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  • LIFE Food Pantry is moving and asks for your kind help

    LIFE Food Pantry is moving and asks for your kind help

    Loveland, Ohio –

    The Life Food Pantry has this ask:

    If you haven’t heard the good news, the LIFE Food Pantry is moving to a larger space within the Shoppers Haven shopping center!

    We are excited about our move later this summer, but

    need your help to make our new space the best it can be for our clients.

    We have an Amazon wish list marked Capital Campaign of things we need for the move. Here is the link: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2URR289L4R8LR…

    We also have a LIFESaver wish list to help stock our shelves which can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/CYA7J7IVXEY0?

    You may have your purchase shipped directly to us, send to your address and deliver it to LIFE yourself, or donate funds and we can make the purchase for you. Whatever works best for you!

    Please consider picking up a few items to help LIFE and your neighbors experiencing hardship. Thank you for your support!

    Lean more about L.I.F.E,’s new location…

  • 2024 Little Miami River Chamber Alliance business and community directory is out

    2024 Little Miami River Chamber Alliance business and community directory is out

    Loveland, Ohio – Announcing the arrival of the 2024 Little Miami River Chamber Alliance business and community directory, with the latest updates of Loveland, Symmes, and Miami Townships!

    Need extra copies for your office? Reach out to to the Chamber and they will ensure you’re stocked with this great guide to our community.

    Little Miami River Chamber Alliance

    514 W. Loveland Ave, Loveland, OH 45140

    View the Directory

     

  • Fish for FREE across Ohio June 15-16

    Fish for FREE across Ohio June 15-16

    Photo by ODNR

    Ohio’s annual free fishing days on Saturday, June 15, and Sunday, June 16, give all residents a chance to fish at any public waterway without a license, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. This includes Lake Erie, the Ohio River, and Ohio’s public lakes, reservoirs, streams, and rivers.

    June 15 and 16 will be the only weekend of the year on which residents 16 years old and older can fish public waters for free without purchasing a fishing license. Anglers under 16 can fish for free year-round and are not required to hold a license. All other fishing regulations, size requirements, and bag limits apply.

    Outside of the free fishing days on June 15 and16, all anglers 16 years old and older are required to have a valid fishing license to take fish, frogs, and turtles. Licenses can be purchased at participating agents, at wildohio.gov, or on the HuntFish OH mobile application. A one-year resident fishing license is $25.

    Here are the 2024-25 Fishing Regulations.

  • Brian Damewood Named Loveland High School Tigers Head Football Coach

    Brian Damewood Named Loveland High School Tigers Head Football Coach

    Photo by Loveland Athletics

    EDITOR”S NOTE: This article has been corrected to reflect that the first varsity game is 8/23 @ Harrison with and the first home game on 8/30 vs Lebanon, 7P at Tiger Stadium.

    by Chris Ball

    Loveland, Ohio – The search for Loveland’s next head football coach was refreshingly short, and they have absolutely found the right man for the job. On June 7 Athletic Director Jayson Bruce announced that Brian Damewood would be promoted and would be the man to lead the program to the promised land in 2024 and beyond.

    After the departure of Andy Cruse, who took a job with the Miami Redhawks to assume the role of tight ends coach.

    The Loveland Athletic Department  was keen to find his replacement and they quickly named Damewood as the interim head coach. It was only a matter of time, though, before they removed the “interim” tag and made the promotion official. Coach Damewood has many years of experience coaching defensive backs and special teams for the Tigers and is an excellent choice to helm the program in the future. Continuity is important at every level of football but especially in the high school game. The many years of experience that Coach Damewood has living and breathing Loveland’s brand of football means that the team likely won’t miss a beat with him leading them this year.

    Loveland finished with a 5-7 record last year, good for 6th in the Eastern Cincinnati Conference, though they look ready to improve on that mark next year. The Tigers open the 2024 season with their first varsity game on 8/23 at Harrison and the first home game on 8/30 vs Lebanon at Tiger Stadium with Coach Damewood at the helm and the entire city will no doubt be behind him.

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    Hey readers… have an opinion about sports? How about a topic you’d like to see written about in Loveland Magazine or a thought about one of our articles?

    Just need to vent and get out your frustration about the Reds, Bengals, or any other sports issues?

    Feel free to share with an email to LovelandSportsGuy@gmail.com!

    Christopher Ball is a longtime Loveland resident and an attorney. He graduated from Loveland High School in 2003 and was a member of the football team before going on to become a coach’s assistant at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. He has been following and rooting for the Reds and Bengals since the early 1990s and has been through the many ups and downs that fandom has wrought over the years.

