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🌱 Fairfield school income tax levy rejected by voters

Fairfield, Ohio Patch AM: a 4 min read

Greetings Fairfield! Your go-to source for what's happening in town is here. Stay in the loop and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Fairfield school income tax levy rejected by voters
  • Fairfield’s holiday parade brings tree lighting and fireworks November 21
  • Two Fairfield gas stops listed at $3.29 a gallon

Also on today's calendar: 12 Angry Jurors, presented by Fairfield Footlighters and 7 more events.

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: A t-storm late in the p.m., with a high of 67 and low of 45 degrees.
  • Thursday: Cooler with a few showers, temps: high: 52, low: 33.
  • Friday: Mostly cloudy and chilly, with a high of 43 and low of 31 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Analysis: Most local school levies rejected, 54% of levies across Ohio passed (daytondailynews.com) — Fairfield City Schools’ proposed five-year, 1.25% earned income tax lost with 52% voting against it and 48% in favor. The measure was projected to raise about $23.1 million annually, making Fairfield one of several regional districts whose funding requests failed even as 54% of school levies passed statewide.
   

2. Your guide to holiday tree lightings starting this weekend (daytondailynews.com) — Fairfield’s holiday celebration is scheduled for 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, at 301 Wessel Drive, with a parade, food trucks, children’s activities and live reindeer. A tree lighting and fireworks at Village Green Park will follow the parade, part of a season of celebrations across southwest Ohio.
   

3. Where to find the lowest local gas prices (springfieldnewssun.com) — Two Fairfield stations listed regular gas at $3.29 a gallon in GasBuddy’s Nov. 10 snapshot: United Dairy Farmers on Tylersville Road and Thorntons on Dixie Highway. Both were below Ohio’s reported $3.76 average, though the regional list included a lower $3.19 price at Costco in Liberty Township.
   

4. Woman pulled from burning vehicle by local officers and bystanders (local12.com) — Fairfield officers and bystanders pulled a trapped woman from a burning car after a Nov. 5 crash, police said. Two Fairfield officers and a Hamilton officer helped carry her to safety moments before flames engulfed the passenger compartment. Police have not released her condition or the crash's cause.
   

5. Cincinnati Financial CEO Stephen Spray Transfers 55,000 Shares to Spouse for Estate Planning (kalkinemedia.com subscription) — Cincinnati Financial CEO Stephen Spray gave his spouse 55,000 company shares for estate planning, according to a securities filing. The Nov. 6 transfer was a gift, not a sale. Spray retains 17,731 shares directly and reports the gifted shares as indirectly held through his spouse in the Fairfield-based company.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

    Wednesday November 11
  • Hanover Township Veterans Day Luncheon →
    Hanover Reserve, 1905 Hamilton Oxford Rd, Hamilton
    11:00 am
  • Veterans Recognition Event
    Buter Tech Aviation Center, 1902 Germantown Rd., Middletown
    6:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Update: FOUND.
    Thanks. Woodside dr and Pinnacle Peak. Wildwood area. Please call 513-301-9204 if you see our baby. He’s not an outdoor cat. He’s a year old. Afraid… (Nextdoor Southeast Fairfield)
  • Ruthie has my biggest football player grandson, not he oldest wrapped around her little finger.
    She pulled Mason’s hair until he would put down his phone and play with her. She loves her May-May! Always take time to spend time with your family… (Nextdoor The Oaks at Woodridge)
  • Busy Bees North America posted a job opening for Child Care Lead Teacher in Fairfield. Apply here.
  • Panera posted a job opening for Team Member 5:00am-1:30pm in Fairfield. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Fairfield here.

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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