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Did this Sharonville brewery just have the best ﬁ rst year ever? Third Eye Brewing won multiple gold medals at the U.S. Open Craft Beer Championship and the Ohio Brewer’s Cup Matt Koesters Special to Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

The entrance to a tunnel used as part of the Underground Railroad to hide and transport fugitive slaves in Glendale. PROVIDE/BILL PARRISH

Underground Railroad walking tour coming to village of Glendale Quinlan Bentley Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Hoping to raise awareness about the village’s history, a nonprofi t is organizing a walking tour of Underground Railroad sites in Glendale. The Eckstein Cultural Arts Center is creating a self-guided walking tour that stops at 10 to 15 historically signifi cant sites scattered throughout the village. An interactive website is also being created to support the tour and provide more information about the Underground Railroad in Greater Cincinnati. Bill Parrish, founder and director of the Eckstein Cultural Arts Center, said the idea for this project arose from discussions by members of the community following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police last summer. “We just took the idea, developed it and came up with arms and legs for it,” he told The Enquirer. Parrish said each station will essentially contain a “cliff note” about the area’s history and will be accessible to people who are hearing or visually impaired. “We just want the stations to give you a chance to see where you are, look around, see some of the historic homes ... and then continue on the path that takes you to the other side of the village,” he said. Parrish said the project is aimed at emphasizing Glendale’s role as a “central station” in helping fugitive slaves travel farther north. “Most everybody knows about what happened on the river,” he told the vil-

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This is not another installment of my Cincinnati Craft Brewery Power Rankings, but it might serve as a preview. I’m just going to come right out and say it: I don’t think there’s even a slight chance that another brewery has had – nor will another ever have – a ﬁ rst year as good as Third Eye Brewing in Sharonville. Yes, the brewery that opened in June. In the middle of a pandemic. I mean, it wasn’t diﬃ cult to see that Third Eye was going to be successful. As I noted in my preview of Third Eye’s grand opening, the brewery has a fantastic location, both geographically and aesthetically. The brewing team has a fantastic combination of experience and education.

Third Eye Kandy is the best Cincinnati-made beer I’ve had so far this year. Hands down. What I didn’t see coming: Multiple gold medals at the U.S. Open Craft Beer Championship and the Ohio Brewer’s Cup. At the latter, Third Eye’s Untapped Potential kolsch took best in show. Even if COVID-19 caused the number of contest entries to go down, it’s still absolutely bonkers – Third Eye had been around fewer than six months when they earned those accolades. You may be wondering why I’m talking about this now. In my Third Eye preview, I noted that getting cans in the coolers of local bottle shops was an “eventual goal” of the brewery. I’m pretty sure it was back in December when I picked up a 4-pack of Third Eye Cosmic Clash, a fantastic lemongrass and coconut New England IPA, at a local bottle shop. More recently, Third Eye released 6-packs of Third Eye P.A. (heyooo!), as well as 4-packs of Higher Purpose milk stout (which earned Third Eye a U.S. Open gold medal) and Third Eye Kandy, a raspberry milkshake sour. Third Eye Kandy is the best Cincinnati-made beer I’ve had so far this year. Hands down. Lactose is an in-

Third Eye Kandy from Third Eye Brewing. MATT KOESTERS/ FOR THE ENQUIRER

gredient that gets a lot of hate from a small but vocal segment of the craft beer community, but I doubt anyone will be complaining about its presence in this raspberry bomb. Moral of the story: Third Eye doesn’t can duds. And now that Jelly Brain v3 is being sold in 4-packs of 16-ounce cans at the brewery, it seems that a trip to Sharonville is now near the top of my to-do list. Third Eye Brewing, 11276 Chester Road, Sharonville. 513-771-2739; thirdeyebrewingco.com.

My early favorites for Cincinnati's Favorite Beer Nominations have opened for the 2021 edition of the Cincinnati’s Favorite Beer bracket. While I have no infl uence on the contest (save for this column), I do plan to submit a few nominations of my own: Fretboard Vlad Pilsner: Fretboard has quietly become one of my top breweries for 6-packs. I really wish the brewery would reconsider making Flute Loop Fruity Nugget IPA a year-round off ering, because it would instantly become my go-to IPA. Alas. Vlad is a world-class pilsner and will defi nitely be getting my vote. MadTree Shade Tart Fruit Ale: I think one of the best moves MadTree ever made was making Shade a yearround off ering. I defy you to fi nd me something more crushable. Narrow Path Coconut Porter: This beer is insanely good and criminally underrated. Get out to Loveland and grab a pint. Third Eye Kandy: Hey, it’s on the list of eligible beers!

Bill Parrish, founder and director of the Eckstein Cultural Arts Center in Glendale. PROVIDED/BILL PARRISH

lage council earlier this month, adding that many are unaware of the history of the Underground Railroad in Cincinnati’s suburbs. Parrish, who authored a book chronicling Black settlement in Glendale, said the Underground Railroad was operating in the area decades before the village was oﬃ cially established in 1855. “So we’re hopeful that through this, we can get a bit deeper dialogue within our community and the greater community can have a connecting point for See UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, Page 2A

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‘Start with his momma’

Woman accused of ordering killing on texts, according to court records Chris Mayhew Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

“Start with his momma.” Police say that was a text message a Colerain Township woman sent to order the killing of a 50-year-old Forest Park mother. Leslie Lawson was found shot dead at her Forest Park residence on April 2. That was a little more than two months after police said the text messages ordering her killing were sent on Feb. 3. Court records state a 17-year-old and a Springﬁ eld Township man arrested on murder charges are also accused of planning to come to kill Lawson’s son. On Feb. 22, Forest Park police arrested Eyionna Leary, 22, in connection with Lawson’s killing. Leary has been charged with complicity to aggravated murder. Leary was accused of soliciting

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the killing of her child’s grandmother, according to the Forst Park police arrest record. “Kill her,” is what police said Leary sent to then 16-year-old Timothy Williams via text on Feb. 3, 2020, according to court ﬁ lings. Leary was accused of saying in the text “I want this b---- dead.” The court ﬁ ling accuses Leary of sending Lawson’s Geneva Road address

to Kerwin Heard and Williams. The text messages included screenshots of arguments Leary was having with Lawson, according to court fi lings. She was accused of texting that her plan was to have Williams and Heard kill Lawson. Leary told them, according to court fi lings, where she and her son would be when the killing happened. Enquirer Media partner Fox19 reports that Lawson’s family members said Leary was there to grieve after the killing. The feud started between Leary and Lawson’s son, the father of Leary’s child, after the grandparents took the child to get a haircut, family members told Fox19. Heard, of Springfi eld Township, was indicted in July on two counts of murder. He had an ongoing feud with Lawson’s son, and killed her with “purpose

and calculation,” according to court documents cited in a July Enquirer story. The 17-year-old Williams, who was originally charged as a juvenile. The case was later transferred to adult court so Williams would to be tried as an adult alongside Heard. In October, a Hamilton County Grand Jury indicted him on four charges including two counts of murder. Court documents accuse the teenager, who will turn 18 in April, of taking a handgun and shotgun with Heard to Lawson’s residence in the early hours of April 2. They planned to kill Lawson’s son, according to court records. Leary remains in the Hamilton County Justice Center held on a $250,000 bond. She is scheduled to appear in court next on March 4. Enquirer reporter Cameron Knight contributed to this story.

Fights, a shooting and multiple arrests after ‘ﬂ ash mob’ at Dave & Busters Cameron Knight Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

A “fl ash mob” recently created chaos in Springdale. There were multiple fi ghts and a shooting. Four businesses had to close early Feb. 20. Springdale police responded to Dave & Busters off of Kemper Road just after 11 p.m. because a detail offi cer was having trouble controlling a “large crowd of juveniles,” a police report states.

The detail offi cer said there was a social media post telling people to go to the entertainment venue, make a fl ash mob and close the place down. “Multiple fi ghts, a shooting with no one injured, and multiple arrests occurred,” according to the report. At least eight law enforcement agencies from Butler and Hamilton County came to the scene to assist Springdale offi cers. As the crowd dispersed, the juveniles went to other businesses. In addition to

Dave & Busters, Full Throttle, Sky Zone and Target all closed early Feb. 20. Springdale police have reported two arrests in connection with the incident. A 16-year-old was charged with trespassing and resisting arrest after police said she tried to re-enter Dave & Busters after the initial response. A woman was pulled over in connection with the incident and a gun was found in her car, police said. Springdale police said the social media post may have originated on Tik-

Tok. No one was injured in the incident, police said. There is an ongoing trend of mobs of teenagers swarming speciﬁ c locations, often prompted by social media posts. During the 2019 Christmas season, malls across the country endured similar events. During that time, teens blitzed Northgate Mall and Kenwood Mall instituted strict rules against unattended minors to prevent the same thing from happening there.

Meet The Enquirer’s Carl Weiser like Report for America, which has given us a corps member to cover Northern Kentucky and soon, Butler, Warren and Clermont counties.

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Position at The Enquirer: Politics and business editor.

