Preble County

The Maimon Memorial Garden has provided hundreds of pounds of food to The Foodbank, Inc., and Miami Valley Meals. The garden also provides educational opportunities for high school students and visitors.

Montgomery County Commissioners unanimously decided to redirect $1 million from the 2025 Economic Development/Government Equity fall funding cycle to support operations at The Foodbank, Inc., which serves Montgomery, Preble and Greene counties.

The van seats 15 passengers and will help the Foodbank meet the growing need for food assistance across Montgomery, Greene and Preble counties.

Map the Meal Gap's 2023 data shows about a 1% increase in food insecurity in The Foodbank's coverage area around the Dayton region.

Five Rivers MetroParks is working with The Foodbank Inc to offer garden kits with seeds and starter plants at mobile distributions this spring.

The Collaboratory is partnering with national nonprofit Undue Medical Debt to eliminate medical debt for 13,000 qualifying residents. To do so, they use the debt purchasing system to their advantage.

The barn fire in Darke County killed more than 200,000 pullet chickens on Feb. 4. More than 30 crews worked together to extinguish the fire.

The Foodbank serves Montgomery, Greene and Preble counties. As a mostly rural county, many Preble residents face hunger and have less access to grocery stores and transportation.

Hunger and food insecurity rose in Montgomery, Greene and Preble counties after pandemic relief programs ended in Ohio in 2022.

The Preble County deputy was involved in a head-on collision at 4 a.m. on Monday.

MedShip LLC, a medical supplies company, is demolishing blighted properties to establish its headquarters in Camden, Ohio in Preble County.

Most counties in Southwest Ohio are under a Level 2 snow emergency.