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Springfield base to renovate warehouse with $7.2M
The $7.2 million included in President Obama’s 2014 budget this week for the Springfield Air National Guard Base will be used to convert a warehouse into a facility to handle classified information, base commander Col. Gregory Schnulo confirmed. The Springfield News-Sun in January wrote about the 178th Fighter Wing’s plan ...
Dayton-born comedian Jonathan Winters dies
Jonathan Winters, the Dayton-born improvisational comic best known for unique sound effects, quirky characters and unpredictable comedy sketches, died Thursday at age 87. Winters died from natural causes at his home in Montecito, Calif., long-time family friend Joe Petro III said. The comedian’s son, Jay, and daughter, Lucinda, were with ...
Local church hits century mark
The Lutheran Church held little hope for Trinity Lutheran Church when it opened its doors in the southeast part of Springfield in 1913.For 14 of its first 16 years, the only pastors the church could get were theology students from Wittenberg University.When the Rev. Daniel Jacob Uhlman — a blind ...
Springfield legend Winters dies at 87
Jonathan Winters, the Springfield-raised comic genius who once told his wife he’d come back to Ohio and sell farm equipment if his comedy career in New York didn’t pan out, has died. Winters, 87, died Thursday evening of natural causes at his home in Montecito, Calif., long-time family friend Joe ...
Ohio in ‘strong position’ to win drone site
Companies wanting to develop unmanned aircraft systems are “sitting there waiting” for six areas of the country to get the OK to test-fly drones, the vice president of a Fortune 500 defense company told Ohio lawmakers Tuesday. But the state essentially doesn’t have a Plan B if it fails to ...
Holocaust survivor speaking at Witt
John Koenigsberg has addressed thousands of students in the 18 years since he decided to open up about surviving the Holocaust.It’s no easier to talk about now than it was then.“As many times as I’ve spoken, I still go over the notes and I still get quite emotional,” Koenigsberg confessed.The ...
Clint Black coming to Springfield
He’s famous for wearing a hat and bringing a traditional sound back to country music in the ’90s — and he’s coming to Springfield.No, it’s not Garth Brooks.Clint Black, that other ’90s star in a hat, will play Kuss Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. May 15, the Clark State Performing Arts ...
Local Silver Star winner is a survivor
He survived a cold year in Korea, then, at an age that made him older than even most of the officers, he went to Vietnam and survived that, too. Since then, he’s survived four different forms of cancer. Medway resident Miles Davis — maybe it’s the name that made him ...
Beloved local musician in need of help
The name Larry Humphrey is synonymous locally with good-time funk music.But, as of late, his life hasn’t been much of a P-Funk party.“I didn’t want to do this,” Humphrey explained, tears in his eyes. “I didn’t want to get emotional.”The colostomy bag concealed under his clothing is like an anchor, ...
VA speeds up millions in GI Bill payments
The 23,000 Ohio veterans enrolled in the Post-9/11 GI Bill are getting millions to cover the cost of higher education faster than ever, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs, thanks to a new paperless system. It’s a hint of things to come, according to the VA, for when the ...
Local teen selected to national youth orchestra
Mariko Shimasaki isn’t going to dissuade people from calling her and her older sister, Kanako, prodigies.“You can call us prodigies. It’s a nice compliment,” said Mariko, a senior at Kenton Ridge High School who’s been mastering the violin since age 5.“We’re not exactly prodigies,” she clarified. “We just learned to ...
300-plus Guardsmen face pay cuts
More than 300 full-time Ohio Air National Guard workers in Springfield could face 14 days of unpaid leave this year as part of federal government budget cuts.Lobbyists for the National Guard Association of the United States are scrambling to get an executive order exempting the Guard’s 57,795 military technicians nationwide ...
Vietnam vets being welcomed home at last
If anybody disagrees with the state’s decision to designate March 30 as Vietnam Veterans Day, or with a local group’s plans to hold a parade for those veterans this weekend, they should speak to Ray Haney.He came home to Springfield in 1970 from Vietnam and said he was made to ...
Retired astronaut coming to Urbana
After you’ve launched off an aircraft carrier more than 300 times and flown into space five times, it takes a lot to impress a man. But in October, retired Navy Capt. Robert “Hoot” Gibson will be inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton. “What a thrill,” he ...
Clark County ranks low in health report
A new report ranking the healthiness of nearly every county in the nation paints a bleak picture of life in Clark County. Overall, the county was ranked 72nd among Ohio’s 88 counties in the fourth annual County Health Rankings released this week by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the ...
Parade will honor Vietnam vets
When Fred Schuster tosses a ceremonial wreath into Buck Creek during the Vietnam Veterans Day of Remembrance next week, the nine silver coffins he faced in the hold of his C-141 more than 40 years ago won’t be far from his mind.The first local event of its kind, conceived by ...
Local two-star general dies
A two-star general from Springfield who served as chief of staff of the Ohio Air National Guard has died. Maj. Gen. Harry L. Cochran Jr. was 88.By the time of his retirement from the Guard in 1983, Cochran was believed to be the world’s last World War II fighter pilot ...
One dead, one hurt in crash
A two-vehicle crash Saturday afternoon claimed the life of one person and sent another to the hospital. The crash happened shortly before 4 p.m. at the intersection of West North Street and North Western Avenue. Police said they expected North Street to be closed throughout Saturday night. Springfield police arrived ...
Springfield native advised president during 9/11, start of Iraq War
Retired U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Deborah A. Loewer admittedly could talk for hours about where she was on 9/11 — and people would listen for hours. A Springfield native who retired from service in 2007 as the highest-ranking woman in naval history, Loewer gave a minute-by-minute account Saturday at the ...
Local company leading work on unmanned aircraft
An industry report this week predicted that unmanned aircraft systems will create more than 2,700 new Ohio jobs by 2025, but for one Springfield company, unmanned aircraft already make up 20 percent of the bottom line. “I had intended to get into it. I didn’t intend to get into it ...
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