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Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Neil adjusts his hat on the head of his newly adopted son, Sebastian. PHOTOS BY CAMERON KNIGHT/THE ENQUIRER

‘I THINK IT WAS MEANT TO BE’

Sheriﬀ Neil and his wife adopt 2 boys after years of quietly caring for them Cameron Knight Cincinnati Enquirer

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amilton County Sheriff Jim Neil has quietly been caring for two young brothers for more than fi ve years. On Thursday, he and his wife Kim adopted them. The couple never had children of their own. The sheriff is retired and this is his last term in offi ce after losing the Democratic primary this year. The boys are six and seven. “Sheriff , you’re busy enough, but at the young age of 62 to adopt,” Hamilton County Probate Judge Ralph Winkler said. “You’re kind of an overachiever.” The older boy, Sebastian, donned Jim sheriff ’s hat until the proceeding started. After the introduction by the judge’s clerk, Rick Compton, he raised his hand and waited.

“I like your suit,” he told Compton. Neil told The Enquirer that their journey to this day started about 25 years ago. Jim was a deputy and Kim and working at a West Side Hollywood Video. They lived in a 950-square-foot Sears and Roebuck kit house that they bought from the original owners in Sayler Park. They still live there today and have no plans to move. One of Kim’s coworkers needed a place to stay. He was 18 when he moved in. He stayed in a room in the home’s fi nished basement for more than fi ve years. Neil and the teen had a common connection. His father was a Cincinnati homicide detective, a man who once handled the investigation of an offi cerinvolved shooting that Neil was a part of. “It’s a small world,” Neil said. “I think it was meant to be.” Years later in 2012, the teen who once lived with the Neils had a son of his own. Jim and Kim were at the hospital on Christmas Eve when Sebastian was born and became unoffi cial godparents. See ADOPTION, Page 2A

Sew Valley co-founders say they’ve manufactured over 10,000 masks this year – and they aren’t stopping any time soon. The non-profi t organization specializing in sustainable apparel and manufacturing shut down in March with the majority of other Ohio businesses. Long before Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine issued a mask mandate, CEO Rosie Kovacs had already begun prototyping mask designs. “We basically evolved from doing small-batch apparel, kind of, you know, project by project, to now we have... I guess you could say we have two departments,” Kovacs said. “It’s just another arm to the business.” Sew Valley now off ers three diff erent styles of their 100% cotton fabric face masks, which COO Shailah Maynard says they can produce by the thousand for large company orders, or sell individually online. Sew Valley masks are blue with black ties, Maynard said. They are recognizable to the Sew Valley family, and Maynard says she sees them around the city sometimes. The masks are reusable. Not like those disposable blue masks she often sees, which Maynard says are becoming a problem. “(They’re) washing up in the oceans and are, you know, aff ecting animals and the environment. So it is a new product that is everywhere, like I see them on the street and (in) the trash all the time,” Maynard said. Sew Valley also works with clients to make custom masks and other PPE items, like gowns for healthcare facilities. Their gowns are launderable, Kovacs said, and being tested now at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. “Which, I will say, is really cool because their whole entire facility is operated on disposable, and this is giving them an opportunity to transition into a reusable, launderable process,” Kovacs said. See SEW VALLEY, Page 3A

Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Neil and his wife, Kim, adopted two boys Thursday after raising them for more than ﬁ ve years.