Why I became a journalist Didn’t get into Ivy League law schools. Family friend suggested this trick: go work in a ‘real world’ job for a year and then reapply to those law schools. I wasn’t qualiﬁ ed to do anything, so I ended up as a reporter at the Watertown (NY) Daily Times. From my ﬁ rst day writing a story about tomato blight, I never thought about going to law school again.

What I like best about my job Watching the audience devour the stories from my team, comment on those stories, share them, yell about them on social media and take action

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based on them. The smart, curious, funny, iconoclastic pains in the asses who populate the newsroom, and whom I miss terribly.

A story I worked on that has had a lasting impact on me When I was covering county council in Delaware, I had to call one of the council members for his response after uncovering some minor miscue of his. His response: “Oﬀ the record, no comment,” was one of the dumbest quotes I’ve ever heard, a Möbius strip of stupidity.

What is the biggest challenge I face The problem facing all local journalists now and our democracy: the loss of local journalists. Every day in Greater Cincinnati we have more stories than we have reporters. There are almost certainly hundreds of great local stories out there going undiscovered and uncovered – stories that aff ect the lives of you or your family or neighbors. Fortunately, we are fi nding ways to cover these, most recently by partnering with nonprofi ts

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understanding history a little better,” he said. “It’s just one tool that helps further the conversation.” The project has received overwhelmingly positive responses from village oﬃ cials.

Favorite event or Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky tradition I love the little neighborhood events Wyoming puts on (when there’s not a pandemic): the annual fall festival, where my daughter and her friend could rent a table for $10 to sell homemade cookies and crafts when they were younger; Light Up Wyoming, where we put out luminaries and go for carriage rides, eat cookies and listen to young musicians; and now our weekends drinking outside on our village green.

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Cincinnati’s St. Patrick’s Parade is canceled for second year Sarah Brookbank Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Journalism – real journalism – matters more now than ever. Why? Because misinformation is now spreading faster, farther and deeper than ever before. What people don’t understand is what mainstream journalists like those at Cincinnati.com do: we verify, doublecheck, talk to people aﬀ ected, check what the documents say, get the historical and national context, all so that the reader learns what really happened and why it matters. Carl Weiser moderates The Enquirer’s Greater Cincinnati Politics group on Facebook.

Cincinnati’s St. Patrick’s Parade is canceled once again. The annual parade was one of the fi rst big cancellations for the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and has been called off again in 2021. “While this decision is diffi cult to make for the second year in a row, we appreciate and respect the times we all are living in now,” Cincinnati St. Patrick’s Parade Committee Chairman Chris Schulte said in a statement. The event was scheduled for March 13 at The Banks. Offi cials thanked businesses and restaurants of The Banks for “their continued support over the years and look forward to making next year one to remember.” “We encourage all those in our TriState to celebrate the patron saint of Ireland in a safe manner and support those local restaurants & businesses who are struggling through these times,” Schulte said.

“It’s a wonderful project and I’m very glad to see it underway,” Councilmember Marilyn Duke said during a Feb. 1 meeting. Glendale Mayor Donald Lofty said the project will be “very worthwhile and beneﬁ cial to the village.” Besides being used by residents and Glendale’s schools, Lofty told The Enquirer that he hopes the tour will also serve as an attraction that brings people to the village. “It’s an opportunity for greater dia-

logue,” Lofty said. The project has been given the goahead by the Glendale Village Council and funding has been secured to cover more than half the estimated $35,500 needed to develop the tour, Parrish said. There are currently 22 people working on the project, he said, adding that right now the team is working on writing the tour’s narrative and creating the site map for the website. The project is expected to be ﬁ nalized by next year.

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The Root Beer Stand picks opening day Sarah Brookbank Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Homemade root beer is used to make a root beer float at The Root Beer Stand in Sharonville. CARA OWSLEY/THE ENQUIRER

The Root Beer Stand in Sharonville has picked its opening day for 2021. The season will begin on Monday, March 8 at 11 a.m., ushering in the fi rst signs of spring. Zip Dip in Green Township has also announced an opening day. The Stand originally opened as an A & W Root Beer Stand in 1957. "In 1982, the A & W franchise expired. The name was changed to 'The Root Beer Stand' and business didn't miss a beat, thanks to those loyal customers of the previous 25 years," offi cials said. It operates seasonally and is known for its root beer fl oats (obviously) and footlong cheese coneys. The Root Beer Stand is located at 11566 Reading Road in Sharonville.

The Root Beer Stand in Sharonville has picked its opening day for 2021. KELLY MCBRIDE/THE COMMUNITY PRESS

Green Township’s Zip Dip has announced opening date Briana Rice Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

It is not Opening Day or budding ﬂ owers that announce a new season in Greater Cincinnati. Spring is coming. Or at least, ice cream season is upon us. After 70 summers, Green Township’s Zip Dip has announced an opening date. The creamy whip plans to open on March 5 at 11 a.m. “Need something to help get you out of this polar vortex funk? How about a sign of spring to look forward to...the 2021 Zip Dip season begins just TWO weeks from today,” Zip Dip said in a Facebook post. Zip Dip is located at 4050 Drew Ave. in Green Township.

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Local Black-owned brand Creamalicious ice cream now available at Meijer Briana Rice Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

A Black-owned Cincinnati ice cream brand is now available at Meijer. Creamalicious, from local business owner Liz Rogers, is now available online and in certain Meijer locations. The ﬂ avors include Right as Rain Red Velvet Cheesecake, Thick as Thieves Pecan Pie, Slap Yo Mama Banana Pudding, Aunt Poonies Caramel Pound Cake and Granma Gigi's Sweet Potato Pie. "We pride ourselves on being innovative with our whimsical desserts that pair fresh baked pastries with homemade ice creams that are delicious and

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made with the freshest ingredients," the Creamalicious website says. There are several local Meijer locations in Oakley, Dent, Northgate, Fairﬁ eld, Eastgate, Loveland, West Chester and Milford. There are also stores in Cold Spring and Florence, Kentucky. Rogers opened Mahogany's at the Banks in 2012 until it was shuttered in 2014. The eatery shut down after failing to pay state sales tax. Rogers was told to pay back $100,000 in $800 monthly installments. The city forgave $183,391. Rogers announced her two new businesses one day after the city forgave part of her loan: a food truck called Mahogany's Wing Champs and Creamalicious.

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New Cincinnati charter school to oﬀ er classical education Madeline Mitchell Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

A new Cincinnati charter school focused on classical education is set to open in the fall of 2022. Cincinnati Classical Academy will open as a K-6 tuition-free public school, and another grade will be added each year until it covers K-12, according to founding board chairman Jed Hartings. The school will be open to any Ohio resident for enrollment. “We believe that a classical liberal arts curriculum is the best means to achieve the purpose of public education, which is to develop a citizenry capable of personal and political self-governance,” Hartings said. “Nearly all education was classical until recent genera-

tions, and it served our nation well. We want to off er an option that restores education to its original purpose, methods, and subject matters, and believe that Cincinnatians will embrace it.” The founding board has not yet settled on a site for the academy, but hopes to locate the school along the Interstate 71 or Interstate 75 corridor, according to a news release. The school received approval to open under the sponsorship of St. Aloysius, a Bond Hill nonprofi t focused on mental health and specialized education solutions, and through a partnership with the Barney Charter School Initiative of Hillsdale College. According to its website, Hillsdale supports charter schools that off er a rigorous, classical education in the liberal arts and sci-

ences, "with instruction in the principles of moral character and civic virtue." St. Aloysius already sponsors Northwest Ohio Classical Academy, a Hillsdale-aﬃ liated charter in Toledo. Hartings says Cincinnati Classical Academy will use Hillsdale's K-12 classical education curriculum, and will also use the college as a resource in providing further support in teacher training and development. “Hillsdale’s classical curriculum has already been implemented at more than 20 charter schools throughout the country, with remarkable success," Hartings said. "Most have long waitlists.” This curriculum covers language, math, science, history, literature and philosophy. The Cincinnati Classical Academy will also put an emphasis on

music and art, and begin implementing Latin courses in the sixth grade, the news release states. “The Barney Charter School Initiative stemmed from the realization that there are many schooling options for families, but few public ones that are built on a foundation of classical liberal arts learning,” Phil Kilgore, director of Hillsdale College’s Barney Charter School Initiative, said. “Hillsdale College has created an excellent academic program, and we’re excited to help to bring that off ering to Cincinnati.” Enrollment will open next winter. Hartings said the academy will likely start with around 350 students in grades K-6, and around 20 teachers and staff . The school is currently searching to fi ll the headmaster position.

These presidents with Ohio ties are now available in bobblehead form Briana Rice Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

These U.S. presidents are ﬁ nally getting a nod. On Feb. 19, the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum unveiled bobbleheads of 18 United States Presidents including three with Cincinnati area connections — William Howard Taft, Rutherford B. Hayes and Benjamin Harrison. The three presidents are among 18 new "neglected presidents" bobbleheads that are for sale at the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in Milwaukee. Taft was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and graduated from Yale and the University of Cincinnati before becoming President. Hayes, the 19th president, was born in Delaware, Ohio. Harrison was born in North Bend, Ohio, and graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, before moving to Indianapolis, Indiana. The bobbleheads are $30 each, plus a ﬂ at-rate shipping charge of $8 per order. A set of 18 is also available for a discounted price of $500. The bobbleheads are available at the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame online store.

