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Former Loveland High School Women’s basketball star and current University of Cincinnati star Jillian Hayes and Aubrie Rasheed an Oregon State soccer player join together in their latest podcast, The Truth About NIL. The NCAA NIL rule allows college athletes to get paid.
Join us on our 1st episode “The Truth About NIL,” where we talk about the gender gap in the world of NIL.
Loveland, Ohio – In his weekly Superintendent’s Message, Mike Broadwater described the importance of a planned town hall meeting to discuss, “…our ongoing funding challenges”. He said, “The district is currently in deficit spending, which means that we are spending more money to pay for staff and services than the federal, state, and local tax revenue that is coming in. Our Five Year Forecast shows deficit spending for the current fiscal year of $3.7 million and projects a $3.8 million deficit in the following fiscal year.”
To that end, at the Board of Education meeting on December 10, it was decided that the District will hold a Town Hall Meeting on Thursday, January 5, at 6 PM in the Media Center at the Loveland Intermediate School.
“The purpose of this Town Hall is for district leaders to hear from our Loveland City Schools community about issues facing the school district, including the financial future of Loveland City Schools.”
Two members of the Board of Education and the Superintendent will attend.
If you cannot attend, you can watch the live stream by following this link. Only in-person attendees can participate with questions or comments. A recording of the meeting will be available to watch for those who are interested.
Loveland, Ohio – There are expanded access to teen driver training for low-income Ohio families through the new “Drive to Succeed” scholarship program.
Loveland area residents can urge their police departments, council members, or trustees to apply for a grant by forwarding this story to them. Whether you have a teen driver or not, all residents will benefit from safer teen drivers.
Administered by the Ohio Traffic Safety Office (OTSO) and available via grants to local governmental agencies, teens selected for a scholarship by grantee agencies would attend an eligible Ohio-approved driving school in their area at little to no cost.
Funding to establish these community-based scholarships will be awarded by OTSO to local agencies through a competitive grant process. Local government agencies, such as police departments, sheriffs’ offices, health departments, and others may apply for funding. The proposing agency must be in an area with a population of 5,000 or more.
“The importance of driver training cannot be overstated, especially for our young drivers,” said Ohio Governor Mike DeWine. “This new program aims to remove the financial barrier that may prevent some teens from enrolling in driver education.”
Data shows that young drivers under age 24 are involved in 31% of all crashes in Ohio. Youth-related fatal crashes have been steadily rising over the past three years with 296 fatalities in 2021 accounting for almost 24% of all fatal crashes.
For the first time in Ohio, recent research has shown that new drivers under age 18 who complete the mandatory driver education under Ohio’s Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) restrictions were less likely to crash than drivers licensed at age 18 who are exempt from these requirements. Ohio is one of only 15 states with comprehensive licensing requirements that include behind-the-wheel training at a licensed driving school, in addition to classroom or online instruction, parent-supervised practice driving, and learner permit holding periods.
Agencies that wish to receive a grant must submit their proposals before Jan. 21, 2023. The complete grant proposal and guidelines can be found online at Grants/Federal Programs | Ohio Traffic Safety Office.
Loveland, Ohio – The Loveland Valentine Ladies invite you to join them to kick off the 2023 Valentine Program on Saturday, January 7, at 11 AM at Sweetheart Alley on the Loveland Bike Trail.
You will meet the 2023 Valentine Lady, Donna Barnes.
In addition, the 2023 Valentine card will be unveiled and available for purchase at $2.00 each or 3 cards for $5.00.
Also, mark your calendars for the annual Valentine breakfast on February 10 at 8:30 AM. More details about the breakfast will be announced at a later date.
The Little Miami River Chamber Alliance is also hosting a Valentine coloring program for young artists, with a submission deadline of January 20, 2023.
Download the Coloring Contest Form (PDF)
Additionally, the Valentine Poetry Contest is open to a variety of age groups and there will be a poetry workshop on January 7 at 9 AM at the Hometown Cafe, led by Dr. Kathy Lorenz, the Valentine Lady of 2019. Poetry submissions are due by January 20, 2023.