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By the time Sebastian was 8months-old, the Neils were babysitting him every weekend, Friday night to Monday morning. When Sebastian’s brother, Caleb, was born in 2014, he joined the weekend sleepovers. The Neils turned their second bedroom into a nursery. They had clothes and toys and beds for the boys. “We were just being good godparents and helping out,” Neil said. “We never expected, day one, when we were in these boys’ lives of raising them. We thought we were going to be their godparents and just spoil them like grandparents would.” Then they got a call from a caseworker asking if they could take the boys full time at least for a few months. Sebastian and Caleb stayed for eight months before going back to their parents for about a year, then another call came. It was a week after Neil was elected to his second term as sheriff in 2016. “It just made sense that the boys were placed with us,” Neil said. “We babysat these children since they were infants. We were already in their lives. I don’t think we missed a weekend.” About a year later, Jobs and Family Services transferred custody of the boys to Jim and Kim. In the Spring of 2018, the boys were baptized and they offi cially became the Sebastian and Caleb’s godparents. The boys call Jim “G-Pa” and Kim “GMa.” Kim said they didn’t want to step on any toes. Their paternal grandparents are Opa and Oma and they know their mom and dad. “We waited a couple years to see if the parents were making improvements,” Neil said. “You always hope that parents get their act together... but the situation wasn’t any better.” They started the adoption process early this year. “There will be security for these boys now,” Neil said. “They won’t have to worry if next year they might have to live somewhere else. It’s for the kids.” Jim said his home is just like many others, especially during this pandemic. Kim took on homeschooling at the height of the lockdown for the boys who were in fi rst grade and kindergarten. They all chip in to take care of their fi ve-

Caleb, left, and Sebastian look through photos albums at their adoption ceremony Thursday. CAMERON KNIGHT/THE ENQUIRER

pound dog named Smudge. “They had lessons and we had to make sure we didn’t miss them. I’d get home and say, ‘OK, What’s left, Gma?’ Then I would take over,” Neil said. “We never had our own. This is our fi rst rodeo.” Now the kids are back in class. They get them off to school each day, each with their own water bottle since the water fountains are shut off .

“We never had our own. This is our ﬁ rst rodeo.” Jim Neil

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On Thursday, the boys went to school in the morning. Jim picked them up before lunch to head to court for the adoption. Neil said that wouldn’t be much time for celebration Thursday. The boys both have football practice ahead of their big game Saturday. They are Bandits, a West Side team. Judge Winkler, known for his dry humor, in recounting Jim’s life noted that he graduated from Western Hills High School, the “second best high school” in Ohio. Winkler graduated from Colerain High School. “Both of you have been boring in terms of criminal conduct,” Winkler said to the sheriﬀ as he reviewed the ﬁ le. “We didn’t check internationally.”

Winkler asked the boys about their favorite superheroes. “Did you know Spiderman was adopted by his aunt and uncle?” Winkler asked. “You mean Aunt May,” Sebastian replied. “We got an expert here, Judge,” Compton said. Winkler explained that Batman, Superman, Spiderman and the X-Men were all adopted. He praised Jim and Kim for stepping up. “I’m an old woman,” Kim told the judge. “This isn’t where I’d like to start raising children, but I know that people need to do the right thing.” The boys still see their parents. Saturdays are for Opa and Oma and their father can see them there. Sundays are for Aunt Linda where they can see their mother. Aunt Linda was in court Thursday. She said she was “overjoyed” that the adoption was happening and was grateful that Jim and Kim have kept the connection alive with the boys biological family. Kim cried as the judge and others spoke. Caleb handed her a tissue. “Tears can be happy,” she told him. After Winkler ﬁ nalized the adoption, the Neils, who are just added their last name to the boys’ names, gathered in front of the bench for photos. “What did the judge say to the skunk that came to court?” Winkler asked Sebastian. “Odor in the court.”

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22 years in prison for man who beat girlfriend, eluded capture Cameron Knight Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

She asked the judge to give her former boyfriend one year in prison for every hour she was trapped in a bathroom hiding from him. She was there for 16 hours after he attacked her. On Oct. 2, Curtis Scott was sentenced to that and more. He will serve 19 years in prison for felonious assault, kidnapping and abduction, plus another three years for a weapons charge. In an incident caught by surveillance cameras, Scott brutally beat his then-girlfriend Brenda Luper in the hallway of a West End apartment in July 2019. The video shows him punching her in the face, dragging her by her hair, stomping on her head and slamming her body on the concrete for eight minutes. After she was dragged back to the apartment, she hid in a bathroom eventually clawing her way through a wall to get help, prosecutors said. “On July 11 when I was rescued, a piece of me never left the bathroom,” Luper told Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Jody Luebbers Oct. 2. Wearing large earrings emblazed with the word “Survivor,” Luper said at ﬁ rst, she wasn’t sure he deserved a long sentence despite causing “the worst day of my life.” “Even though I know that he had just tried to kill me, the inner person inside of me wouldn’t allow me to hate him enough for him to go to jail for a long time,” Luper said. “After coming here today and hearing him lie about what happened that