     

  • Secretary of State Frank LaRose could purge more than 150,000 Ohio inactive voters before election

    Secretary of State Frank LaRose could purge more than 150,000 Ohio inactive voters before election

    Photo of a voting booth by WEWS.

    BY:  – Ohio Capital Journal

    More than 150,000 Ohio voters could potentially not be eligible to vote in the upcoming Presidential election.

    Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose recently published a list of 158,857 inactive voter registrations who are eligible to be removed from the Statewide Voter Registration Database — meaning they would be purged from voter rolls.

    “These registrations are eligible for removal under the law because records show they’re no longer residing or active at the registered address for at least the last four consecutive years,” LaRose said in a statement.

    Why are voters inactive?

    A registered voter could be on the list if they filled out a change-of-address form with the U.S. Postal Service signaling they have moved or they have not voted at their registered address in the past four years after being marked for removal by a county’s voter registration system.

    All 88 county boards of elections were required to collect and submit this data to LaRose’s office earlier this year. The voter purge is part of Ohio’s process of updating its rolls and removing voters who have moved out-of-state or died.

    County boards of elections must complete their voter purge by July 22, so people on the inactive voter list have until then to take action.

    What can inactive voters do to get off the list?

    In order to not be removed from the rolls and still be able to vote in the November election, an inactive voter can —

    • Confirm or update their voter registration at VoteOhio.gov, by mail or in-person at their local county board of elections.
    • Update or confirm their address with their county board of elections.
    • Submit an absentee ballot application.
    • Sign a candidate or issue petition that is verified by a board of elections.

    The deadline to register to vote in the Nov. 5 election is Oct. 7.

    A voter whose registration has been purged can regain their ability to vote by reregistering on the Secretary’s registration website or by visiting their county board of elections.

    Follow OCJ Reporter Megan Henry on X.

    Megan Henry
    MEGAN HENRY

    Megan Henry is a reporter for the Ohio Capital Journal and has spent the past five years reporting in Ohio on various topics including education, healthcare, business and crime. She previously worked at The Columbus Dispatch, part of the USA Today Network.

    Ohio Capital Journal is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.

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  • [WATCH NOW] “Forever Chemicals” in Loveland drinking water public meeting

    [WATCH NOW] “Forever Chemicals” in Loveland drinking water public meeting

    Loveland, Ohio – If you are drinking Loveland water, you will want to watch this re-cast of this info session. Local residents and the Sierra Club shared information on these topics:

    • Is the Kathy Bailey Administration telling Loveland residents the truth?
    • History of PFAS in Loveland’s drinking water.
    • General History of PFAS.
    • New USEPA regulations for PFAS.
    • Negative health outcomes resulting from PFAS.
    • How to protect your family.

    Hazardous chemicals, known collectively as “forever chemicals” or PFAS (per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances), were created in the mid-20th century by chemical companies and were used in multiple industries.

    Forever Chemicals are in Loveland’s drinking water at the highest tested levels in the Cincinnati region. Drinking water contaminated with Forever Chemicals has been causing negative health outcomes for consumers for decades, yet the Kathy Bailey Administration maintains that Loveland’s tap water is “safe”.

    There are no credible sources saying drinking water that contains Forever Chemicals is safe for human consumption. Scientists came to this emphatic determination decades ago.

    This presentation is shown in it’s entirety except portions where there is significant delays while the Sierra Club attempted to connect to their on-line, live feed or other Sierra Club technology issues.

    Here is the link to the Environmental Working Group that is mentioned several times as a resource for buying home water filtration systems.

    Loveland Magazine PFAS Files

  • 2024 Loveland Emergency Services Scholarship presented to Katherine Watson

    2024 Loveland Emergency Services Scholarship presented to Katherine Watson

    Loveland, Ohio – The Loveland Police Department (LPD) and the Loveland Citizens Police Academy  Association (LCPAAA) have awarded the 2024 Emergency Services Scholarship, a $1000 scholarship which is awarded to one qualified applicant yearly who will be pursuing Ohio Peace Officer certification training, or a Bachelor’s degree in criminal justice or a related field.

    The scholarship committee reviews all applicants’ transcripts, essays, letters of recommendation, and a video introduction to get to know them in areas such as good citizenship, community service, volunteerism, and academic activities, as well as their future educational plans.

    The committee said that they was very pleased with one candidate who stood out this year. She is a 2023 graduate of Loveland High School, and she is pursuing her bachelor’s degree in Sociology Pre-Law at Ohio University, where she has just finished her first year of studies.

    The 2024 Emergency Services Scholarship has been presented to Katherine Watson.The Alumni Association said, “Congratulations Katherine and best wishes for a successful academic career and beyond.”