Download the Poetry Contest Entry Form
Come on down to Loveland, Ohio,
Where love is in the air.
Join in the fun and make some memories,
In this charming town so dear.
At Sweetheart Alley on the bike trail,
The 2023 Valentine card will be revealed.
Purchase one for two bucks or three for five,
And show your love for someone so your heart isn't concealed.
Meet the Valentine Lady, Donna Barnes,
And mark your calendars for the annual breakfast.
Details to come, so stay tuned,
For this event that's sure to be festooned.
The Little Miami River Chamber Alliance,
Is hosting a coloring program for young artists.
With a deadline of January 20,
This is a chance to create something most badest.
And don't forget the poetry contest,
Open to all ages and skill level.
A workshop on January 7, led by Dr. Lorenz,
Will help you craft it perfect and special.
So come on down to Loveland, Ohio,
Where love is in the air.
Join in the fun and make some memories,
At the 2023 Valentine Program fair.
- AI generated by David Miller
Loveland, Ohio – At a meeting of the Loveland City School District held on December 10, both the current President of the Board, Kathryn Lorenz, and current Vice-President, Kevin Dougherty announced that it is their intention to not seek another term by running for re-election in the fall of 2023.
Here is the excerpt from the meeting where they announce their intentions:
You can watch the full Board meeting below.
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Loveland, Ohio – Eight games into the season the Tiger Men (2-3, 5-3) stand in 5th place in the Eastern Cincinnati Conference (ECC). Leading the Tigers in scoring is 11th grader Brayden Frietch averaging 11.5 points per game. Close behind is 11th grader Jack Sauer averaging 11.4. Both Frietch and Sauer have scored 12 three-pointers.
The Women are 3-3, 5-3, and Leading the Women are Senior forward Olivia Raby averaging 10.6, and Senior guard Josie Early averaging 10. The Women are in 7th place in the ECC.
| Standings | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CONFERENCE | OVERALL | ||||||||
| TEAMS | W-L | PCT | PF | PA | W-L | PCT | PF | PA | STRK |
| Anderson | 5 – 0 | 1.000 | 69.0 | 47.4 | 6 – 0 | 1.000 | 67.2 | 46.5 | W6 |
| Kings | 5 – 0 | 1.000 | 66.2 | 47.6 | 6 – 0 | 1.000 | 68.5 | 47.8 | W6 |
| Turpin | 4 – 1 | .800 | 58.0 | 48.4 | 5 – 1 | .833 | 57.7 | 48.5 | W1 |
| Winton Woods | 3 – 2 | .600 | 57.4 | 55.6 | 4 – 2 | .667 | 58.7 | 56.3 | W3 |
| Loveland | 2 – 3 | .400 | 47.8 | 48.0 | 5 – 3 | .625 | 50.3 | 46.6 | W2 |
| Lebanon | 2 – 3 | .400 | 50.4 | 56.6 | 2 – 4 | .333 | 49.3 | 54.8 | L1 |
| Walnut Hills | 2 – 3 | .400 | 55.2 | 61.4 | 2 – 5 | .286 | 53.1 | 61.1 | L1 |
| Little Miami | 1 – 4 | .200 | 47.0 | 56.8 | 3 – 4 | .429 | 46.9 | 52.0 | L3 |
| Milford | 1 – 4 | .200 | 54.8 | 61.4 | 2 – 4 | .333 | 57.7 | 61.7 | L4 |
| West Clermont | 0 – 5 | .000 | 41.2 | 63.8 | 0 – 5 | .000 | 41.2 | 63.8 | L5 |
| Standings | WOMEN | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CONFERENCE | OVERALL | ||||||||
| TEAMS | W-L | PCT | PF | PA | W-L | PCT | PF | PA | STRK |
| West Clermont | 5 – 0 | 1.000 | 53.2 | 36.0 | 7 – 0 | 1.000 | 55.7 | 37.7 | W7 |
| Lebanon | 4 – 2 | .667 | 50.0 | 46.0 | 8 – 2 | .800 | 54.9 | 42.5 | W4 |
| Walnut Hills | 4 – 2 | .667 | 50.3 | 44.3 | 7 – 2 | .778 | 54.7 | 36.7 | W1 |
| Kings | 4 – 2 | .667 | 46.8 | 47.8 | 5 – 2 | .714 | 47.1 | 44.6 | W3 |