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families in need. The ‘Masks For All’ campaign set a goal to raise $80,000 – masks are $4 a piece – and had raised $8,160 as of Oct. 14, Maynard said. Sew Valley will be raising funds until the end of the year. To donate, you can email Maynard at shailah@sewvalley.org, go to Sew Valley’s website at sewvalley.org or send a check to Sew Valley at 1010 Hulbert Ave, Cincinnati OH 45214. There was certainly a surge in de-

mand for masks at the beginning of the pandemic, Maynard said. Things have died down since. But both Kovacs and Maynard agree that masks aren’t going away. “I feel like I will hold on to mine,” Maynard said. “They might not be on the hook right by my front door to grab in and out of the house. But I do think that it is a new lifestyle that we’ve all learned to become accustomed to.” Maynard said she believes people will continue to wear masks, post-pan-

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demic and for years to come, to protect others from various illnesses they may have and spread. Kovacs agreed. “My prediction is this will have a huge impact on the children and people who are of school age,” Kovacs said. Perhaps that generation will grow up with more paranoia around spreading illness, Kovacs said. And in that case, masks are likely to stick around.

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night, it just reminded me who he really is.” She called Scott a monster, a narcissist and “completely delusional” because he doesn’t think anything is wrong with him. “He called me every day for two weeks while he eluded the police and never said sorry,” Luper said. “I believe he may be sorry now, but he’s only sorry because he didn’t fi nish the job.” Despite speaking with a Hamilton County deputy the night of the attack and a Cincinnati police SWAT team responding to the apartment, Scott managed to elude capture and was on the run for three weeks before his arrest, the judge said. Judge Luebbers said this caused Luper to be victimized twice because law enforcement did not handle the situation correctly and allowed Scott to get away. Scott also spoke in court Oct. 2 saying that it was Luper who started the fi ght by insulting his recently deceased mother. “I didn’t want no trouble that night. I never said anything to her. I was listening to my music. I was thinking about my mother. I was thinking about my life,” Scott said. “I was really in a dark place in my mind and my heart. When she said that she took off running, and I did not make the best decision.” He said that night he wasn’t himself that he is not a violent person. After he spoke, prosecutors read his criminal history which included convictions for multiple violent off enses, at least a decade of prison time for drug charges and seven domestic abuse cases that had been dismissed over the years.

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Those recordings later ended up in an 81-page federal indictment accusing Clark, former Speaker Larry Householder and several others of trading nearly $61 million in bribes for a $1.3 billion nuclear bailout.

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Columbus lobbyist Neil Clark, recently indicted in connection with the state’s largest bribery scandal, says he was secretly recorded by Cincinnati hotel developers who weren’t what they seemed. Those recordings later ended up in an 81-page federal indictment accusing Clark, former Speaker Larry Householder and several others of trading nearly $61 million in bribes for a $1.3 billion nuclear bailout. Clark told The Enquirer he now suspects that two Cincinnati hotel developers, named Brian Bennett and Rob Miller of Monarch Development Inc., were either FBI agents or conﬁ dential informants, Cleveland.com ﬁ rst reported. How did the largest scandal in Columbus reach Cincinnati? Clark said he was introduced to Bennett and Miller by Cincinnati lobbyist John Rabenold. Clark later met the men

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at his Columbus oﬃ ce in January 2019. “It was (because of) Rabenold’s persistence that I took the meeting,” Clark

Cincinnati police seek help ﬁ nding 19-year-old missing from Westwood Chris Mayhew Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Editor’s note: Information included reﬂ ects this article’s original publication date – Oct. 19. Visit Cincinnati.com for possible updates. Cincinnati police are asking for help in ﬁ nding 19-year-old Dominic Allen, who has not been seen since he left his Westwood home on Sept. 26. Allen told his parents around 9 p.m. Sept. 26 that he was leaving his home on Fenton Avenue to visit a friend, accord-

