Caitlin Forsha

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By Caitlin Forsha, The Highland County Press Seven graduates, including one honored posthumously, were recognized Sunday, May 4 as the seventh graduating group of the New Way to Recovery Drug Court Docket of the Highland County Common Pleas Court. The spring 2025 graduates included Jessica Brown, Daniel Butcher, Terry Harlow, James Pauley, Joann Shapley and Teresa Sharpe, as well as Josh Hammond, who was honored posthumously both as a graduate and as the namesake of a new award for participants.

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By Caitlin Forsha, The Highland County Press Four individuals, including three co-defendants, were arrested on drug trafficking and possession charges this week as a result of Highland County Task Force investigations. Two of the four individuals were also charged with engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity. As previously reported, four indictments were sealed, or made secret, at the conclusion of the Tuesday, May 6 Highland County grand jury sessions.

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By Caitlin Forsha, The Highland County Press With voter turnout of just over eight percent in Highland County, the May 6 primary election saw an unofficial sweep of all five proposed levies and issues, including the Highland County Health Department levy and State Issue 2. The unofficial data Tuesday showed 2,260 ballots cast out of the 27,944 registered voters in Highland County, for turnout of 8.09 percent.

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By Caitlin Forsha, The Highland County Press A Hillsboro woman was sentenced to community control Wednesday after pleading guilty to meth possession charges in two separate cases. Virginia Beall, 48, was indicted by a Highland County grand jury in September and charged with  aggravated possession of methamphetamine, a fifth-degree felony. In February, she was indicted again, this time on a third-degree felony count of aggravated possession of methamphetamine.

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By Caitlin Forsha, The Highland County Press The annual Flying Pig Marathon took place Sunday, May 3 in Cincinnati, where Leesburg native Ethan Davis finished third overall out of 4,707 runners. Davis, 23, is a 2020 graduate of Fairfield High School, where he was a state qualifier and All-Ohio honoree in cross-country. He also competed at the collegiate level as a member of the cross-country and track and field teams at Queens University of Charlotte.