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SCHOOL NEWS Maple Knoll Montessori Child Center named 2021 Most Loved Preschool by HulaFrog Hulafrog, a website that allows parents to search for activities, events, academics and more, just recently named their Most Loved Preschools in Cincinnati for 2021. The Maple Knoll Montessori Child Center, located on the campus of Maple Knoll Village, a continuing care retirement community, is honored to have made the list this year.

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Those visiting the site had the opportunity to vote on which preschool they thought should make the top ten. Winning schools received votes based on academics, social interaction, arts and crafts and more. One thing that made The Maple Knoll Montessori Child Center stand out was the intergenerational activities that are incorporated into the learning curriculum.

The Maple Knoll Montessori Child Center is a Montessori preprimary program for children 3 through 6 years of age with the options of a half day or full day, kindergarten, and extended day programs. The Child Center was developed in 1977 as a part of the original plans of Maple Knoll Village to integrate the community on a generational basis to help provide a comfortable environ-

ment where persons of varied ages could be present together. The Center is located at 11070 Springﬁ eld Pike in Springdale within the Maple Knoll Village continuing care retirement community. For more information on the Center please call 513-782-2498. Megan Ulrich, Maple Knoll Child Center

COMMUNITY NEWS Former Cincinnati artist Frederic Pissarro opens in new art show in Las Vegas Four years ago, internationally-known artist Frédéric Bonin Pissarro drove cross country from Morehead, Kentucky to Las Vegas, marveling at the “prehistoric landscape of lava, limestone, and iron-rich rocks” he encountered. Pissarro was traveling west to join the dynamic art and design faculty at University of Nevada-Las Vegas as a full-time lecturer. If the name Pissarro sounds familiar, it’s because Frédéric Pissarro is the great-grandson of Camille Pissarro, the 19th century French Impressionist painter. Frédéric Pissarro is a highly accomplished artist in his own right, recognized for his ﬁ gurative expressive paintings he describes as positive images dealing with spirituality, family, friendship, connectivity, and togetherness. “The desire to communicate, to remind all of us of our commonality rather than our diﬀ erences,” he explains, “is at the very center of my work.” Having had many successful years of selling to galleries and collectors throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, Pissarro is now featured in an upcoming show, Life Lines, at the Priscilla Fowler Fine Art Gallery, a contemporary exhibition space at 1300 South Main Street in the center of the Las Vegas Arts District. The show runs from Friday, March 5, with an opening from 6-10 p.m., through Saturday, May 1. Over 20 pieces of art by Pissarro will be featured in the main gallery, with new abstract mixed media work by owner/artist Priscilla Fowler hung on the walls of the adjoining Showroom. Prior to living in Kentucky, for sixteen years Pissarro taught and plied his art in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was sponsored by billionaire businessman Carl Lindner Jr., who purchased over 20 of his artworks and displayed them in prominent hotels and restaurants. Pissarro trained at l’ l’É-

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cole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and earned a B.A. and M.A. from Morehead State University. Amid the vibrant art scene in Las Vegas, Pissarro enthusiastically follows his longtime passion: to create art that brings people together by focusing on what unites them, a direct counterpoint to the violent and dividing times in today’s society. “There is so much anger in the world today that we forget how magical and beautiful the universe we live in really is,” Pissarro writes. The desert is his refuge. “When I work, I empty my head of thoughts and let my heart be ﬁ lled by the stories carried by the wind,” Pissarro explains. “I believe the role of an artist is to be a shaman, a wizard, a link to the invisible.” Pissarro immediately felt at home in his Southwest surroundings. “I soon realized that Las Vegas is not only a place of endless creativity but also at the center of amazing natural beauty,” he recalls. His new work has started to include textures of the landscape in which he spends so much time, echoing the observation of his prominent greatgrandfather, Camille Pissarro: “Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.” Connie Springer, Springer Publicity for the Arts

Springdale Charter Revision Committee meeting The City of Springdale Charter Revision Committee will meet on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 6 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Municipal

Building, Council Conference Room, 11700 Springﬁ eld Pike, Springdale, Ohio 45246. The agenda includes, but is not limited to, updates to the City Charter. The meeting is open to the public.

Springdale Records Commission meeting The City of Springdale Records Commission will meet on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Municipal Building, Administration Conference Room, 11700 Springﬁ eld Pike, Springdale, Ohio 45246. The agenda includes, but is not limited to, retention and disposition of records. The meeting is open to the public. Debbie Eldridge, City of Springdale

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The people who care: How harm reduction bloomed here with the opioid epidemic Terry DeMio Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Daryl Hams saw a discolored bandage poking out from the man’s sleeve. The bandage covered a festering abscess. A wound from a contaminated needle. The man had had it cleaned at a hospital but hadn’t yet picked up antibiotics prescribed for him. Daryl, who had never met the man before, handed the stranger fresh bandages, cleansing packets, and urged him to get and take all the antibiotics. Still, Daryl could not stop thinking about the young man. A nurse, Daryl bought wound-care supplies and carried them in a kit for three weeks, hoping to see the man again. Then one day, at the Hamilton naloxone-giveaway site: “Are you the guy with the wound?” Daryl asked a man in a cloth mask. “I was worried about you.” The man proudly showed off a wrist no longer bandaged, the abscess healed. He started to walk away. Then stopped and turned back. “It’s been a long time,” the man said, “since anybody worried about me.” ---Molly B. True was a 19-year-old college student in the late 1990s when she started using heroin. This was before the epidemic settled into the region. Heroin chic was fashion. Kurt Cobain, idolized. Now 41 and living with her boyfriend in Bellevue, Molly has seven broken-off needles in her body – arms, groin, neck – scarred over, there forever. It makes it tough to get an MRI. Tough to forget that she once had no place to go when she wanted to protect herself from infections. Molly had always tried to use safely. She tried, after getting hepatitis C, not to spread the virus to others. She’d buy syringes when pharmacists would sell them to her. She cared about her health. She says she was addicted to heroin but wasn't ready to get treatment. Molly knew of places across the country where people who injected drugs could get sterile syringes, no judgment. “I remember thinking, ‘Gosh, that’ll never happen in Cincinnati,’” she says. Because, in the late 1990s through the early 2000s you were on your own. Today, you are not. Today, there are Daryls. --It has taken Greater Cincinnati something like two decades to understand what Daryl and people like him off er. It’s called “harm reduction,” a host of strategies to minimize negative physical and social outcomes from drug use. It’s what those who use drugs can do between prevention and treatment: That place where most people who use drugs simply are. With the heroin epidemic grew the understanding that addiction is a health issue. And fi xing a health problem by locking it in jail, or even by scolding it, was not terribly eff ective. That maybe fi xing it, or starting to, requires being there. Being kind. Helping people stay safe. The epidemic grew. Understanding grew. Life got better for the Mollys of the world. Not everyone understood. Syringe exchange – trading used syringes for sterile ones – still feels wrong to a lot of people, who think it enables drug use. But there is no scientifi c evidence to suggest that people who inject drugs will stop using because they can’t fi nd sterile syringes. They will use what is available. “I remember using needles to inject my drugs that … were bent and it looked like something you’d pulled out of a gar-

Molly B. True, 41, of Bellevue, has used harm reduction services and ultimately sought treatment. She now serves on the Harm Reduction Ohio board of directors. PHOTOS BY AMANDA ROSSMANN/THE ENQUIRER

bage can, really,” Molly says. Scattershot needles back then led to a groundswell of complaints from neighbors who’d fi nd the syringes in playgrounds, grocery store parking lots and even their own lawns. The hepatitis C virus can live in the barrel of a syringe for up to six weeks. People started to realize they, or their children, could get the bloodborne disease. It was this threat to the general public that led some to begrudgingly accept the idea of the harm reduction strategy syringe exchange. “Everybody (who used), pretty much, had hepatitis,” Molly says. “A few people had HIV. “But your life is in such shambles from addiction that you don’t care.” --Dr. Judith Feinberg, an infectious disease expert who at the time was a professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, cared. She is the pioneer of harm reduction in Cincinnati. She saw hepatitis C cases rising and, by 2006, thought it was time for syringe exchange. Feinberg gathered research to point to the positive results of harm reduction elsewhere. Syringe exchanges had been going on for years, most notably after the AIDS crisis evolved in the 1980s and ‘90s. Feinberg took that evidence and met with public health offi cials, city leaders, neighbors. Steadily, she pushed for syringe exchange. Her analysis showed what newer studies amplify: Syringe services have been associated with a 50% reduction in HIV and hepatitis C. They cost less than $2 a day per person, research shows. Compare that to the lifetime cost of HIV treatment which is about $350,000 per person. The annual cost of hepatitis C treatment? About $84,000 per patient. That, and this: “People who use drugs are fi ve times more likely to enter treatment” if they use harm reduction, Feinberg says, noting U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. In 2014, Feinberg got the go-ahead to start a needle exchange. The fi rst attempt failed from community pushback, but The Cincinnati Exchange Project was operating a few months later, outside Church of Our Savior in Mount Auburn. The Cincinnati health board approved the exchange. UC College of Medicine covered major costs. Interact for Health supplied a grant. And as the mobile exchange expanded into several Cincinnati neighborhoods, Molly caught wind of it. “I’m like, ‘Impossible,’” she recalls. “I did a little investigating, because that’s what I do,” the former Northern Kentucky University journalism student says. “I went,” Molly says. “And I met some