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said. Rabenold could not be reached for comment. The developers had a simple pitch: They wanted to oﬀ er sports betting at a downtown Cincinnati hotel, which had not been built. Ohio lawmakers were considering where to allow sports betting and Clark could help them. In June 2019, Clark and his clients watched a Reds-Houston Astros game in Cincinnati then met lawmakers at the

penthouse of 580 Walnut St. Rep. Bill Seitz, R-Green Township, said he met developers connected to that hotel project who were interested in sports betting, but he couldn’t recall a speciﬁ c time or place. Pete Witte, a prominent Westside activist who is politically connected, introduced Seitz to the men. Seitz told The Enquirer that he warned the developers that their chances of getting a sports betting terminal in their hotel would be “slim to none.” Lawmakers weren’t interested in making sports betting locations ubiquitous. Clark suspects the hotel developers recorded him in conversations later held in Nashville and a Columbus suburb. The July and September 2019 conversations were quoted in the federal indictment, detailing how the nuclear bailout was passed and defended. Clark has pleaded not guilty to charges included in the federal case. He recently ﬁ nished a book about his decades in politics and plans to release it in 2021.

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Editor’s note: Information included refl ects this article’s original publication date – Oct. 20. Visit Cincinnati.com for possible updates. The Hamilton County Sheriff ’s Offi ce is asking the public’s help in fi nding a man identifi ed as a suspect in a double shooting in Whitewater Township on Oct. 16. The sheriff ’s offi ce said in a press release that it is looking for Brian James Jackson, 23, who is known to frequent Whitewater, Harrison and Crosby townships as well as the Indiana cities of Lawrenceburg and

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You’ve heard me say before that it doesn’t take much to please me. Today, I received another “gift without ribbons.” Friends Ray and Roger Davis brought a dump truck load of horse manure for my gardens. Black gold is what I call it! We’ll spread the manure out evenly, and let it continue to age until spring. Seeing those mounds of black gold takes the sting out of having to bush hog what remained of the veggies and ﬂ owers. This is the time of year, too – Halloween – for fun, uncomplicated fare, like caramel popcorn. Looking at the

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Cincinnati’s West Side is getting a new coff ee shop. Biggby Coff ee is heading west to Monfort Heights starting Oct. 27, according to the company’s news release. Owners Jon and Deb Mills off ered free coff ee to the fi rst 25 customers who stopped by the grand opening. The Mills’ fi rst Biggby branch on Red Bank Road is joined by their newest Biggby Coff ee at 5434 North Bend Road in Cincinnati. The Monfort Heights location features indoor and outdoor seating, and a drivethru. Inside, customers will fi nd power outlets at every table and free WIFI. The Mills family believes in community development, having fun, sharing coffee, and making new friends. They have already started working with local schools and have a history of partnering with other local causes including churches and nonprofi ts. “In my corporate job, I didn’t feel like I was doing something that I really enjoyed or making an impact in my community. It’s awesome to know that we have an outlet to engage with our community

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Movies in a pandemic: AMC will let you host a private screening for $99 Sarah Brookbank Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Missing the movies but not ready to go mingle with strangers? Thanks to AMC, you can book your own private theatre. AMC is letting people host personal screenings of new and old movies for up to 20 people. “It’s perfect for an everyday escape or a celebration to remember,” AMC said. Some showings start at $99 and oth-

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No, Kate Schroder didn’t raise your taxes Scott Wartman Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Kate Schroder has never held elected oﬃ ce. But Republicans and conservative groups have run three television ads that give the misleading impression she raised taxes. Schroder is the Democratic nominee running for Congress against Westwood Republican Steve Chabot. Experts across the country label the race a tossup. Three ads, one each from the conservative super political action committees Club for Growth Action and Congressional Leadership Fund and another from the National Republican Congressional Committee, try to link Schroder to the sales tax approved by voters in Hamilton County in April to pay for transit. But what’s the truth?

