This year, grim memories of the Xenia tornado turn 50. To mark the occasion, the News talked to several dozen current and former local residents who shared their stories of that fateful and fearful day, what came after and how they were and continue to be affected.
75 years ago, Antioch enrollment was up to 1,140; 50 years ago, federal narcotics agents seized drugs valued at $100,000, and Village Council debated bicycle safety to little avail; 25 years ago, contaminants were found in local wells near Vernay Labs.
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Grote s Dari-Korner at the intersection of Corry St. and Xenia Ave. (YS News archive photo from 1975)
News from the Past
10 years ago: 2011
Antioch hires first faculty, gains on accreditation. “Antioch College continues its forward motion toward admitting new students next fall, announcing this week that the college has hired its first three tenure-track faculty members. And last week, the revived college received notice that it successfully jumped the first hurdle on the road to gaining accreditation.”
Bill Hooper dies. “William Hooper, well-known contractor, former Antioch and Miami Township trustee and local activist, died March 25. He was 91 years old. … Bill was the developer of Westgate [Ridgecrest & Robinwood Drives and Keystone Court], the second integrated housing development in the United States, in the late 1950s.”