Daryl Hams is a registered nurse and a project director of the Regional Harm Reduction Collaborative.

of the greatest people that I’ve met in years.” --The exchange was a place to get things: sterile syringes, drug-cooking devices and clean wipes, naloxone, HIV and hepatitis C tests, condoms. But it was not just about things. It was about treating people with dignity – an underpinning of harm reduction strategy, says Feinberg. “You have a totally supportive, nonjudgmental rapport so that if, or when, they are ready (for treatment), you are there.” For Molly, that support had a name: Billy Golden. Billy Golden – everyone calls him Billy – prefers to stay out of the spotlight and just do his job. When he worked for The Cincinnati Exchange Project you might ﬁ nd him on the streets, picking up used syringes, at the van or working at a table in some alley. Always, he made sure the exchange was a safe space for people who use drugs. If a client was there for three minutes, Billy says he made sure, “for three minutes of the day, that person was more than their drug addiction." “That that person can come and just breathe.” Once, when Billy was working in a Walnut Hills alley, his 100-pound German shepherd mix Wylie in tow, a woman asked if she could brush his dog. “She stayed for the whole shift and just brushed him and brushed him,” Billy says. “When she left, like, there was this lightness. Like, this break.” Sometimes Molly brought her dog, Fiona, to play with Wylie while she and Billy talked. “And, no matter what kind of mood I’d be in, he would always ask how I was doing. And it wasn’t about, ‘Are you clean yet?’ It was about, ‘Are you OK today?’ And that just felt right.” “I mean, my whole life it was like, my family and my friends and my ex-boyfriends were all like, ‘are you clean yet?’” Molly says. “I would always be

Billy Golden, a harm reduction coordinator at Caracole, in Northside, stands outside during a drive up exchange program the organization hosts weekly.

ashamed.” Billy was diff erent. “He knew that I was strung out and was just off ering me help for what I needed at that moment.” Billy helped Molly get a doctor who understood addiction. He laughed with her, listened to her. Once, when she was overwhelmed, Billy sat at a picnic table with Molly, off ered a notebook and pen and stayed while she thought through her priorities. But Billy says now it never occurred to Billy that Molly felt so strongly about his help. In 2018, Hamilton County Public Health took over The Cincinnati Exchange Project with sure funding. It was a signal to the region: County leaders believe in harm reduction. The service wends through Cincinnati, Hamilton County and even reaches into Butler and Clermont counties. Molly has been in methadone treatment since September 2020. She manages her drug use, using maybe twice a week instead of what used to be several times a day. She still stops at the Exchange Project, as it’s now called. One sunny Wednesday, Molly drove to the van at McMicken Avenue in Overthe-Rhine. Masked clients fi led in and out. A man carried a foot-tall, red plastic tub fi lled with used syringes. From a parking lot, Molly pointed out the van to a fi rst-timer. Then she walked over, disappeared behind the door and returned with two small bags. They held syringes, stretchy blue tourniquets, a plastic case for used syringes, disinfecting wipes and a plastic zip with more odds and ends. She would use some and provide some for a friend who has no transportation. But for Molly, the most comfortable place to spend time and fi nd help is Caracole, in Northside. Molly used to volunteer at the nonprofi t, but it suspended volunteer work when the COVID-19 pandemic started. Billy is there, working as a harm reduction coordinator. One recent evening, he parked his pickup in the lot and beelined to folding tables set up outside where co-workers stood. He’d come straight from a Northern Kentucky exchange, where he’d given clients HIV and hepatitis C tests. The Caracole exchange runs 5-7:30 p.m. Thursdays. Billy grabbed a clipboard, smiled through his mask and waved over cars that were idling in the lot. About 25 miles north of Caracole, Daryl is project director of the Regional Harm Reduction Collaborative. Funded through the Butler County Mental Health and Addiction Recovery Services Board with a state opioid response grant, it hosts harm reduction services, some new, in Butler, Warren, Clinton, Brown and Clermont counties. Daryl says he looks to Billy and other Caracole workers as harm reduction role models. “The people we see aren’t used to being seen,” Daryl says, tearing up. He learns clients’ names. He asks them about them. He advocates for them. The art and science of harm reduction and its menu options are evolving in Greater Cincinnati. Sometimes a city won’t allow needle exchange but offi cials will say OK to naloxone giveaways. Daryl hands out cards for Never Use Alone, a toll-free number that off ers safety by phone. Rob Goeller from Caracole off ers messaging on You Tube for how to use safely during the pandemic. Alexis Deatherage and Beth Bullock walk Clermont County streets checking on people and handing them water bottles, naloxone and snacks. There are myriad services with multiple funding streams, sometimes consisting of just donations. Molly embraces it all, though she no longer can keep track of everything available. She is excited for others who will benefi t from harm reduction. Like she has. “My life is exponentially better,” Molly says. “I am a diff erent person. I buy Christmas presents. I have a bed now.” “My ultimate goal (is) to continue to volunteer, and maybe it will lead to some actual, real job in harm reduction,” Molly said. “I feel like that’s where I belong.” In mid-January, Molly was unanimously appointed to the Harm Reduction Ohio board of directors. Her position is indicative of another pillar that the National Harm Reduction Coalition advocates: Ensuring that people who use drugs and those with a history of drug use routinely have “a real voice” in programming and policy designed to serve them. “We’re going to use Molly's knowledge and talents to make the world a better and safer place for people who use drugs,” says Dennis Cauchon, the nonprofi t’s founder. She can’t wait.

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SPORTS Mason names Lindsey Dinkelacker as new girls volleyball coach Scott Springer Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Princeton head coach Mike Daniels was a ﬁ rst-team all-state player at quarterback in 2002, throwing for 2,569 yards and 19 touchdowns and running for 1,387 and 24 more scores. MICHAEL NOYES FOR THE ENQUIRER

Princeton coach Mike Daniels leaves for Army football job Scott Springer Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Editor’s note: Information included refl ects this article’s original publication date – Feb. 23. Visit Cincinnati.com for possible updates. After a little less than four years on the job, Mike Daniels is leaving his alma mater Princeton where he had been the head football coach. The 2003 grad was a Princeton legend as a player and later moved on to play at the University of Cincinnati between 2003-2007. Daniels has accepted a job with Army football in recruiting. At Princeton, Daniels shattered records as a player and has a plaque in the Princeton Hall of Fame. As a quarterback, he was The Enquirer Player of the Year in 2002. That season he threw for 2,569 yards and 19 touchdowns and ran for 1,387 and 24 scores making First Team All-State. With the Bearcats he was a running back, receiver and return specialist. After briefl y working with UC Alumni, he followed former Brian Kelly assistant Jeff Quinn to Buff alo. From there he worked at Statesboro High in Georgia and Kennesaw State before returning to take over the Princeton Vikings in 2017. "What a great time to be a Viking," said Daniels in March 2017. "This is my dream job." Still, after four prep seasons, the college game called again. Daniels had been a candidate for the running backs job at Cincinnati and had recently served the Bengals as part of the NFL Minority Coaching Fellowship program. When West Point called, Daniels answered. "I'm very excited," Daniels said. "This is one of the fi nest institutions in the world." As player Daniels had two receptions in UC's 33-29 win at Nippert over Army in 2003 under Rick Minter. The following year under Mark Dantonio, the Bearcats lost at Michie Stadium at West Point 49-28 with Daniels getting a couple of carries. When Princeton hired Daniels, he held school records in passing yards, passing attempts, touchdown passes in a game, touchdowns in a game, season pass attempts, season completions, total passing yards, single-season touchdowns thrown, single-season touchdowns scored and single-season yards gained. Princeton Athletic Director Joe Roberts allowed Daniels to address his team which was 6-2 in the coronavirusshortened season. He was 4-6 in his fi rst season, 3-7 in 2018 and 6-5 in 2019 when the Vikings boasted three of the top 10 recruits in the area, including No.1, Paris Johnson, now of Ohio State. That team also had Darrion HenryYoung of the Buckeyes and Cincinnati Bearcats linebacker Jaheim Thomas. Roberts is ready to to attract the next coach with top facilities, top talent and a top conference (GMC) full of tough competitors. "We're going to go as quick as we can," Roberts said. "The position is now posted and we're moving as quickly as we can to identify our next head coach." The new head coach will lead the Vikings against Anderson Aug. 19.