The ads An ad run by the Club for Growth Action PAC: “It takes a special kind of politician to raise taxes in a pandemic. Like Kate Schroder. Especially recklessly liberal, Schroder supported raising county sales taxes by nearly a full percent, highest in the region. Everyone pays, mom and pops, out of work, out of luck. Threatening our recovery, even public health. Raising taxes on PPE, masks, sanitizers, more expensive. What was Schroder thinking? Certainly not about you.” An ad run by the National Republican Congressional Committee: “Cup of coﬀ ee? Kate Schroder wants to tax that. Car broke down? Gotta ﬁ x it? Kate Schroder wants to tax that. Pizza night with the family? Kate Schroder wants to tax that. Schroder supported raising the sales tax on pretty much everything. Voters rejected the tax once, twice, three times. But Schroder endorsed it. If she gets to Washington, Schroder will tax you some more. When things cost more, thank Kate Schroder.” Ad run by the Congressional Leadership Fund: “Times are tough for Ohio small businesses. So why did Kate Schroder want to make them tougher? Schroder backed raising local sales taxes, forcing you to pay 11% more, the highest in the region. Under Schroder’s plan, everything you buy–more expensive: school supplies, kids’ clothes, even toilet paper. During a pandemic, liberal Kate Schroder’s priority was higher taxes. That tells you all you need to know.”

The facts The ads refer to the 0.8% sales tax hike approved by voters in April as Issue 7. Again, the sales tax was approved by voters, albeit narrowly. But the ads give a misleading impression it was “Schroder’s plan.” It was a plan put forward by Cincinnati Metro to improve bus service. The transit sales tax also pays for infrastructure projects. Cincinnati Metro’s board in Sept. 2019 voted to put the tax on the primary

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ballot in 2020. It had the backing of the business community, including the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber. Voters approved Issue 7 by a little less than 1,000 votes in the April Primary. The ads cite a tweet Schroder posted on May 14 congratulating Hamilton County commissioner candidate Alicia Reece for her work in getting Issue 7 passed. But Schroder and Reece are hardly the only Democrats to support the sales tax increase. The Hamilton County Democratic Party voted to endorse the transit tax in February. Some conservatives, including State Rep. Bill Seitz, R-Green Township, also supported the tax. As part of the trade-oﬀ , the approval of the 0.8% sales tax meant Cincinnati’s 0.3% income tax that went to support bus service came oﬀ the books. Kate Schroder in a statement stood by her support for Issue 7. “I was proud of the diverse coalition that came together to support real investment in our crumbling infrastructure, including Republicans, Democrats, the Chamber of Commerce, Labor unions, and many community leaders,” Schroder said in the statement. The Congressional Leadership Fund ad correctly states that Hamilton County now has the highest sales tax rate in the region. Hamilton County’s 7.8% sales tax rate is the second-highest among Ohio’s 88 counties only behind Cuyahoga’s, which is 8%. The 0.8% tax hike raised the sales tax from 7% in Hamilton County. The Republican National Congressional Committee ad mentions voters rejecting the tax three times but doesn’t say when. Voters in Hamilton County rejected Metro bus levies in 1971, 1979, 1980 and most recently in 2002. Exactly how much of a tax hike the transit sales tax will cost an individual depends on one’s spending habits. According to the IRS calculator, for a household making $50,000 to $60,000 annually, the 0.8% sales tax will cost an additional $100 a year. Calvin Moore with the Congressional Leadership Fund stood by the ad. “Kate Schroder supported increasing sales taxes at home, which tells you exactly the kind of tax-hiking policies she’d push in Washington,” Moore said in the statement.

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Construction continues at FC Cincinnati’s new West End Stadium in West End on Sept. 14. When ﬁ nished, the stadium will be able to hold 26,000 fans. HANNAH RUHOFF/THE ENQUIRER

Update on FC Cincinnati’s West End stadium Pat Brennan Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

