A look back at 2020 January-March: High hopes, then a pandemic
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An historic building in Blanchester was destroyed by an overnight fire. (Photo by JoJo Van Winkle.)
The Blanchester High School boys basketball team, co-champions of the SBAAC National Division, and fans celebrate going 21-1 on the year before finally falling to Fenwick in the sectional tournament.
An historic building in Blanchester was destroyed by an overnight fire. (Photo by JoJo Van Winkle.)
The Wilmington High School girls basketball program won its third straight SBAAC American Division basketball championship at 9-1 in the division and shared top honors with Western Brown. From left are, front row, Sophie Huffman, Jasmine Jamiel, Zoey Moore, Sami McCord, Taylor Noszka, Keasia Robinson; middle row, coach Jermaine Isaac, Caroline Diels, Maura Drake, Karlie Morgan, Katie Murphy, Sydney McCord, Aeris McDaniel; back row, head coach Zach Williams, Josephine Williams, coach Dusty James.
The Dawson’s Creek actor and the Queen And Slim actress welcomed a daughter in April after tying the knot last year.
The couple have not shared details about their child but Turner-Smith has revealed she gave birth at home following a four-day labour.
She told British Vogue: “We had already decided on a home birth, because of concerns about negative birth outcomes for black women in America – according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the risk of pregnancy-related deaths is more than three times greater for black women than for white women, pointing, it seems to me, to systemic racism.