Update: The Clear Fork Valley Local School District Board of Education has changed the date of its next regular meeting. That meeting will now be held Sept. 20 at 6:30 at the high school library media center. Those interested in serving on the Clear Fork Valley Board of Education should contact the district treasurer’s office […]
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Meet Jon Fletcher, Bellville’s new police chief
BELLVILLE — Chief Jon Fletcher can still remember when the entire Bellville Police Department was just a small room in city hall. It was 2005. He was fresh out of the academy and had taken his first law-enforcement job with his hometown department. He’s has been there ever since. Last month, Fletcher swore to serve and […]
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Bellville Medal of Honor recipient’s grave to be honored 148 years after death
BELLVILLE –– U.S. Army Pvt. John F. Rowalt received the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1870 for his bravery during the Indian Campaigns in the Arizona Territory. The Bellville native died from smallpox five years later in Cincinnati and has been buried in an unmarked grave in northern Kentucky for the past 148 years, a […]