To stand in the dirt and gravel on the fl oor of FC Cincinnati’s under-construction West End stadium is to understand that typical stadium jargon and nomenclature can’t be applied to the forthcoming venue. For instance, the phrase “upper deck” could mislead. There’s not much that’s “upper” about it. The fi rst 10 rows in the venue’s second level are at or below the same height as seats in the lower bowl of the University of Cincinnati’s Nippert Stadium, where FCC has played since 2016. That’s about half of the second-level capacity at the West End stadium, said Jeff Smith, FC Cincinnati’s Vice President of Sales and Ticketing. The concept of stadium food, too, has been re-imagined into an experiential element of the West End stadium. When FC Cincinnati supporters turn to the open, fl owing concourses for food

and beverage, they’ll be selecting from menu items featuring authenticallyCincinnati fare curated by Levy Restaurants, which collaborated with FCC in designing the fan-friendly concourse layout. “Probably the biggest transition that we’re doing in all of this is probably the food and beverage story,” Smith said. “There’s going to be integration of local fare... We’re going to have the household-name brands but we’re going to infuse that with local brands, the brands of Over-the-Rhine and the community and the neighborhood. What they deliver is going to be the biggest blow-yourhair-back factor.” And then there’s the second-generation Bailey, the safe-standing supporters section from which much of the match day atmosphere, smoke and drum banging will emanate. The new Bailey can pack in 3,170 spectators, which is up from about 1,700 in the north-end zone section of Nippert Stadium that’s existed as the current

Bailey. The new iteration towers over the ﬁ eld on a 34 degree decline – the steepest decline allowable by law. “It’s literally a wall of our fan base,” Smith said. The Bailey also features a dedicated bar area directly behind the seating bowl on the concourse, accessible seating and season-ticket memberships that equate to less than $20 a ticket per game. Fans had until midnight Friday to place a $50 deposit to book their place in line for selection of reserved seats. With club seats already sold out, the remaining ticket inventory was expected to sell quickly, Smith said. Smith said he’s hoping fans seize on the opportunity to claim a piece for FC Cincinnati’s ﬁ rst season in the venue. “For people who don’t have club seats, this is your opportunity,” Smith said. “For $50, that gets you your spot in line. If you’re a season ticket member, it’s based upon your priority. If you’re

not a season ticket member, it’s based upon when you make your deposit. It matters when you make it. And then we’re going to line everybody up and do seat selection. Beginning later this month, experience center, phone calls, Zoom. Everyone’s going to have the ability to personally select their seats.” Construction continues on the venue. The Enquirer took an exclusive tour of the building site on Oct. 13, led by Smith and Dan Lolli, FC Cincinnati’s vice president of facility operations. Lolli, a Cincinnati native who previously held posts at Columbus Crew SC, Sporting Kansas City and aided in making SKC’s training center operational, highlighted some of the amenities still to be installed. At ﬁ eld level, heavy equipment has been removed and the ground is being prepped for natural grass. The framework for the grand staircase that will face Central Avenue is alSee STADIUM, Page 2B

Locals play in DII, III golf ﬁ nals, advance to DI state Alex Harrison Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Joe Wilson, IV, from Lakota East High School, tees off during the St. Xavier High School golf invitational at Maketewah Country Club in Cincinnati on Aug. 8. E.L. HUBBARD FOR THE ENQUIRER

Some quality individual and team golfers recently represented Greater Cincinnati well in both DII/DIII state and DI district play. The area was represented by some qualifying individual golfers plus Bishop Fenwick in the boys and girls Division II state tournament and Seven Hills challenged in the Division III boys meet. Playing in the Division II state tournament, the Fenwick boys team had the highest-team fi nish, shooting a 659 for the No. 6 spot, 44 strokes behind winner Gahanna Columbus Academy. Luke Metzger led Fenwick with an eight-over par 150 good for seventh place, but Metzger wasn’t the top individual fi nisher in the area. Madeira’s Brandon Conner shot a 149, fi nishing in a tie for fi fth place just one stroke ahead of Metzger. Rounding out

Fenwick’s day was Colin Schadek (167), Landon Schehr (171), Tyler Schehr (175) and Zach Hayek (183). Roger Bacon’s Adam Trigg-Holdman scored a 20th-place tie with his 20-over par 163 score. In the girls Division II tournament, Fenwick shot a team total 725 for the No.7 fi nish, fi nishing 95 strokes behind state champion Lima Central Catholic. Halley McNair was on top for Fenwick with 178. Teammate Jocelyn Wright was one stroke behind with a 179 and Kaitlyn Hemmelgarn had a 180. Natalie Allen (188) and Amelia Snyder (197) fi nished for Fenwick, all within the top 51 spots on the leaderboard. For the Division III boys (OHSAA has no Division III for girls golf), Seven Hills fi nished with a 715, good for ninth place out of 12 teams. Canton Central Catholic won the team title with its 615 score over See GOLF, Page 2B