    For more information about the yearly Emergency Services Scholarship, inquire at lovelandcpaaa@gmail.com or follow the LCPAAA Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/LovelandCPAAA. Updated information is sent out in the Fall each year.

  • Man arrested after missing Loveland woman Brittany Moran found dead

    Man arrested after missing Loveland woman Brittany Moran found dead

    Loveland, Ohio – Numerous Cincinnati news outlets are reporting that the body of Brittany Moran was located and a man has been arrested in connection to her disappearance and death.

    Here is the Fox 19 report:

    Man arrested after missing Loveland woman found dead, police say

  • Watch and Listen to Loveland’s Memorial Day Ceremony and Parade

    Watch and Listen to Loveland’s Memorial Day Ceremony and Parade

    by Andrew Sichak and David Miller,

    Loveland, Ohio – The City of Loveland’s Memorial Day Parade and Ceremony was on Monday, May 27. The event started with a parade an ended with a ceremony at the Loveland Veterans’ Memorial in the West Loveland Historic District.

    The ceremony featured a speech by Colonel J Scott Calder, a Loveland High School grad with a long career in the US Air Force Medical Services.

    The things Col. Calder highlighted were:

    • Not all combat injuries are readily apparent.

    • Tales of his most rewarding military experiences.

    • During his 2009 tour his unit cared for over 300 combat casualties a month.

    • He honored the incredible strength of Gold Star and military families that have endured an unimaginable sacrifice and loss.

    • When the injured he cared for were first able to speak, the first thing they asked was not about themselves, but of their friends. “Did anyone else get hurt?” Too often, he had to be the first one to tell the wounded soldier that their friend had died.

    • Over 80% of the deaths are non-battlefield deaths.

    • How to talk with the many current and former veterans that never openly speak about the pain and struggles that haunt them. Their injuries extend far beyond the battlefield. You must do the hard thing beyond just asking, “How are you? Persist! Your efforts will not be wasted and you may send them on a path to healing.

    • We owe a special debt to the Gold Star Families. Thank the families who gave so much.

    The photos in this slide show were taken by Intern Andrew Sichak and Loveland Magazine Managing Editor David Miller. Andrew produced this video.

    Intern, photographer, and video editor Andrew Sichak is a Junior at Loveland High School

     

     

     

     

  • Veterans Resource Event

    Veterans Resource Event

    Loveland, Ohio – Democracy In Action (DIA), a local Democrat Club, is hosting a first of what they hope will be annual Veterans Resource Event, Saturday, June 15 from Noon until 4 PM.​ The event brings together several local and regional organizations and businesses that provide support to Veterans and their families from job placement to physical health, addiction recovery to emotional well-being, and education to homeownership.

    The event is free and open to all Veterans and their families regardless of where they reside and will be held on the Loveland Primary School lawn at 550 Loveland-Madeira Road.

    “Folks ask why DIA is hosting this event, and the answer is simple: this is our community, our friends, families, neighbors, and in some cases, this is us,” said Jane Gonzales, DIA President, and Loveland resident. “We believe that our role as a community club is to actively support the diverse members of the Greater Loveland area regardless of political leaning.”

    The Veterans Resource Event will have information and representation from the following:

    • University of Cincinnati—Office of Veterans Programs & Services
    • Clermont County Veterans Service Commission
    • Hamilton County Veterans Service Commission
    • Cincinnati-Hamilton County Public Library  (Loveland Branch)
    • Ohio Department of Jobs & Family Services
    • Joseph’s House
    • FCM Loans
    • Team Red, White & Blue
    • Erin Harper, Comey Shepherd
    • West Chester Dog Training—TADSAW (Train a Dog, Save a Warrior)
    • Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Chapter 120 Camp Dennison
    • Cincinnati Veterans Center
    • Cincinnati VA Hospital
    • Greater Cincinnati Women’s American Legion Post 644​

    More participants are being added weekly according to the organizers.

    “The idea sprang from a DIA member’s knowledge of the Stand Down program, begun in 1988 by two Vietnam Veterans to provide support specifically to Veterans experiencing homelessness in San Diego,” Gonzales said. “We were also concerned that the Veterans Administration (“VA”) estimates on average 17 Veterans die each day by suicide. Roughly seven percent of the City of Loveland residents are Veterans, which does not count the many Veterans living in the Greater Loveland area, which includes Miami, Symmes, and Deerfield Townships. To think that our neighbors might be at risk or struggling was a great concern to the members of our club. Together, we can ensure that our local Veterans continue to have the resources needed to remain a strong part of our community.”

    The event—which DIA hopes will grow annually—pulls together the resources Veterans told the planning committee they would most like to see addressed based on what they are experiencing in their daily lives.