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The News was named “Newspaper of the Year” in its division at the Osman C. Hooper Non-Daily Newspaper Competition, presented by the Ohio News Media Association, or ONMA.

RIPLEY, Ohio – During the Jan. 23 Village of Ripley council meeting discussions were held about the proposed 2024 budget cut to the Ripley Police Department.

If you’re like me, I read my paper, then pull out the sales circulars to see what deals I can find. I get my shopping list together and hang it on the…

After the Civil War, Henrietta Wood made history by pursuing an audacious lawsuit against the man who’d kidnapped her back into slavery. Yet the story was lost to her own family.

She sued her enslaver for reparations and won. Her descendants never knew. Sydney Trent, The Washington Post Feb. 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5Danielle Blackman, a descendant of Henrietta Wood, holds a photo of Arthur Simms Jr and his sister Neata, Wood's grandchildren.photo for The Washington Post by Julie Bennett.Show MoreShow Less 2of5Gerard Brandon, one of the largest slaveholders in the South, bought Henrietta Wood and took her to his house, Brandon Hall, on the Natchez Trace.Library of Congress.Show MoreShow Less 3of5 4of5Danielle Blackman, a descendant of Henrietta ...