Germantown Ohio Directory

DAYTON — The list of companies committed to participating in a July 14-17 aerospace trade and technology show affiliated with the Vectren Dayton Air Show reads like a Who’s Who accounting of the business.

The companies include Lockheed Martin Corp., Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Co., Textron Systems, General Dynamics and others, along with major organizations from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

The United States Air, Trade and Technology Expo offers a chance for Dayton to shine, as the organizers dust off and revive the aerospace trade and technology show that was first started in conjunction with the Dayton Air Show in the 1990s but faded away. . . .

Two separate wrecks today within minutes of each other sent five people to area hospitals, law enforcement officials said.

About 3:40 p.m., a 61-year-old woman and a female child had to be extricated from a Cadillac that apparently was forced into a ditch after a Ford Taurus sideswiped it near Siebenthaler Avenue and Philadelphia Drive, Montgomery County sheriff’s Sgt. . . .

XENIA — There was no shortage of drama at the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphanage, later the Ohio Veterans Children’s Home (1869-1998).

Thousands of kids grew up there. . . .

TROY — Owners of pet chickens living in a residential area near downtown were told by the city this week to remove them by July 15, or possibly face legal action.

Robert and Heather Dorsten of Race Street went to Miami County Common Pleas Court last year after the city Board of Zoning Appeals denied their request for a variance that would have allowed them to keep chickens Lucy and Dottie as pets.

Judge Jeffrey Welbaum ruled April 15 that the city acted within its power to ban chickens from a residential area.

The Dorstens chose not to appeal his ruling and said by e-mail Thursday, July 2, they have been working to “rehome” Lucy and Dottie plus a third chicken, Priscilla, they had placed in a new home last year but recently returned.

The couple also is considering asking city residents, in a ballot initiative, to decide whether pet chickens should be allowed in town.

The city’s letter dated Tuesday, June 30, was sparked by a anonymous complaint. . . .