MASON - Mason High School has announced that Lindsey Dinkelacker will be its new girls head volleyball coach, pending board of education approval, according to a release from Dan Hilen at Mason. Dinkelacker comes to Mason after guiding the Colerain program for the past two years. This Dinkelacker past season her Cardinal team ﬁ nished with an overall record of 15-7 and a 4-5 mark in the competitive GMC. For her efforts, she was named Co-GMC Coach of the Year for 2020. Dinkelacker is a 2012 graduate of Mother of Mercy High School, where she was a four-year letter winner in volleyball, a ﬁ rst-team all-state selection as a senior, and a second-team allstate selection as a sophomore. Dinkelacker, who also has been the head coach for the Elevation Volleyball Club, went on to play Division I volley-

Mercy's Lindsey Dinkelacker celebrates the Bobcats victory of Holy Cross during the Fall Classic Volleyball Tournament at Mother of Mercy High School, Sept. 23, 2011. TONY TRIBBLE/FOR THE ENQUIRER

ball at Saint Louis University before transferring to the University of Cincinnati. She led the Bearcats to 58 wins

over her three-year tenure in Clifton. "My goal is to continue to grow as a coach and share my knowledge with other young players looking to pursue the game of volleyball," said Dinkelacker. Dinkelacker inherits a Mason girl's program that has dominated the GMC for almost a decade. The Comets have gone fi ve seasons without a league loss. Former Comet head coach, Tiann Myer recently moved to Georgia after the 2020 fall season. Myer concluded her Mason career as the all-time winningest head girls coach with an overall record of 268 wins and 90 losses since assuming the program in 2006. Myer won seven (of the last eight) GMC titles while at Mason including fi ve straight from 2016-2020 and fi nished with a career record of 355 wins and 128 losses. The Comets were District Champions in 2009, 2014, and 2017. Dinkelacker takes over the Comets next fall. Editor’s note: Information included refl ects this article’s original publication date – Feb. 19.

Taft hires former Colerain QB as new head coach Shelby Dermer Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

St. X assistant coach Tyler Williams gets his team pumped up before the game against Cleveland St. Ignatius at St. Xavier High School, Saturday, October, 20 2018. MICHAEL NOYES FOR THE ENQUIRER

WEST END — Taft High School has named Tyler Williams as its next head football coach, the school announced on Twitter Feb. 19. Williams is a 2011 graduate of Colerain High School. With the Cardinals, he was a three-time ﬁ rst-team all-city selection after running for over 3,800 yards and 45 touchdowns. As a senior quarterback in 2010, he ran for 1,654 yards and 20 touchdowns and threw for 11 more en route to being named the Greater Miami Conference player of the year. After playing at the University of Akron, Williams spent time in the Indoor Football League (IFL) for the Wichita

Nighthawks. He was named the IFL's Special Teams Player of the Year in 2017 after becoming the league's single-season all-purpose yards leader with 2,554. Williams previously spent time as the running backs coach at St. Xavier. He will replace Jeff Cargile, who was relieved of his coaching duties in January after fi ve seasons. Cargile was 38-12 during his tenure and a four-time Cincinnati Metro Athletic Conference coach of the year. The Senators fi nished 4-2 last season, winning a playoff game against Dayton Meadowdale. Taft has not missed the playoff s since 2014. In 2019, Taft became the fi rst Cincinnati Public Schools program to win a playoff game since 1993 when it defeated Blanchester in the fi rst round, 35-3.

Louisville Cardinals head coach Chris Mack talks to his team during a break in the action as they take on the Boston College Eagles in the second half at Conte Forum on Jan 2. DAVID BUTLER II/USA TODAY SPORTS

Video of Chris Mack, Eric Wood gets attention of Kentucky Wildcats’ fans Dave Clark Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK

Former Elder High School standout Eric Wood appeared in a video with former St. Xavier High School standout Chris Mack shared on Twitter Feb. 20, and it got the attention of many University of Kentucky fans on social media. Mack is Louisville basketball’s head coach and the former head coach of the Xavier Musketeers. Wood played foot-

ball at UofL before starring as an NFL center for the Buﬀ alo Bills from 2009 to 2017. Mack recently addressed the video of him celebrating the Cardinals’ Dec. 26 win against UK, calling his mask-less appearance “not a good look” and adding that he reached out to Wildcats head coach John Calipari to explain the video’s context, per courier-journal.com’s Shannon Russell. Kenny Payne, currently an assistant coach for the New York Knicks, played

at Louisville and was a member of the Cardinals’ 1986 NCAA championship team. He was an assistant coach at UK from 2010 to 2014 and the Wildcats’ associate head coach from 2014 to 2020. Payne told WDRB’s Rick Bozich that the video “was a joke” and insisted that Wood is a friend of Payne’s who “was just having fun.” Last September, Mack spiced up the UK-UofL rivalry with a video he sent via social media to Wildcats head coach John Calipari.

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Check out who made Ohio’s Southwest District girls basketball all-star teams gan Grudich, West Milton Milton Union; Maria Velazco, Norwood; Destiny Rice, Norwood; Sierra Brinson, New Lebanon Dixie; Rori Hunley, Casstown Casstown Miami East; Abby Stammen, Versailles; Kate Griesdorn, Versailles; Daelyn Staehling, Blanchester

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The Ohio Sportswriter’s Association released its Southwest District All-Stars for Divisions I-IV girls basketball on Feb. 24 with several Greater Cincinnati athletes honored.

Division IV First team

Division I

First team Cotie McMahon, Centerville, 5’11”, JR: 21.2 ppg, 6.8 rpg, 3.4 apg; Amy Velasco, Centerville, 5’6”, Sr: 13 ppg, 5 apg; Jordan Hobbs, Springboro, 6-1, Sr.: 17.2ppg, 7.2rpg, 2.9apg; KK Bransford, Mount Notre Dame, 5’9”, Jr.: 22 ppg, 6 rpg, 5 apg; Laila Phelia, Mount Notre Dame, 5’10”, Sr: 17.6 ppg, 4 rpg; Chance Gray, Lakota West 5’9” Jr.: 26 ppg 3.7 apg 7.3 rpg; Aubryanna Hall, Huber Heights Wayne, 6’0 Sr: 25.4 pts, 7.7 rpg. PLAYER OF THE YEAR:KK Bransford, Mount Notre Dame COACH OF THE YEAR: Jessica Threats, Xenia; Matt Tolliver, Edgewood

Anna Swisshelm, Felicity-Franklin 5’10”, So.: 22.8 ppg, 11.6 rpg; Kenzie Hoelscher, Fort Loramie, 6’0”, Sr.: 13.8ppg , 5.0 rpg; Rylee Sagester New Madison Tri Village 5’6” So.: 17.4 ppg, 4.4 rpg, 3.5 apg.; Morgan Hunt New Madison Tri Village 5’10” So.: 19.9 ppg, 8.8 rpg, 3.8 apg; Emma Hess, Xenia Legacy Christian, 6’0”, Sr.: 18.6 ppg, 7.2 rpg; Kamryn Jordan, Cincinnati Country Day, 5’5”, Sr.: 14.1 ppg, 5.5 rpg; Austy Miller Bradford 5’4” Jr.: 17.8 ppg, 7.7 rpg. PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Emma Hess, Xenia Legacy Christian, Morgan Hunt, New Madison Tri-Village COACH OF THE YEAR: Chris Besecker, Bradford

Second team Abby Carter, Miamisburg, 5’10” Sr.: 12.3 ppg. 8.2rpg; Peyton Nation, Springboro 5-10, Sr: 18.3ppg, 6.1rpg; Marilyn Popplewell, Mason, 5’10” Sr.: 14.8 ppg, 9.2 rpg; Margo Mattes, Mason, 5’11” So.: 16.2 ppg, 5.2 rpg; Terah Harness, New Carlisle Tecumseh, 5’10” Sr,:18 ppg, 7.8 rpg; Kendall Folley, Lebanon, 5’6 Sr.: 17.7 ppg, 4.6 apg; Marissa Jenike, West Clermont 5’9 Sr.: 18.2 pts, 4.0 rpg.

Second team

Mount Notre Dame guard K.K. Bransford (14) drives to the basket during their basketball game against Princeton, Dec. 14, 2020. Bransford made the Division I ﬁ rst team in the Ohio Sportswriter’s Association Southwest District All-Stars. TONY TRIBBLE/FOR THE ENQUIRER

Third team

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Anna Long, Miamisburg, 5’8”, Jr,: 12.8 ppg, 4.1 apg.; Madison Roshelle, Princeton, 5’9” Sr,: 14 ppg, 5 rpg; Macie Taylor, Troy, 5’8” Jr.:. 16.8 ppg, 6.4 rpg; Callie Hunt, Edgewood, 6’1”, Sr.: 11.5 ppg, 7.5 rpg; Alyssa Hargrove-Hall. Huber Heights Wayne 5’9”, Sr.: 15.3 pts; Allie Stockton, Sidney, 5-10, So.: 16.3 ppg, 6.2 rpg; Jordan Rogers, Franklin, 5’9 Sr: 17.0 ppg.

