Richard Gillette

Dayton

Managing Editor at Dayton Daily News

Dayton Daily News Managing Editor. Great hacker on golf course. Love baseball and fish fear me. Follow my work @daytondailynews.com

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Former DDN chief photographer and editor, Skip Peterson, dies

Mar 16, 2025 | daytondailynews.com | Richard Gillette |Skip Peterson

Peterson was a staff photographer from 1973 to 1982 when he was named chief photographer and photo editor of the newspaper until he retired in 2007. A graduate of Ohio University with a degree in journalism, Peterson was the lead Dayton Daily News photographer and photo editor on the series “Military Medicine: Unnecessary Danger,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1998.
Local centuries-old oak tree brought down by storm

Oct 1, 2024 | daytondailynews.com | Richard Gillette

Legend in Preble County has it that when the wind rustles through the leaves of the large white oak, “one could hear the story of the events that it witnessed,” according to the Preble County Historical Society. “The Whispering Oak,” was designated a bicentennial tree by the National Arborists’ Association and the International Society of Arboriculture in February 1976. Wilson said they do not know the exact date the tree starting growing.
JD Vance to speak at Middletown rally following Republican National Convention

Jul 18, 2024 | daytondailynews.com | Richard Gillette

Doors open for the event at 10:30 a.m., according to the Trump campaign. Vance was raised by his grandparents in Middletown, while his mother, whom he introduced during his speech Wednesday, battled an addiction he said she put behind her 10 years ago. He spent a significant amount of time traveling to Kentucky with his grandparents to visit family and said he hoped to be buried in a small mountain cemetery there.
Newsletter: How to add laughter to your golf business outings and other news

Jul 12, 2024 | daytondailynews.com | Richard Gillette

If you want to reach him with a business tip, contact him at [email protected] or you can reach me at [email protected]. How often do you make business decisions on the golf course? Last night I got a couple of business tips on the course and one big laugh. Mother Nature decided to pour rain on us for about a half hour last night making the clubs a little slick. It was so slick, my playing partner put his five iron about five feet into a pond next to the tee box after a swing.
Newsletter: Inviting editor to cookout is going to cost you more this year

Jul 9, 2024 | daytondailynews.com | Richard Gillette

Tom Gnau is on vacation this week and it’s my honor to bring you the latest business news and what it means for the Dayton region. Contact me at [email protected] if you have an idea for a business story. I can smell the barbeque and green onion chips alreadyThe smell of potato chips will be in the air in the next two years.
Former DDN reporter and two-time Pulitzer winner, Kim Christensen dies at 71

Apr 17, 2024 | daytondailynews.com | Richard Gillette |Josh Sweigart

At the Orange County Register, he was part of a team that won the Pulitzer for reporting on stories about fertility fraud at the University of California-Irvine. At the Oregonian, in Portland, his work on abuse of immigrants by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service also earned the Pulitzer. Retired Dayton Daily News reporter Wes Hills worked with Christensen in the ‘80s, including an in-depth piece about an east Dayton crime family.
Column: In Greenville, at the centerline of totality, it was an emotional eclipse experience

Apr 9, 2024 | daytondailynews.com | Richard Gillette

I traveled to Greenville on Monday to walk in those same footsteps and be as close to the centerline of totality for the eclipse as I could get. Although Tecumseh and his brother reportedly predicted an eclipse, I’m sure they and their followers were in awe when the sun disappeared. People staged at the Darke County Fairgrounds on Monday had those same feelings after watching the totality of the eclipse for close to four minutes.
Solar eclipse in Ohio: Travelers from across nation talk about trip to Darke County

Apr 8, 2024 | daytondailynews.com | Richard Gillette

Today, thousands have traveled to Greenville to walk in the same footsteps of Tecumseh, or at several attractions set up for the Darke Side of the Moon celebration in Darke County. >> PHOTO GALLERY: Eclipse fans were already in Greenville getting ready SundayDarke County is one of several counties in Ohio that will be in the totality of the solar eclipse when it takes place shortly after 3 p.m. Monday. Here’s what several visitors had to say about their travels to Darke County.
Newsletter: Busted brackets, need for housing and a new area pizza joint coming by 2 neighbors

Mar 29, 2024 | daytondailynews.com | Richard Gillette

Our friends at outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas in Chicago tell us the tournament could cost employers nearly $10 billion in unproductive work. The firm’s estimate is based on 68 million adults who plan to wager on the games, according to 2023 figures from the American Gaming Association. Using the employment-population ratio of 60.1% in February 2024, that means approximately 40.9 million working Americans are likely to be caught up in March Madness, according to the firm.
Ohio governor declares state of emergency for tornado-hit counties

Mar 17, 2024 | daytondailynews.com | Richard Gillette

DeWine also activated the Ohio National Guard to help Logan County officials with the clean up of storm debris on public property. An assessment team from the 200th REDHORSE Squadron was deployed to Logan County Sunday morning to conduct an assessment of needed support. Three people were killed, several were injured, and a huge number of homes were destroyed Thursday night as a storm system spawned a series of suspected tornadoes across eastern Indiana and western Ohio.