Zoe Luebbers, from Saint Ursula Academy, tees off during the Girls Greater Catholic League golf tournament at Glenview Golf Course in Cincinnati on Sept. 8. E.L. HUBBARD FOR THE ENQUIRER

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Putting high school sports on a pedestal Kathrine Nero Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

This area has an aﬃ nity for high school sports that few places do. And me telling you that is like explaining the proper way to eat a three-way. Not exactly a revelation. But it was a shock when I moved here from SEC country, where college sports are king, to land in a place where “Where’d you go to school?” means, of course, high school. My ﬁ rst job here was covering sports, from the Reds and Bengals to every Olympic sport in every high school hamlet you can think of. I remember driving with a photogra-

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two rounds. Jacob Joﬀ e from Seven Hills had a top ﬁ nish, shooting an eight-over par 152, which put him at seventh in the state, just six strokes behind the winner from Berlin Hiland. Jack Holden (184), Collin Chen (189), Andrew Yang (190) and Matthew Weirich (202) wrapped up the event for Seven Hills. Middletown Christian’s Evan Green also appeared, shooting a 172 in a tie for 34th place. The Division I golf state tournaments started on Friday, Oct. 23, and wrapped up the next day. The boys were scheduled to play on the OSU Scarlet Course while the girls would play on the OSU Gray Course. Mason and Sycamore girls advanced to the tournament as teams. Mason advanced after a second-

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pher through a residential area, him swearing that Dayton Green Devil stadium was around there somewhere. No way, I thought. Then the tightest footprint of a high school fi eld I’d ever seen appeared out of nowhere. Run through the back of the end zone and you’d literally hit a wall. I remember the crowd so pumped up for the camera at a Covington Catholic game that the kids broke the railing separating them from the track, three steps below. And the fi rst time I saw a high school football tailgate at St. Xavier. Or bought my fi rst split-the-pot ticket at The Pit. Remarkable. Athletes of any sport are put on pedestals in greater Cincinnati. Thirty years

place district fi nish by golfers Catherine Zhang, Jenna Harter, Maddie Heister, Ally Madden and Nicole Mater. Sycamore fi nished third in the district after performances by district champion Deeya Prakash, Sydney Wickert, Caroline Thompson, Grace Zhang, Yeonhwa Jung. Ursuline Academy’s Eleanor Hudephol and St. Ursula’s Zoe Luebbers also advanced to state as individual participants. For the boys, three area teams advanced to state. St. Xavier won its district with Zach Braun, Nolan Schuermann, Eric Braun, Zack Beard and Nick Stachler shooting a combined 299. Mason (A.J. Wilhelm, Charlie Golski, district champion Timmy Hollenbeck, Nate Vonderhaar and Daniel Heister) and Lakota East (Ty Sylla, Joe Wilson, Jake Curry, Adam Murphy and Cameron Uhl) took the fi nal two team spots. Jordan Gilkison from Springboro, Luke Lammers from Elder and Spencer

Curran from Fairfi eld clinched the individual qualifi er spots for the state meet. Editor’s note: Information included refl ects this article’s original publication date – Oct. 19. Visit Cincinnati.com for possible updates.

The staircase will lead to a plaza that will be open to ticketed fans and the public before matches. The plaza is expected to be a hub of activity, will oﬀ er food and beverage options and also be home to a TV set.

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later, that winning touchdown or key free throw will be recounted in glorious detail. We could debate the merits of such idolatry, but that’s another newsletter. The football season of 2020 has some lessons that may not make highlight reels or end with the hoisting of an award. Several teams are playing games the next few weekends – after being eliminated from the playoﬀ s, or not making them at all. Playing regular season games … just because. These teams will play with no chance of improving their standings. As Scott Springer writes, they’ll play only for the love of the game. Those are the stories worth telling 30 years later.