Second team

Honorable mention Alley Haas, Miamisburg; Kensie Black, Franklin; Baylee Jones, Western Brown; Madison Flischel, Western Brown; Zy’Aria Miller, Walnut Hills; Katie Collopy, Walnut Hills; Lauryn Hill, Walnut Hills; Diawna Carter-Hartley, Princeton; Autumn Crockett, Mount Notre Dame; Abby Wolterman, Mount Notre Dame; Brianna Counts, Mount Notre Dame; Daisa Turner, Clayton Northmont; Katie Murphy, Wilmington; Maura Drake, Wilmington; Leah Riley, Sycamore; Emma David, Sycamore; Kieanna Sheridan, Sycamore; Kendall Sherman, Xenia; Reaghan Wakeﬁ eld, Xenia; Kamea Baker, Xenia; Krissy Kowalski, Harrison; Ava Tombragel, Harrison; Jenna Batsch, Loveland; Tess Broermann, Loveland; Nia Kemper, Loveland; Bailey Zerby , Bellbrook; Kelley Grifﬁ n, Bellbrook; Dreann Pryce, Bellbrook; Taylor Scohy Bellbrook; Makenzie Chinn, New Carlisle Tecumseh; Mae Mastin, New Carlisle Tecumseh; Gabrielle Russell, New Carlisle Tecumseh; Sami Bardonaro, Vandalia-Butler; Evan Neely, Vandalia-Butler; Mallory Hullinger, Kettering Fairmont; Paige Frazier, Lemon Monroe; Brooklyn Miltenberger, Lemon Monroe; Ajnique Aldridge, Hamilton; Jayden Issacs, Hamilton; Chloe Butler, Edgewood; Jessica Moore, Edgewood; Rylie Homan, Edgewood; Madison French, Lakota East; Kaylie McKenney, Milford; Maci Rhoades, Beavercreek; Jodee Austin, Fairborn; Karley Johns, Piqua; Jenna Van Schaik Ursuline Academy; Shamia Strayhorn, St. Ursula Academy; Lexee Brewer, Sidney; Kiara Hudgins, Sidney; Anna Thomas, Oak Hills; Danni Krauser, Seton; Daysia Thompson, Winton Woods; Hailey Lehn, Mercy-McAuley; Kylee Heidemann, Mercy-McAuley, Jaiden Bingham, Middletown; Kendal George, Centerville. Kylee Fears, Talawanda

Division II

First team Abigail Dickson, Germantown Valley View, 5’3”, Sr: 10pt, 3.2 apg; Quantaijah Huﬀ man Trotwood-Madison, 5’8 Sr.: 22.5 ppg, 5.4 rpg; Emily Adams, Bishop Fenwick, 6’0”, Sr.: 14.6 ppg, 12.2 rpg; Kylee Sheppard, Roger Bacon, 5’10” Sr: 13.8ppg, 4.0 rpg; Ashleigh Mader, Tipp City Tippecanoe, 5-8 Sr: 13.4 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 5.0 apg; Clarissa Craig, Roger Bacon, 6’3” Sr. C 17 ppg, 8.2 rpg; Sarah Ochs, Dayton Carroll, 5’5”, Jr.: 14.2 ppg. PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Clarissa Craig, Roger Bacon COACH OF THE YEAR: Christina Pen-

COACH OF THE YEAR: Jamar Mosley, Purcell Marian

Azyiah Williams, Ripley-UnionLewis-Huntington, 5’5”, Sr.: 24.3 ppg, 5.3 apg,; Dana Rose Fort Loramie, 6’1”, Sr.: 11.3 ppg 6.0 rpg;.Kathleen Ahner, Xenia Legacy Christian, 5’8”, Sr.: 15.2 ppg. 6 rpg, 5 apg.; Angie Smith, Yellow Springs, 5’6”, Jr.: 22.9 ppg, 5.6 rpg., 5.1 apg.; Mallory Mullen, Springﬁ eld Catholic Central, 6’0”, Jr.: . 14.3 ppg, 13.9 rpg.; Sabrina Delbello, Cincinnati Country Day, 5’7”, Sr.: 13 ppg, 5.8 rpg; Grace Forrest, Mechanicsburg, 5’6”, Sr.: 20.3 ppg, 5.5 rpg.

Claire Henson, Valley View, 5’10” Jr.: 12.6 pg, 6 rpg; Ella Riggs, Indian Hill, 5’9” Jr.: 21.2 ppg, 7.4 rpg; Rachel Wildermuth, Tipp City Tippecanoe, 5’10” Sr,: 8.5 ppg, 5.7 rpg; Jordan Pettigrew Dayton Ponitz Career Technology Center, 5’5, Jr.: . 23.6 ppg 5 apg; Ava Lickliter, Dayton Carroll, 5’6”, Sr. 8.3 ppg, 4.3 apg; Bry Woodard, Summit Country Day, 5’11”, Sr.: 14.7 ppg, 8.4 rpg.; Deborah Davenport, Woodward, 6’2”, Sr.: 17.7 ppg, 10.5 rpg.

Second team

Third team

Torie Utter, Georgetown, 5’6”, Jr.18.4 ppg; Madi Ogden, Williamsburg, 5’7” Sr.: 15.1 ppg, 5.6 rpg; Madelyn Fearon Arcanum 5’7” Jr: 13.5 ppg, 5.2 apg; Alli Stolz, Bethel-Tate, 6’0”, Sr.: 16.2 ppg, 14.2 rpg; Leah Butterbaugh, Waynesville, 5’8”, Sr.: 14.4 ppg, 6.1 rpg; Kenzie Schneeman, Deer Park Sr.: 21 ppg, 4.8 rpg; Bella Answini, Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy, 5’8”, Sr.: 17.8 ppg., 4.4 rpg

Third team

Meghan Downing, New Madison Tri Village, 6’2”, Jr.: 11.3 ppg, 10.3 rpg; Carlie Besecker, Covington, 5’10”, Fr.: 15.7ppg, 9 rpg.; Luisa Christian, Cedarville, 5’9”, Sr.: 11.4 ppg., 7.4 rpg.; Abbigail Peterson, Springﬁ eld Catholic Central, 5’6”, Sr.: 16.5 ppg, 6.0 rpg, 3.6 apg.; Carmen Heuker, Botkins, 5’6”, Jr.: 15.1 ppg, 7.6 rpg, 4.2 apg.; Grace Barnes, Cincinnati Country Day, 5’9”, So.: 13 ppg, 4 apg.; Melody Barnett, Miami Valley Christian Academy, 6’4”, Jr.: 14.9 ppg, 17.8 rpg.

Lauren Legate, Valley View, 5’9” Sr: 11 ppg, 10 rpg.; Sam Rooney, Urbana, 5’2” Sr.: 13.9 ppg, 3.1 apg; Abby Yukon, St, Paris Graham, 5-8 So.: 12.6 ppg,, 6.9 rpg; Raeven Raye Redmond Trotwood-Madison, 5’6”, So.: 13.0 ppg., 5.0 rpg.; Tamira Scott, Hughes, 5’3”, Sr.: 18.0 ppg, 5.1 rpg; Caraline Kernan, Kettering Alter, 5’8”, Jr. G: 8.9 ppg; Noel Weathers, Mount Healthy Jr.: 12 ppg, 5 rpg,

Libby Evanshine, East Clinton, 5’10”, Soph.: 15.4 ppg,, 5.8 rpg; Kiana Dauwe, Williamsburg 5’6”, Sr.:, 14.8 ppg, 3.6 rpg; Liv Reittinger, Tipp City Bethel, 5-6 Sr:- 13.5 ppg,: McKenna Haugabook, Purcell, Marian, 5’10” Jr.: 9 ppg, 6 rpg, 4 apg; Taylor Gray Arcanum 6’ Jr.: 12.1ppg, 8.1 rpg; Jewell Campbell, Camden Preble Shawnee, 5’6”, So.: 14.6 ppg,; Janay Rose, Purcell Marian, Sr. C: 9 ppg, 6 rpg

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Maddi Benjamin, Georgetown; Kaylee Lawson, Carlisle; Sidney Morris, Carlisle; Olivia Potts, Blanchester; Karley Moore, Tipp City Bethel; Claire Henry, Greenon,; Abby West-Springﬁ eld Greenon; Stephanie Altstaetter, Indian Lake; Allison Kinney Indian Lake; Jariah McCrory, Purcell Marian; Emily Hollar West Liberty-Salem; Grace Estes, West Liberty-Salem; Ashley Bee, Bethel-Tate ; Ellie Snyder Jamestown Greeneview; Isabella Cassoni, Waynesville; Madison Jones, West Milton Milton-Union; Jayla Gentry West Milton Milton-Union; Mor-

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Don’t pitch romaine core – grow more salad greens Greek salad Sub any salad green for the romaine, or leave greens out altogether. Ingredients Salad Romaine lettuce, cut up (as much as you like) 3 tomatoes, chunked up small 1 cucumber, diced ⁄ 4 red onion, chopped

Handful Italian parsley, minced Kalamata olives (as many as you like, optional) Feta cheese Sprinkle of dried oregano, scant teaspoon or so Dressing Go to taste on this. Makes more than you need but keeps well in refrigerator. 6 tablespoons olive oil 4 tablespoons red wine vinegar

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Well, I learned some things about myself yesterday when granddaughter Eva and I went sledding here on my little patch of heaven. First, that even at this mature stage in my life as Sitti/Grandma, I still had it in me to go sledding. Second, at this mature stage in my life I should have been more careful. Sledding down the hill on a small circular sled with my legs out in front instead of tucked in was not smart. I thought I’d have time to get tucked in, but that sled went real fast down a real slick hill. Anyway, I wound up airborne for a bit and landed hard, yet safely. That was early afternoon. Thinking about supper l didn’t bring a craving for the grilled cheese sandwiches I had planned to accompany my pot of chicken noodle soup bubbling on the stove. I was hungry for, of all things, salad. Chilled, crispy salad with a base of romaine. So instead of sandwiches, salad was the side. The salad, with Greek ﬂ avors, was good enough to

Pour enough over salad to dress, but don’t drown it. Toss and then sprinkle with feta, olives and oregano.

