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Rocky Fork Dam, spittlebugs and ‘Porky’s Revenge’ By Tim Colliver - tcolliver@aimmediamidwest.com Editor’s note — We’re continuing our tradition of taking a look back each Saturday at some of the important, interesting or even odd events as they were reported during the same week throughout the years, along with interesting advertising features from years gone by. This week in 1912, the Hillsboro Dispatch reported the prediction that 65,000 automobiles would be licensed in Ohio, with the state registrar commenting “there seems to be no abatement in the interest in automobiles.�...

As we near the end of the school year, we thought it would be fun to test your knowledge of local history. So, try out the first Our History quiz based on the historical stories that have appeared in The Enquirer over the past few years. As with all good educational tools, if don’t know the answer now, then you can learn something. Good luck! Questions (Scroll after the questions for the answers) 1. In 1924, DeHart Hubbard of Avondale was the first Black athlete to win an Olympic Gold Medal. What event did he win? 2. When Mayor Edward N. Waldvogel died in office in 1954, who was the vice m...

It wasn't Cincinnati's first radio station, but WLW-AM is still the biggest. Cincinnati industrialist Powel Crosley, Jr. began broadcasting WLW-AM over a 20-watt station from his College Hill home on March 2, 1922 – which means that the station is entering its 100th year today. Credit Courtesy WLW-AM WLW-AM wasn't Cincinnati's first commercial radio station, but it is the oldest surviving station from the 1920s. WMH was operated by the Precision Instrument Co. from Dec. 30, 1921, to January 1923.  WMH was sold to Crosley and merged into WLW, says Randy Michaels, the former WLW-AM programme...

John Kiesewetter Pat Barry, who parlayed his Q102 popularity into a Greater Cincinnati radio and TV career spanning five decades, died of COVID-19 Saturday afternoon, Feb. 20. He was 69. The Springfield, Ohio, native burst upon WKRQ-FM’s airwaves in 1974, playing Top 40 hits, and became one of the best known TV/radio personalities in town, thanks to his welcoming smile, loyalty to friends and self-deprecating humor. Pat Barry in the WKRQ-FM (Q102) studio in the early 1980s. Credit Courtesy Brinke Guthrie He liked to joke that he started his career in his hometown "at a really big station...

Topsham selectmen on Thursday set the referendum vote for June, when voters will decide whether to form a commission to consider improvements to how the town government runs.