in the lives of their families and children.On Friday and Saturday, Urban Light and Be About It will ...
Springfield to get drone HQ
An office on Springfield’s eastern edge will serve as the base of operations for Ohio and Indiana’s joint effort to become a test site for unmanned aerial systems, an industry that’s predicted to create thousands of new jobs.The Ohio/Indiana Unmanned Aerial Systems Center and Test Complex will be housed in ...
Selling, lying about medals angers vets
Ron Coss doesn’t hold back when it comes to people who lie about receiving a military decoration they didn’t earn.“It is the lowest of the low,” the Vietnam veteran from Springfield said Friday. “They’re snakes.”Now, according to a new version of the Stolen Valor Act signed into law this week, ...
Vince Gill coming to Springfield
One of the most respected and talented country musicians of the past 25 years is coming to Springfield in September.It doesn’t hurt that Vince Gill is pretty popular, too.Gill, who’s sold more than 26 million albums and is already a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, will play ...
More Ohio soldiers deploy to Middle East
Sgt. Matthew Kaufman volunteered to deploy to Kuwait, even with his first child on the way. Already a veteran of the Iraq War as a scout sniper, the Lebanon resident had heard he might deploy next to Afghanistan — but with his son due in September, Kuwait sounded like the ...
355 Springfield Guardsmen face furloughs
About 355 full-time members of the Ohio National Guard in Springfield will be furloughed for 11 days beginning July 8, and will be among the only people wearing military uniforms ordered to take unpaid leave as part of federal budget cuts. Nationally, the 53,000 uniformed technicians within the Guard who ...
Former Springfield curator lands new job
A month after four trustees quit the Springfield Museum of Art board to protest the firing of curator Charlotte Gordon, she has a new job.Gordon has been hired as artistic director of the Southern Ohio Museum in Portsmouth.It’s a move that also will bring her husband, Mark Chepp, out of ...
Clark eaglets OK after nest falls
The bald eagle nest that has led carloads of people down a little-traveled rural Clark County road this spring came crashing down Friday during a storm. But, the story doesn’t end there. In fact, it’s on track to have a happy ending. The two eaglets in the nest not only ...
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