Romaine lettuce core before, and after, growing in water.

Don Deimling’s delicious salad dressing

share with you. You know me, though. I can’t stop with just one super salad. I’ll also share a cult favorite, from Don Deimling, a friend of blessed memory. Don’s dressing is similar to the yummy sweet, yet tangy “French”/Catalina dressings. One young reader liked it so much she made batches to give, and then to sell.

Make by hand or in blender. The blender results in an ultra creamy dressing. The range of sugar is broad; you add what you like. I’ve changed this up a bit from his original recipe.

Tip:

Ingredients 1 cup vegetable oil ⁄ 3to2⁄ 3 cup sugar

⁄ 3 cup catsup or more to taste (I usually add a bit more)

Don’t pitch romaine core – grow more salad greens! Put the core in a bit of water. Place in bright spot. Change water daily. Soon you’ll see leaves poking through the core. Cut and come again!

Don’s delicious salad dressing photo taken in summer with vegetable garden in background.

⁄ 4 cup clear or cider vinegar or bit more to taste

Salt and pepper to taste

Worcestershire to taste

Just whisk or blend everything together.

1-2 tablespoons minced onion

Instructions

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7 small miracles of Cincinnati: Pandemic Edition made a pie). Most of the produce is sourced from nearby farms, and they always have plenty of locally made foods, including Urban Stead Cheese, Sixteen Bricks bread, Madisono's Gelato and Russo’s Ravioli. Be sure to follow them on Facebook for updates on what’s new and/or in season.

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There’s a lot to be anxious about these days. From politics to the pandemic, most of us have a hard time putting the bad stuﬀ on the back burner, and are (nervously, cautiously, always wearing a mask) trying to enjoy life again. Turning to the simple joys in life is all we've got right now. So, in that spirit, I want to shine a light on some food-related things that, in one way or another, have kept me going during the past several months. Sure, they're small. Some might even say they're a little bit weird, but I want to share these in hopes you might ﬁ nd some joy in them, too.

6) Pony-keg pizza at Trotta’s

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there are several grocery stores closer to my house, my answer was simple: “The classical music.” Instead of acoustically off -kilter pop music interrupted every 10 seconds by an intercom alert about another catastrophe in aisle fi ve, Fresh Market is fi lled with overtures and symphonies that, in these anxious times, serve as escape to an English countryside or a Vienna concert hall. Turns out, the North Carolinabased gourmet food chain has made classical music store policy, going so far as to sell self-branded CDs you can still buy online.

1) The *fake* tree behind The Precinct Maybe it’s the placement on an otherwise desolate intersection of Walworth and Delta in Columbia Tusculum, but the illuminated tree behind the Precinct always lifts my spirits whenever I pass it by. Up until, well, Oct. 14, I thought the tree was real. But when I called Britney Ruby, CEO of Jeff Ruby Culinary Entertainment, she told me that no, her father (that'd be Jeff Ruby) purchased it at a restaurant trade show in Chicago years ago. That its trunk was made of fi berglass; its bright LED-illuminated lights, polyurethane. It didn’t matter. I still love it just the same. I also love that the Precinct, known to many as a splurge for special occasions, off ers up this everyday extravagance for free to people passing by on their way home, perhaps dreaming of a Precinct steak of their own someday soon.

3) The “front porch” stage at Arnold’s To me, the little green stage in Arnold’s courtyard is Cincinnati’s miniature version of the Grand Ol’ Opry. With its old Coke signs and rusted license plates, it evokes a small town front porch where grandpa might strum his banjo on a Sunday afternoon, though its ﬂ oor was salvaged from the venerable Shubert Theatre, its spindles and banisters rescued by numerous dumpster dives by former owner Jim Tarbell in 1970s Over-the-Rhine. At a time when live music is hard to come by, you can still settle down in the

2) The Classical Music at Fresh Market When someone asked me recently why I insisted on shopping at Fresh Market in Oakley, despite the fact that

courtyard, drink a cold beer and think about the good old days (which, in our case, would be 2019).

4) The cookbook collection at Ohio Bookstore Aside from its unparalleled number of tomes on Cincinnati history, the Ohio Bookstore carries around 1,000 vintage cookbooks, including those glorious old church and community cookbooks that are held together with plastic loop bindings and ﬁ lled with forgotten recipes for the cottage hams and green bean casseroles that fed so many Ohio families that came before us.

5) Impulse buying at Madison’s I rarely walk into Madison's at Findlay Market with a speciﬁ c purchase in mind. But I never leave empty handed. There’s always something at this old-timey grocery store that intrigues or inspires me to cook. A package of Rancho Gordo white beans will have me running home to make a time-intensive cassoulet; a jar of Indiana sorghum might lead to a batch of morning pancakes. A single persimmon will have me contemplating making persimmon pie (though I've never even once actually

I know. Everyone’s heard of Trotta's by now. But this old-school pony keg/ pizzeria on the West Side was a revelation for me when I moved back to Cincinnati. As long as you can clear the 8'-2" vehicle height restriction, you can grab a cold six-pack and some of the city's best pizza, as well as hoagies, salads and assorted appetizers, from the comfort of your own car. The fact that Trotta’s was among the ﬁ rst Cincinnati pizzerias to oﬀ er goetta as a topping is all the more reason to love it. If you've never been, pick up some pizza to take home tonight (or do what I do and just devour it in the parking lot).

7) Going back to Senate It’s been more than a decade since Senate, Daniel Wright’s gourmet hot dog shop and bar, opened on Vine Street. Since then, dozens of other restaurants have joined in the chorus of OTR’s restaurant resurrection. But Senate is still as good as ever. After Dan told me there was a new chef at the helm, I went there with a friend last week for lunch. Sitting outside, I couldn't help but worry about OTR’s future; the restaurants that will survive, the one’s that won’t. I ordered a burger and a glass of beer and talked to my friend about what's going on in our lives, both good and bad. As we talked, the seats ﬁ lled up around us. On my second beer, I looked down Vine Street and realized that the leaves on the trees along it had all turned to gold.

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Colerain Township Civic Center Dr: Lcksv Ltd to Intra-national Home Care LLC; $850,000 10911 Gosling Rd: Karwisch Steven B to Hartman Joshua & Toni; $249,900 11459 Pippin Rd: Schon Gregory A @3 to Molden Kelvin B; $233,000 2530 Civic Center Dr: Lcksv Ltd to Intra-national Home Care LLC; $850,000 2676 Banning Rd: Bronnert Brian C Sr Tr to Bronnert Brian C Jr; $48,600 2681 Byrneside Dr: Linz Elizabeth C to Smith Shanika Dawnyell Smith; $149,900 3184 Libra Ln: Ez Home Pros LLC to Snyder Steven E; $150,000 3231 Heritage Square Dr: Marcis Bruce to Timme Jill A; $104,000 3731 Susanna Dr: Demerle Richard F @4 to Archbold Tera J; $229,900 3960 Olde Savannah Dr: Sunderhaus Donna K to

Schuster Terri S; $152,900 5685 Springdale Rd: Its Peachgrove LLC to Parth Real Estate Corporation; $625,000 7620 Cheviot Rd: Schafer Monica to Schafer Craig; $103,500 8148 Sheed Rd: Leamer James M & Rose M to Perry Matthew M & Bethany L; $449,900 8232 Sandy Ln: Djj Holdings LLC to Tri State Homes LLC; $85,750 9824 Capstan Dr: Michaels Cynthia A & Jimmy Ray Michaels to Holten Kelly M; $79,500 9855 Marino Dr: Hicks Maureen L to Macal Maria O De Leon &; $135,000 9917 Dunraven Dr: Neff Paul David to Aci Properties LLC; $60,000

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Billy B & Tricia to Oaks Property Group LLC; $29,100 6032 Connecticut Ct: Lampley Rita to Paredes Ruben Antonio; $158,000 8000 Bobolink Dr: Gholston Darold @ 5 to Oaks Property Group LLC; $71,000

105 Hetherington Ln: Hendrixson Richard R & Suzanne R to Hargrove Renee E; $637,000 190 Garfield Ave: Core Home Constructions Inc to Bah Mamadou; $261,000

