AT&T announced an expansion of its 4G LTE wireless network to the Wilmington area. Officials from AT&T and the state legislature gathered to announce the investment in faster infrastructure. 4G LTE provides faster internet speeds, reliability, and new devices compared to 3G. The expansion is part of AT&T's ongoing project to enhance its networks across the region.

1. Wilmington News Journal NEWS/WEATHER Tuesday, September 30, 2014 5
From left, AT&T Retail Account Executive Russ Gabbard, State
Sen. Bob Peterson, Wilmington City Council President Cindy
Peterson and AT&T External Affairs Director Mark Romito gather
at the AT&T retail store on Rombach Avenue in Wilmington on
Monday to announce AT&T’s investment in faster 4G LTE wireless
network infrastructure in the Wilmington area.
Today's Weather
Local 5-Day Forecast
Tue
9/30
75/48
Sunny along with a
few clouds. High
near 75F. Winds
WNW at 5 to 10
mph.
Sunrise Sunset
7:30 AM 7:19 PM
Wed
10/1
77/54
Times of sun and
clouds. Highs in the
upper 70s and lows
in the mid 50s.
Sunrise Sunset
7:31 AM 7:17 PM
Thu
10/2
84/61
A few clouds. Highs
in the mid 80s and
lows in the low 60s.
Sunrise Sunset
7:32 AM 7:16 PM
Fri
10/3
71/46
A few thunderstorms
possible. Highs in
the low 70s and lows
in the mid 40s.
Sunrise Sunset
7:33 AM 7:14 PM
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Sat
10/4
60/38
Partly cloudy. Highs
in the low 60s and
lows in the upper
30s.
Sunrise Sunset
7:34 AM 7:13 PM
Toledo
61/50 Cleveland
62/53
Cincinnati
79/51
Columbus
72/50
Ohio At A Glance
Area Cities
City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.
Akron 64 45 t-storm Columbus 72 50 pt sunny Marion 65 47 t-storm
Alliance 69 52 t-storm Coshocton 70 51 t-storm Mt. Vernon 67 49 t-storm
Ashtabula 67 54 t-storm Defiance 64 49 cloudy New Philadelphia69 51 t-storm
Athens 79 50 t-storm Findlay 65 50 t-storm Newark 71 48 rain
Bellefontaine 66 48 t-storm Fostoria 63 48 t-storm Portsmouth 82 54 mst sunny
Bowling Green 61 49 t-storm Gallipolis 83 53 mst sunny Sandusky 62 51 t-storm
Cambridge 75 52 t-storm Lancaster 74 49 rain Toledo 61 50 cloudy
Chillicothe 80 49 rain Lima 65 51 t-storm Troy 75 45 pt sunny
Cincinnati 79 51 mst sunny Mansfield 62 47 t-storm Xenia 75 47 pt sunny
Cleveland 62 53 t-storm Marietta 79 54 pt sunny Youngstown 69 50 t-storm
National Cities
City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond. City Hi Lo Cond.
Atlanta 82 62 mst sunny Houston 88 74 t-storm Phoenix 85 62 sunny
Boston 64 57 cloudy Los Angeles 83 62 pt sunny San Francisco 72 60 pt sunny
Chicago 61 49 pt sunny Miami 88 76 t-storm Seattle 63 52 pt sunny
Dallas 90 72 pt sunny Minneapolis 66 55 pt sunny St. Louis 84 61 mst sunny
Denver 71 48 mst sunny New York 74 61 mst sunny Washington, DC 82 61 pt sunny
Moon Phases
New
Sep 24
First
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Full
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Last
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UV Index
Tue
9/30
5
Moderate
Wed
10/1
6
High
Thu
10/2
6
High
Fri
10/3
5
Moderate
Sat
10/4
5
Moderate
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Index showing the need for greater
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Daugherty it might be wise for par-ents
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Guilty job duties. The criminal
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village funds to be spent
on purchases and other
expenses that reportedly
did not benefit the vil-lage.
In particular, investiga-tors
say Robinson signed
checks made payable to
her son, James R. Rob-inson,
who held the job
of general laborer with
the village. He reportedly
did not perform work for
the benefit of the village,
and previously received
a nine-year prison term
for public corruption and
manufacturing meth.
Rayetta Robinson also
is accused of signing
checks to Patience Com-berger,
former village
administrator, who alleg-edly
did not perform her
case against Comberger
remains unresolved.
The restitution amount
owed by Rayetta Rob-inson
also includes the
purchases of two lap-tops
using the village’s
credit account at Staples,
according to a case docu-ment.
