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District step closer to facilities decision The Tipp City Schools district could be one step closer to choosing a final design for renovating and constructing new schools. The facilities planning committee held a public meeting Nov. 19 at L.T. Ball Intermediate School. After weighing the pros and cons of each design, Option A was the clear favorite among voters, which included district staff and administrators. See page 2
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Election board opens, accepts provisional ballots Will E Sanders
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TROY — Officials with the Miami County Board of Elections opened and accepted provisional ballots cast in the election earlier this month during an emergency meeting Wednesday morning. Of 73 provisional ballots cast the board accepted 58 of them at the meeting, said Drew Higgins, board of elections director. He said the provisional ballots that were not accepted were disquali-
fied for a number of reasons. “They ran the whole gamut,” Higgins said. “Some had their registration canceled, invalid applications, no signatures or a voter that wasn’t registered.” Under state law, provisional ballots can not be opened and tabulated until 10 days have passed from the day of the election. The acceptance of the provisional ballots put to rest the lingering question of whether or not a Fletcher street levy passed or failed. Once
provisional ballots were tallied that issue lost by a total of two votes, so no mandatory recount will be performed. In the state of Ohio a recount is mandatory if the difference in votes is one half of 1 percent. However, should the village of Fletcher request a recount, one will be performed, but the village would need to pay for it. Now the board plans on certifying the election results at their upcoming monthly meeting Friday, which could be interesting due to a tied race for the third seat
of the Bradford Board of Election. The winner of that race is still not known. Carolyn Smith and Stanley Roberts Jr. are vying for that seat, but as it stands now the two are tied. Due to Bradford’s geographic location, voters from Miami, Darke and Shelby counties voted in the election for that race and results had to be compiled from each county, Higgins said. As it stands right now, the race is a tie, and will remain that way, unless provisional ballots from
Darke County change the vote total. Provisional ballots cast in Darke County are expected to be opened and accepted today. If a tie remains after that both candidates will be asked to meet one another at the board of election office at 2 p.m. Friday when the winner will be decided by either casting lots or through a coin flip, which is how ties are settled in accordance with state election law. This year’s general election had a voter turnout of 20.7 percent.
Tipp man indicted for child porn Staff Reports
Delwiche to be honored
The Troy Area Chamber of Commerce will honor Troy High School head guidance counselor Paul Delwiche as the Outstanding Educator Award at tonight’s recognition banquet. The Outstanding Educator award is presented in cooperation with the Business Advisory to Education Committee of the Troy Chamber. The award recognizes a professionally certified educator residing in/or workAnthony Weber | Troy Daily News ing in the Troy area and Kroger General Manager Dan Eyler places boxed foods in the Shared Harvest food barrel at the locawho has demonstrated an tion in Troy. exceptional commitment to the field of education. See page 5.
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Food network Troy Kroger helping put food on table for those in need
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TROY — In a dark, late night jam session, Daytrotter recording studio captured unique jam sessions with members of the Gentlemen of the Road band members, including Mumford and Sons, on the Troy High School auditorium stage during their Labor Day tour stop. Sean Moeller, founder of Daytrotter. com’s recording studio session vault, said it was a great experience to travel to Troy from Rock Island, Illinois to capture unique combinations of all the band members on the tour at the high school. The website recently posted a video of Marcus Mumford and Justin Hayward-
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Troy BOE thanks community for support Approves purchase of two new buses
2, posts food barrels at Kroger locations in Melanie Yingst Miami, Montgomery, Staff Writer Logan, Preble, Clark, myingst@civitasmedia.com Clinton, Shelby, Darke TROY — Troy City and Green counties. Food For Friends is backed by Schools administrators and board of education See FOOD | 2 members publicly thanked the community for its support in passing its 1.1mills permanent improvement levy on Monday. “We are very appreciative of the voters in the district,” said board memYoung of their performance at the high ber Joyce Reives. Superintendent Eric school singing “Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright,” which was recorded on Aug. Herman also took the 30 at Troy High School’s auditorium. time to recognize the “There was nobody in the high school efforts of the district’s — it was totally dead,” Moeller said. maintenance staff and its “We sneak guys past the barriers and director Tytus Jacobs. get them up to the school and made Herman cited several some incredible, creative stuff.” incidences of when he has Moeller said songs will periodically had to call upon the help be released with various singers in vari- of the district’s mainteous band combinations throughout the nance team during late next month on the studio’s website. night boiler mishaps and “We’ll have all the audio up by Friday,” other issues. Moeller said of the recording session “They make sure from the tour. everything stays in good Moeller said the informal recording shape,” Herman said. session was a “off the cuff” ordeal as musi- “This is why our buildings look the way that See RELEASED | 2 they do.” Jacobs also thanked the community
GOTR recording sessions from Troy stop released Melanie Yingst
TIPP CITY — A Tipp City man was one of eight indicted for sexual exploitation of children charges across state lines on Nov. 8. U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite Jr. announced that Foster, 44, was charged with distribution and receipt of child pornography, which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years and a maximum sentence of 20 years. The indictment alleged that he “did knowingly distribute/recieve, and attempt to distribute/receive, visual depictions … that had been mailed, shipped and transported in intersate and foreign commerce, by any means, including by computer.” The visual depictions were alleged to have involved the use of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. The document stated that Foster had engaged in such acts within the eastern district of Lousiana and elsewhere from between or about June 14, 2012, to Feb. 22, 2013. In a recent television interview, Foster declared that he was embarassed and sorry for looking at the websites that he did, but that he quit when he found out they weren’t legal. Foster said the courts had “gone overboard” because he didn’t try to sell pornography and has not “done things with little kids.” Polite said a federal Grand Jury also handed down indictments for: Daniel Devor, 39, of Brunswick, Ga.; Aung (Michael) Gaw, 25, of Fremont, Ca.; Sean Jabbar, 32, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Christopher Jamieson, 30, of Douglasville, Ga.; Andrew Korpal, 29, of Granger, Ind.; Nicholas Saine, 27, of Seattle, Wash.; and Stanley Zdon III, 27, of Tuckerton, N.J.
for support of the levy. The board approved to purchase two new school buses for the district. The 72-passenger buses were purchased from Cardinal Bus Sales for $178,928. B oard members reviewed several board policy changes including: executive session, special use of school buses, professional staff contracts and compensation plans for administrators, cocurricular and extracurricular activities, interscholastic extracurricular eligibility, promotion and retention of students, early entrance to kindergarten, admission of students from non-chartered or home schooling, student fee, fines and charges and positive behavioral interventions and supports in regards to restraint and seclusion. Board members Doug Trostle and Stephen Lucas were not present at the meeting. For more information, visit www.troy.k12.oh.us
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