Stories from Sunday, July 1, 2018

Young Isaac Loughmiller is your typical healthy and happy two-year old boy these days. However, his life got off to a bit of an early start when he was born nine weeks premature to Shannon Loughmiller at Union Hospital. June 14, 2016 was the beginning of a long journey in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, or NICU, for the Loughmiller family that involved what Shannon referred to as a “scary world of cords, beeps, monitors and nurses. ...

The Brazil Concert Band, directed by Matthew S. Huber, presents Old Favorites July 8th, 8 p.m. at Forest Park rain or shine. From the movies come “Tara’s Theme” from Gone With The Wind by Max Steiner, Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer”,from The Sting and from The Sandpiper, “The Shadow of Your Smile” by Johnny Mandel...

The hot topic at the Clay Community School Board of Trustees June meeting was the condition of the high school outdoor athletic facilities, especially the Northview High School football field. To keep the current natural grass surface, construct and maintain a more plush grass playing field or consider replacing the field with a synthetic one are the questions at the middle of the debate...