Symmes Township, Ohio – Captain Tory Smith the District Three Commander assigned to Symmes Township told Loveland Magazine this morning, “I did have a conversation with our CIS personnel late in the day yesterday and they have indicated that there appears to be nothing suspicious at this time. There are/were no signs of foul play and there was no evidence to suggest that the person was struck by a vehicle. It is believed that the individual suffered from some sort of medical emergency.”
The Hamilton County Sherriff’s office investigated a body discovered in the landscaping at the CVS Pharmacy at East Kemper and Loveland Maderia Road around daylight yesterday morning.
The Hamilton County Criminal Investigative Section responded and the body was taken from the scene by the Hamilton County Coroner.
Loveland Magazine will not be releasing the name of the deceased.
David Miller is the Publisher and Editor in Chief of Loveland Magazine
by David Miller
We will almost certainly never surpass the 1.3 million readers we had in 2017 (combined on lovelandmagazine.com, Facebook, and Twitter) on the day and the day after the fire in the Historic District. And, we quite frankly never want to surpass that record unless it’s much better news. (Early morning fire destroys 2/3 block in Historic Downtown Loveland)
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The most-read story by a wide margin in 2019 involved the levy the school district put on the ballot. Actually, we only published a few stories that were informational, the Five Ws (Who, What, When, Where, Why) of the levy vote. We provided public documents, notices of public meetings, etc.
Interesting is what drove readership… we let our readers tell the story through Guest Columns and Letters to the Editor.
Letting our readers, and District staff tell the story in balanced thought-provoking columns proved that we had no need to publish “she said-he said” stories filtered through our eyes and we are extremely grateful to those who submitted columns and the reflective social media comments that followed. We published each and every opinion piece we received and only occasionally felt the need to delete some of the social media comments that were inappropriate.
Topping all of the levy stories was a Guest Column by Juliet Tissot, “We should not thumb our noses at the less fortunate just because we want nice stuff.” We did nothing special to promote Tissot’s column, however, are extremely proud of the Loveland community taking such interest in the subject she raised, because the plight of the “less fortunate” is rarely if ever discussed here in the Loveland area. I hope in 2020 this subject is revisited often inside the institutional framework of school board meetings, city buildings, and township halls.
LOVELAND MAGAZINE TV also produced several videos of school board meetings where the District and local residents discussed the levy which added to making the levy by far the most looked at topic of 2019.
