‘Standing firm in the truth’
By Jeff Gilliland - jgilliland@timesgazette.com
An estimated crowd of more than 200 people turned on a late September Saturday last year in front of the Highland County Courthouse in Hillsboro for a National Unity Prayer event. A similar event organized by the same group of women will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 1 at the courthouse.
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On a picturesque Saturday evening late last September more than 200 people gathered on the Highland County Courthouse lawn in Hillsboro for the inaugural United In Prayer event. Now the same women’s Bible study group that organized the first event has planned another one for 6 p.m. Saturday, May 1.
Apr 15, 2021
Two people have been charged as the result of a prank in Hillsboro from September of 2020.
According to a press release, Hillsboro Police on Wednesday, April 14th charged Tristan M. Nicely, 23, of Hillsboro, and Makayla A. Jordan, 21, of Lynchburg, with one count each of Criminal Mischief.
The charge stems from the September 26th , 2020 incident where dish soap was poured into the decorative fountain at the Highland County Courthouse, causing the fountain to overflow with bubbles.
An investigation led officers to Jordan and Nicely, who admitted to pouring the soap into the fountain.
Ralston sentenced Monday
By Tim Colliver - tcolliver@aimmediamidwest.com
Shown from left, attorney J.D. Wagoner and Alicia Ralston during her sentencing hearing Monday in Highland County Common Pleas Court.
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One of the two women involved in the September 2020 escape attempt by Nickolaus Garrison, 34, Hillsboro, received a three-year community control sentence Monday by visiting Judge Daniel Hogan in Highland County Common Pleas Court.
The 18-month prison sentence that Alicia M. Ralston, 32, Chillicothe, could have received on the complicity to escape conviction was suspended by Hogan, with instructions in the courts conditions of supervision ordering that she continue in her efforts to obtain her GED, and successfully complete substance abuse disorder treatment through the Georgia Harris house and all recommended aftercare.
Apr 15, 2021
Two people have been charged as the result of a prank in Hillsboro from September of 2020.
According to a press release, Hillsboro Police on Wednesday, April 14th charged Tristan M. Nicely, 23, of Hillsboro, and Makayla A. Jordan, 21, of Lynchburg, with one count each of Criminal Mischief.
The charge stems from the September 26th , 2020 incident where dish soap was poured into the decorative fountain at the Highland County Courthouse, causing the fountain to overflow with bubbles.
An investigation led officers to Jordan and Nicely, who admitted to pouring the soap into the fountain.
Fountain pair nabbed
By Jeff Gilliland - jgilliland@timesgazette.com
This picture from September of last year shows the fountain on the Highland County Courthouse square in Hillsboro overflowing with soap bubbles.
Times-Gazette file photo
A man and woman have been arrested in connection with a September 2020 incident that caused the new fountain on the Highland County Courthouse Square in Hillsboro to be shut down.
The Hillsboro Police Department said that on Wednesday a police officer obtained information about the Sept. 26, 2020 incident when two subjects allegedly poured dish soap in the fountain causing it to overflow with bubbles.
The incident required city maintenance crews to clean and drain the fountain the following day.