| Winton Woods | 4 – 2 | .667 | 46.5 | 36.3 | 4 – 2 | .667 | 46.5 | 36.3 | L1 |
| Milford | 3 – 3 | .500 | 51.7 | 49.0 | 6 – 3 | .667 | 53.1 | 44.9 | L1 |
| Loveland | 3 – 3 | .500 | 47.7 | 47.5 | 5 – 3 | .625 | 48.4 | 38.8 | L2 |
| Little Miami | 1 – 4 | .200 | 37.8 | 48.0 | 1 – 6 | .143 | 42.0 | 50.0 | L1 |
| Turpin | 1 – 5 | .167 | 36.7 | 48.8 | 3 – 6 | .333 | 36.8 | 45.9 | L2 |
| Anderson | 0 – 6 | .000 | 38.3 | 54.0 | 1 – 9 | .100 | 39.0 | 50.8 | L9 |
Loveland, Ohio – The City of Loveland Recreation Board is now accepting nominations for the Stan McCoy Sr. Community Service Volunteer Award.
“This award seeks to recognize a person who has worked to sustain and improve the community and been active for at least three years in recreation, park, or environmental activities that benefit the City of Loveland and/or its residents.”
Read about Stanley Leroy McCoy, Sr. below.
McCoy Park was named after Stan McCoy Sr. and is a neighborhood park located in the southeastern portion of the city at 471 Oak Street. It features two baseball fields, four soccer fields, one basketball court, and two tennis courts. Its tennis courts also double as pickleball courts. There is a playground and picnic shelter, as well as a restroom facility.
The Loveland Recreation Board will make the final selection.
The award presentation will take place at a City of Loveland Council Meeting or another appropriate event. A plaque will be presented to the recipient and their name will also be engraved on a plaque that will remain at City Hall.
Nominations are due by January 31, 2023. Download nomination form.
E-Mail Completed Form to: Misty Clark at mclark@lovelandoh.gov or mail to the City of Loveland, ATTN: Misty Clark at 120 West Loveland Avenue, Loveland, Ohio 45140.
Dayton, Ohio – Congratulations to Loveland FLL team 52346 Roaring Robots who competed at the Regional Qualifier at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force today in Dayton. They won the First Place Robot Performance Award and the Champions Award, the top award of the event.
They will advance to the District tournament at Loveland Intermediate School on January 14.
“Thanks to all the volunteers and coaches who make this program and event possible!”
Loveland, Ohio – Thursday was a very special day at Loveland Early Childhood Center, as staff and students wished “Happy Retirement” to secretary DeAnn Gilmore after 23 and a half years!
Their message on the Loveland City Schools FaceBook page was, “Thank you for being a friendly, smiling face for generations of our youngest Tigers!”
All photos by Loveland City Schools:
BY: SUSAN TEBBEN – Ohio Capital Journal
The Ohio House did not agree to Senate amendments to a bill banning trans athletes from participating in youth sports based on their gender identity, leaving behind more than a thousand pages of state education overhauls loaded in at the last minute.
House Bill 151, with language from Senate Bill 178 attached to it was voted down in the House by a 46-41 vote after 2 a.m. on Thursday morning following an entire day of hemming and hawing.
The education overhaul is not completely done yet. Even if lawmakers decline to move forward in the current General Assembly, Senate President Matt Huffman previously pledged to bring the bill back in the new year, with a General Assembly that will have an even larger GOP supermajority.
