On July 22, 1948, the Brookville Star carried very good news. The Montgomery County Common Pleas Court ruled that J. D. Landis and attorney Robert Herkins were correct that Brookville had been wrong to return the land at the northwest corner of the village to Elgin Weaver in 1938 and that Golden Gate Park belonged to the village in perpetuity. (The case did not end there but continued until the state Supreme Court made the same ruling in 1960.)
Other news that month was less pleasing. Herschel Frederick, 4, of Trotwood drowned in Wolf Creek, and Mr. and Mr. C. R. Ryan died in a in a car-train crash on Route 40.
C. O. Wampler on Amity Road lost $25,000 of animals and a barn in a fire. Motorists slowed the New Lebanon Fire Department’s response to Brookville’s call for help; officials gave police license numbers of the offenders.
Some area farmers sold their sheep when they couldn’t find shearers.
Closing of Pyrmont School, the last one-room school in the county, was announced.
The government announced that males aged 19 through 25 with no deferments could be drafted within two years.
Earlier, in 1933, the news was good, even with the Depression. The Lewisburg and the Brookville banks might reopen. Finances were available for the community picnic on Aug 2 and the Farmers Picnic on Aug. 16.
C. C. Vaniman of Trotwood advertised the latest appliance: a refrigerator with shelves in the door.
Years later, July of 1973 was a mix. Gary “Kim” Garlitz died on a Scout trip in Ontario when lightning struck a tree 30 feet from his tent and traveled down the tree and through the long roots to his tent.
Due to the nationwide gas shortage, Jim Yount reduced the hours of his Sohio station at I-70 and Arlington from 24 hours a day to 17.
One striking telephone worker brought a horse to the picket line. Telephone officials said the statewide strike would not affect local service.
Delta Theta gave the Historical Society $1,100.
In 1998, a utility pole behind O’Riley’s fell, knocking down the transformer and causing a power outage.
The village considered using its own wells for water since Dayton wanted 50 percent of all revenue from extended service areas.
A couple sued the middle school, claiming the principal struck their daughter with a phone receiver when she was trying to call her parents.
But July 30 saw the ribbon cutting at the Wolf Creek Bike Trail. When Ray and Georgia Reed, 8-year-old Forrest and 5-year-old Hunter used the trail during the Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure, Forrest told the Star he was most excited by a dead skunk in the road.
A demonstration of scenes from “Blue Jacket” and a Civil War re-enactment were scheduled for the Brookville picnic.
In 1998 Jim Hoffman became publisher/editor of the Star.
In the summer of 2022, residents were concerned about sexuality information in the Brookville schools.
The city had American Rescue Plan Act funds to deal with the drainage problem at E. Westbrook and Albert roads.
The county auditor received a report of suspected credit card skimming in New Lebanon but found no sign of the devices.
Finance Officer Sonja Keaton said a splash pad at Golden Gate Park was not possible.
The past is never far past. In 1948, the Star reprinted an article by Marion Esterline of the Dayton Journal about 90-year-old Brookville resident Theodore Detweiler. He remembered Civil War recruiters working on Hay Avenue where the Masonic Building now is.
