Here's your local news at a glance for Friday, the 30th of May.
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🏘️ Community
Oxford Free Press, a local nonprofit news organization, will celebrate its website's one-year anniversary in two weeks and its print edition's one-year mark in six weeks after publishing over 600 online stories and distributing more than 60,000 copies.
The paper is asking readers to submit feedback today to help shape its future reporting — a step meant to ensure local voices guide the news.
🎓 Education
Dr. Cricket Meehan of Miami University explained in a recent podcast how pandemic isolation increased mental health challenges for K-12 students and left them without key social support.
Schools are now using a student assistance program and an AI tool for suicide prevention — efforts that also help support teachers and build school-wide resilience.
Miami University has formed committees for 18 new MiamiTHRIVE initiatives—including the creation of a polytechnic campus—after President Gregory Crawford detailed the plans in a spring update at Hall Auditorium.
More than 1,500 faculty, staff and students worked together to shape the university’s strategic improvements.
🏈 Sports
The Miami RedHawks baseball team won the MAC title on May 25 with three wins and now will travel to Knoxville to face the University of Tennessee Volunteers at 6 p.m. today—marking their first NCAA tournament appearance in 20 years.
🎉 Oxford Events
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Oxford Wine & Craft Beer Festival
2-10 p.m. — Oxford Memorial Park — See website for ticket info — Sip on fine wines and craft beers while enjoying artisan displays and live performances.
🏠 Oxford Real Estate
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