The education overhaul part of the bill, which entered the House as a standalone this week after passing the Senate last week, would have restructured the Ohio Department of Education into the Department of Education and Workforce, and reduced the state Board of Education roles down to superintendent searches, teacher conduct and licensure issues.
“The system is not working, it doesn’t prioritize our students,” said bill sponsor state Rep. Don Jones, R-Freeport.
The department, and most of the roles currently under the state board of ed and state superintendent’s purview would have been put under the governor’s office umbrella, according to the bill.
The State Board of Education put off hiring a search firm for the next superintendent due to concerns about budgetary changes SB 178 might bring and fears the legislative uncertainty might “pollute” the marketplace of candidates.
The bill also received pushback from public school education advocates and some homeschooling groups. The Ohio Education Association and the Ohio Federation of Teachers both spoke against the bill in committee hearings, not only decrying claims that the ODE was unresponsive and inaccessible, but also criticizing the pace at which the bill came through the General Assembly.
SB 178 sponsor state Sen. Bill Reineke, R-Tiffin, said attempts to redo the state agencies have been years in the making and urgency is needed to help improve student success.
“I’m not looking at growing an organization; I’m looking at making it more efficient and more structurally purposeful,” Reineke said on Tuesday as he defended his bill in House Primary and Secondary Education Committee.
It was up to that committee to pass the standalone bill over to the House for a full vote, something that didn’t happen in a Tuesday night committee that went until about 9 p.m., or a Wednesday morning meeting that recessed before the House’s session began, and didn’t return even after multiple recesses in that body.
When committee chair state Rep. Gayle Manning, R-North Ridgeville, was asked the status of the bill or the committee at about 9 p.m. Wednesday night, she said she was waiting to see what the GOP caucus was thinking on the matter.
Amidst the day-long discussion, the Senate decided to take matters into its own hands, inserting SB 178 into HB 151, originally meant to be a teacher mentorship bill that was made to include a ban on athletes competing on teams based on their gender identity.
The Senate also tried to slide in language from a bill that would have banned COVID-19 vaccine mandates for K-12 students.
After the additions, HB 151 passed on a party-line 23-7 vote in that chamber, moving it back to the House.
The controversial part of HB 151 was added in another late-night move in June, when HB 151 was up for passage in the House before moving on to the Senate. The trans athletes part of the bill no longer includes a requirement for genital inspections of children suspected of being transgender, something Senate President Matt Huffman previously said he wouldn’t support.
Verification of a student’s gender will be done using a birth certificate in the new version of the bill.
The bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Don Jones, R-Freeport, wouldn’t speak on the trans athletes part of the bill when he introduced the bill in the Senate, but on the House floor he stood in support of it.
“This bill only applies to K-12 education, so our daughters in grades kindergarten through 12 will not have to compete with biological males in primary and secondary schools,” Jones said.
The bill would impact very few Ohio students and policies are already in place to keep equality in youth sports, causing LGBTQ advocates, education leaders and the Ohio High School Athletic Association to stand against the bill as unnecessary.
The original language of the bill would make changes to the Ohio Teacher Residency Program and teacher mentorship.
Democrats pushed hard for the House not to support the bill as amended, saying stakeholders needed to be involved and more time was needed to find out the impact of it.
State Rep. Phil Robinson, D-Solon, continued an argument made by critics of the bill that the volume of the bill didn’t get the proper review by legislators or individuals in Ohio education.
“Passing something at 1 o’clock or 2 o’clock in the morning that no one’s read and no one’s seen … is not the way to change education in the state of Ohio,” Robinson said.
State Rep. Jeff Crossman, D-Parma, said the bill was “moving deck chairs on a sinking ship” by addressing issues that don’t solve the true problems in Ohio education.
State Rep. Juanita Brent, D-Cleveland, said the bill would impact economic success in Ohio by making conferences question coming to the state and businesses wonder whether or not to bring employees to the state. She also said passage of the bill in the middle of the night would send a message to current Ohio voters as well.
“We’re telling Ohioans who elected us that they can’t be seen in this process,” Brent said.