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What’s the true story of the Dent Schoolhouse? Jeff Suess Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

The frightful Dent Schoolhouse is one of Cincinnati’s most popular Halloween attractions, with people waiting hours in line for the chance to be scared out of their wits by costumed ghosts and ghouls. The Dent Schoolhouse has also been named one of the scariest haunted houses in the nation by the likes of “Oprah Magazine,” USA TODAY and BuzzFeed. Part of its draw is the eerie backstory of the old schoolhouse in the Dent section of Green Township. The spooky red brick building at 5963 Harrison Ave. was once the Dent Public School. Local legend says it was closed after dozens of schoolchildren went missing from 1942 to 1955. Owners Bud Stross, his father, Chuck Stross, and friend Josh Wells have been running the Dent Schoolhouse haunt since 2006. “We were young entrepreneurs looking to scare people, and it was serendipitous to ﬁ nd the Dent Schoolhouse,” said Bud Stross. “It’s said to be haunted by the janitor who killed some kids.” According to lore, students complained about a foul odor emanating from the school basement. When Dent citizens stormed the school in 1955, they discovered the grisly remains of the missing children in the basement, and the janitor, Charlie McFree had skedaddled. The old schoolhouse was then closed. “How do people not know about this?” Stross said. “We started doing

The Dent Schoolhouse, 5963 Harrison Ave., in Cincinnati. AMANDA ALLEY

If you go What: The Dent Schoolhouse When: 7:30-10 p.m. Thursday and Sunday, 7:30 p.m.-midnight Friday-Saturday, 7:30-10 p.m., through Nov. 4. Where: 5963 Harrison Ave., Dent. The Dent Schoolhouse was featured as No. 8 on Screams.com’s 2015 list of the Top 13 Haunted Houses in America. THANKS TO DENT SCHOOLHOUSE

our own research, ﬁ nding out the local legends. … We thought, we have to retell this horror story and allow people to relive it at the Dent Schoolhouse.” But is it true? Any of it? Stross told the Huﬃ ngton Post in 2010 that he’d tried to research the school’s history, but the records were inconclusive. “The Cincinnati Enquirer has no stories about it,” Stross told the website. “It’s really strange because we’re always looking for information about it.” It’s true that The Enquirer archive has no stories about the missing schoolchildren or Charlie McFree.

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property at auction in 1951 and converted the building into a tool and machine shop called Suburban Machine Co. that was in business until at least the late 1980s. Faded ghost letters still spell out “Suburban Machine Co.” across the Dent Schoolhouse. The old school became a haunted house in 1997 for WEBN, then as a charity haunt run by the Boy Scouts. Does it really matter if the legend is just a story? The Dent Schoolhouse is spine-tingling fun either way.

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But it does reveal the history of the school. Built in 1894, the schoolhouse was originally two rooms with an addition built in 1912, according to an Enquirer article from 1949. Also in 1949, the Dent Public School and the South Road School closed, and the students from both moved to the then-new Charles W. Springmyer Elementary School on Ebenezer Road, which still stands. The school is now part of the Oak Hills Local School District. Enquirer stories show that Leo L. Hengehold bought the Dent School

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Regional National Merit semiﬁ nalists named More than 200 Greater Cincinnati seniors have been named semiﬁ nalists in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program.

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They represent less than one percent of seniors from across the nation and include the highest scoring teens on the 2019 preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. With 29 semifi nalists, Mason topped the list of schools in the region, followed by Walnut Hills, 24; Sycamore, 22; and St. Xavier, 15. Mason’s semifi nalists were among 892 seniors in the 3,568-pupil high school, Ohio’s largest public high school. “These scholars bring pride to our school and community,’’ said Mason High School Principal Bobby Dodd. “Not only are they some of the nation’s top students, but perhaps even more importantly, they are good people who are sure to leave their mark on the world – just as they are leaving it at MHS.” The students are among 16,000 semifi nalists from across the nation. Locally, there were 190 semifi nalists from southwest Ohio, 19 from northern Kentucky, and two from southeast Indiana. About 90 percent of the semifi nalists will be named fi nalists in February. That makes them eligible for $2,500 scholarships awarded by National Merit and other scholarships awarded to semifi nalists by colleges, universities, and businesses. Altogether, about 7,600 scholarships

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