AROUND XENIA '23

New B&B Caboose coming

October 3  

The first of maybe 3 cabooses are being moved onto the property on Hill Street near South Detroit Street.   The owner is currently trying to get city permits  .... 

CLIFTON Music & Arts Festival

August 12  

Updates on some recent construction around town

Grand stands at the XHS football field are almost complete

Visitor's stands on east side

Home stands on west side 

The new Interpretive Center in Oldtown is getting close 

On Xenia's west side new buildings are going up

Fifth Third Bank Branch

Premier Health

Not sure which is which, but there is supposed to be a Duncan Donuts, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen and a Dairy Queen sometime soon

Located between Lowes and Walmart there will be a new Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant

August 11

The building rising in the background of this picture is the new John Wooden Family Fieldhouse for Athletes In Action  .   In the foreground is a girls soccer match between Xenia High School and the Legacy Christian Academy  .     The Legacy girls won 9-0  .  

Artist's rendering of the completed complex situated at what was previously the Ohio Soldiers & Sailors Orphans Home.

Newspaper article  ....   Click here

July 29

Stadium bleachers going up on the west side of field; press box is complete.

The previous Arrowood  Elementary school was purchased by Summit Academy in 2012  ...   Teaching Alternative Learners the school is expanding into a new building this fall.

Voters approved a new Warner Middle School to replace the current building  ...   construction has started

Current building

New building 

July 19

Update on Xenia Football Stadium renovations

New Stadium lights

New Stadium Bleachers have arrived

ready to be installed

The "Angels Pass Park" in Beavercreek

Memory of 2 mothers and 8 girl scouts killed at the

train crossing on Factory Road   March 18  1959

Article  -  Click here

June 16  2023

Cruise-In at the Legacy Retirement Village

1956 Chevrolet Delivery

1959 Ford  F-100

1934 3-Window Ford

2008 Boss Hoss

With a Corvette  V-8 engine!

May 19   2023

The weekend of May 19 to May 21 was HAMVENTION!!

This event for Radio Amateurs used to be held at the Hara Arena in Dayton

but moved to the Greene County Fairgrounds after Hara was closed and demolished. 

Voice of America Museum booth ...

voamuseum.org

New equipment for sale from DX Engineering with prices up to $7,800  ....  HA8DU is a Hungarian company   ...  

A booth advertising membership into the Radio Society of Great Britain ... 

rsgb.org

Emergency services provided by Xenia Fire Division and Xenia Township Fire.

A 1960's vintage shortwave receiver made by Hallicrafters Company .

Amateur Radio Emergency Services equipment from Shelby County Ohio

Microscopes for sale .... $45 ...

May 15   2023

Renovation of the Xenia Football Stadium has begun with a completion date targeted to be completed in time for football this fall. 

Stadium as it exists currently 

Click here for Xenia Gazette article

Picture from Xenia Schools ..  Home stands will be moved to west side of field with new stadium lights

March 12   2023

Site of the Old Town School

where a new Interpretive Center is being built

March 4   2023

Hyde Road Bridge, Yellow Springs