Anderson Barry L; $1,000,000 4212 Victorian Green Dr: Krummen Richard H Tr to Dt Scholten LLC; $70,000 4801 Kleeman Green Dr: Gildea Kevin & Tiffany L to Parker Amy J; $290,000 5134 Rybolt Rd: Wichman Joshua R to Darnell Lexia Kai & Antonio Baltazar Ledesma; $125,500 5148 Ralph Ave: Jeannet Frederick M & Teri M to Bell Bryson D; $152,000 5153 Halifax Dr: Reupert Joseph E & Jennifer M to Herzog Nancy, Joseph Franzese & Jane Mcdonald; $465,000 5419 Clover Leaf Ln: Beckelhymer Wayne L & Tabitha A to Carlotta Deborah S &; $70,535 5419 Clover Leaf Ln: Beckelhymer Wayne L & Tabitha A to Carlotta Deborah S &; $70,535 5440 Asbury Lake Dr: Jovanov Dean to Crice Cory E; $128,000 5469 North Glen Rd: Roth Donald C to Roth Donald C; $149,900 5560 Westwood Northern Bv: Gerdes Scott to Greer Olivia; $79,680 7049 Boulder Path Dr: Meade Robert E to Bible Dana John Tr & Nancy Kay Tr; $310,000

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Pattys Pl: Forest Cove LLC to Dennis Ott Builders Inc; $126,470 1794 Linneman Rd: Hartinger Lynne A Tr to Jones Trevor & Alexandra; $156,000 2965 Chardale Ct: Schweizer John R & Richard A Schweizer Co-trustees to Overman Lindsey M & Zachary S; $159,000 3323 Cresentview Ln: Richter Rachel to Noell Ryan; $167,500 3391 Diehl Rd: Resnick Kathleen L Tr to Kelley Daniel G; $124,000 3482 Fiddlers Green Rd: Shahbabian Set Tr to

403 Mcewing Dr: Cristo Homes Inc to Wu Ya Li Tr; $211,900

Forest Park 11756 Elkwood Dr: Gardner James N to 11b Rei Ltd; $60,000 1392 Kalmar Dr: Johnson Ronald & Beverly Griffinjohnson to Springs Erika & Brian Davis; $171,000 1397 Longacre Dr: Russell Dion P to Diomande Issac J; $165,000 1727 Kemper Rd: Holman Charles to Pannunzio Kimberly S; $153,000 1846 Lincrest Dr: Lenzer Henry A & Margaret to Loren Real Estate LLC; $110,000 675 Fairborn Rd: Sfr3-aic LLC to Tribou Tiffany N; $167,000

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Mount Airy 2370 North Bend Rd: Kaanapali Renovations LLC to Cincy Builders Group LLC; $155,000 2370 North Bend Rd: Henry Scott R & Nancy A to Kaanapali Renovations LLC; $135,000 2619 Kipling Ave: Galbraith John W & Angela S to Adams Dennis; $104,000 5346 Colerain Ave: Dooley Earl & Sally Jo to W F Licking LLC; $50,750 5346 Colerain Ave: Doo-

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Mount Healthy 1457 Rambler Pl: Schmitz William H to Fabregas Lauren Rose & Carlos Mguel Bautista; $149,000 1474 St Clair Ave: Mcdaniel Lillian A Tr & Janice E Mallon Tr to Helfrich Eugene; $20,000 7343 Park Ave: Wagner Alex @ 3 to Gline Randy Lee; $123,500

North College Hill 1604 Galbraith Rd: Swewat Ltd to Rfmiller Homes Ltd; $325,000 2001 Sundale Ave: Leytze Joseph & David Andrew Leytze to Reeves Daren & Catherine; $119,900 6827 Bake Ave: Gerrety Michael to 1019 Linn LLC; $25,300 6916 Pinoak Dr: Wright Mark Steven to Robinson Theodore; $85,000 6925 Gloria Dr: Stone Jason W & Sara A to Nsp Homes LLC; $105,000 6941 Clovernook Ave: Grimm Robert W to Mullen John; $135,000 7114 Salmar Ct: Moksin Alex & Margarita to Jackson Latonya & Quivari; $138,000

Reading 1107 Thurnridge Dr: Breaker Jerry R to Bunny Court LLC; $110,000 19 Vine St: Wilson Leah J to Metro Management LLC; $110,000 2460 Galbraith Rd: Fehr Kenneth W to Fehr Christopher; $50,000

Sharonville 11154 Oak St: Mathews Patrick M & Lorraine C Benson to Rp2ham LLC; $193,500 5745 Sovereign Dr: Cm Global Properties to Williams Brittany &; $333,000

Spring Grove Village 759 Mcmakin Ave: Idealogiz Group LLC to Comet Investments LLC; $94,000

Springfield Township 10824 Sprucehill Dr: Eastgate Housing Solutions LLC to Vb One LLC; $65,000 11906 Deerhorn Dr: Armstrong Jeffrey B to Horn Ryan; $153,500 11951 Blackhawk Cr: Rehab Holding 1 LLC to Lara Cipriano; $195,000 12010 Gaylord Dr: Morgan Justin K to Douglas Gary & Lindsey Leonard; $174,500 1514 Springdale Rd: Weed Carol S to Vb One LLC; $65,000 1514 Springdale Rd: Weed Carol S to Vb One LLC; $65,000 1863 Windmill Wy: Midwest Financing Solutions LLC to Amf Investments LLC; $75,513 2273 Roxanna Dr: Statt Christopher J & Patricia J to Fahlbusch John D Tr; $99,000 8406 Beta Ave: Daniels Garry R to Daniels Sarah; $5,107 9089 Fontainebleau Te: Darjee Santosh & Run B Pariyar to Darjee Santosh & Samita Rai; $78,500 938 Valleywatch Dr: Knapp James F & Theresa M to Hauntz Elizabeth & John W Holm; $276,000

St. Bernard 5534 Vine St: Vine Street Investments Inc to Elite Oil Investment LLC; $400,000

Wyoming 157 Linden Dr: Green Jennifer A & Zachary L Tr to Kovatch Robert A & Mary C; $727,500 350 Ridgeway Ave: Grote Daryl Tr to Bancroft Catherine L @3; $180,000 427 Flemridge Ct: Bryan Christopher W & Amanda C to Duffner Cassandra @3; $357,900

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BY MATTHEW STOCK / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ Matthew Stock, 24, who is originally from Dallas, now lives in St. Louis, where he teaches ninth-grade algebra through an AmeriCorpsaffiliated tutoring program. He started constructing puzzles several years ago after he attended a crossword tournament in Boston and ‘‘had a great time chatting with puzzlemakers throughout the afternoon.’’ This is his third crossword (and first Sunday) for The Times. – W.S.

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1 Prayer, e.g. 7 Market index, for short 13 And so on and so forth 19 Actor Ray of ‘‘Field of Dreams’’ 20 Like a certain complex 22 Relative of the mambo 23 High winds 24 Space bars? [Frank Sinatra] 26 Healthful dessert options 28 Overhauled, in a way 29 ‘‘____ making a list . . . ’’ 30 Offering in china . . . or from China 31 ‘‘Top Chef’’ chef ____ Hall 32 Geographical name that comes from the Sioux for ‘‘sleepy ones’’ 35 First prize at the Juegos Olímpicos 36 Sink holes 40 Biting 42 Bird whose males incubate the eggs 44 Mathematical proposition 47 Wet bars? [Gene Kelly] Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 4,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year).

51 Things many people lose as they grow older 53 Big Five studio of Hollywood’s Golden Age 54 ‘‘Thus . . . ’’ 55 St. Louis symbol 56 Strongly endorse 58 Hot place to chill 59 ____ Adlon, Emmy winner for ‘‘King of the Hill’’ 61 Papal name last taken in 1939 63 Smallest state in India 64 Options for outdoor wedding receptions 67 Like some bread and cereal 68 Director Lee 69 Prison bars? [Elvis Presley] 73 Bamboozled 74 Weight right here! 76 ____ Austin, Biden defense secretary 77 Misidentify something, e.g. 78 For the lady 79 Center of a court 81 They’re often parked in parks 82 Relevant 84 Excited cry after scratching a lottery ticket 85 Move a cursor (over) 88 Pride : lions :: ____ : dolphins 89 Hip 92 Cash bars? [Abba]

96 ‘‘Same here’’ 97 ‘‘I mean . . . ’’ 98 What goes right to the bottom? 99 Got around 101 ‘‘Hoo-boy!’’ 102 Gist 104 Last option in a list, maybe 107 ‘‘That feels goo-ooood!’’ 109 Practice 110 Brainy? 112 A+ earner 116 Singles bars? [Robyn] 120 First House speaker from California 122 Not going anywhere 123 Was snoopy 124 Made square 125 Japanese mat 126 ‘‘We got permission!’’ 127 Makes insulting jokes about

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108 Egg: Sp. 111 2016 No. 1 album for Rihanna 112 Pop 113 Really thin type 114 ____ Domini 115 ‘‘I beg of you,’’ e.g. 116 Bit of Morse code 117 Actress de Armas 118 D.C. pro 119 ‘‘Of course!’’ 121 They’re checked at check-ins

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