It’s alleged the lap-tops
were for Robinson’s
personal use and did not
benefit the village.
At the plea hearing on
Monday, Robinson, 56,
said other members of vil-lage
council approved the
various bill payments in
question.
“I didn’t feel at the time
that I was doing anything
wrong because, as I said,
when I had other council
members saying, ‘Yea,
let’s pay the bills,” she
said.
“It upsets me the Rob-insons
were the only ones
singled out,” said Robin-son.
She also said she was
“reluctantly agreeing to
the house arrest part” of
the recommended sen-tence.
She said she can’t
walk and is already lim-ited
in travel.
Robinson’s mother,
former Martinsville Vil-lage
Council president
Carole Robinson, already
has been sentenced in the
government corruption
case. Carole Robinson
was placed under house
arrest for one year, fined
$1,000 and ordered to
pay $7,046 restitution to
the village.
Also charged in the
matter are former village
fiscal officer Sheri Watson
and Comberger.
Gary Huffenberger can be reached
at 937-382-2574, ext. 2512 or on
Twitter @GHuffenberger.
tion at Cedarville Univer-sity,
who is also an NFL
concussion official. He
says that college leagues,
like the NCAA, have an
additional requirement.
They make the player
wait seven days before
resuming practices or
playing in games. That
rule doesn’t apply to Ohio
high school or youth
league players, but I think
to follow it anyway.
Concussions can lead to
serious problems later in
life.
When your child is
pulled from a game for
concussion symptoms, the
sports league has to tell
you in writing what steps
are required to seek medi-cal
treatment and release.
The best way to pre-vent
concussions is prop-er
training and coaching.
Good coaches teach ath-letes
how to prevent get-ting
hit in the head, and
how to play so they are
not the cause of someone
else’s concussion.
For more information
on concussion symptoms
and the “Return to Play”
law, as well as links to
free training, go to www.
healthy.ohio.gov/vipp/
concussion.
Mike Daugherty is a general-practice
attorney in Wilmington.
If you have a question you would
like him to address in a future
column, send an email to mike@
clintoncountylawyer.com. (He
cannot respond in this column
to any questions about a specific
case.)
AT&T 4G LTE expands
to Wilmington
Staff report
WILMINGTON —
AT&T has expanded its
4G LTE network to the
Wilmington area, bring-ing
customers the latest
generation of wireless
network technology.
AT&T launched 4G LTE
in Cincinnati in Sep-tember
2012, and this
expanded coverage is
part of its ongoing rollout
across the area, according
to a news release.
“AT&T’s investment is
an example of the com-pany’s
overall commit-ment
to this area,” said
State Sen. Bob Peterson.
“This enhancement of the
wireless infrastructure in
Clinton County provides
an important driver of
economic growth, allow-ing
businesses in our
communities to compete
on a level field.”
According to AT&T,
4G LTE provides:
• Faster speeds. LTE
technology is capable of
delivering mobile Inter-net
speeds up to 10 times
faster than 3G. Custom-ers
can stream, down-load,
upload and game
faster than ever before.
• Reliability. AT&T
has a reliable 4G LTE
network.
• Cool new devices.
AT&T offers several
LTE-compatible devices,
including new AT&T 4G
LTE smartphones and
tablets.
• Faster response time.
LTE technology offers
lower latency than other
wireless technologies,
which means faster pro-cessing
time to move data
through a network, such as
initiating a web page or file
download. Lower latency
helps to improve services
like mobile gaming, two-way
video calling and tele-medicine.
• More efficient use of
spectrum. Wireless spec-trum
is a finite resource,
and LTE uses spectrum
more efficiently than other
technologies, creating
more space to carry data
traffic and services and to
deliver a better network
experience.
This expansion is part
of AT&T’s Project Velocity
IP, a three-year invest-ment
plan announced in
fall 2012 to expand and
enhance its IP broadband
networks. Through this
investment, AT&T said it
is supporting its custom-ers’
growing desire for
high-speed Internet access
and new mobile, app and
cloud-based services.
As part of Project VIP,
AT&T plans to add macro
cell sites nationwide by
year-end 2015, as well
as deploy small cells and
add distributed antenna
systems to increase the
density of its wireless
network, according to the
release.
“We continue to see
demand for mobile
Internet skyrocket, and
our 4G LTE network in
Wilmington responds to
what customers want from
their mobile experience
— more, faster, reliably,
on the best devices,” said
AT&T External Affairs
Director Mark Romito.
“We’ll continue to invest
and transform our infra-structure
in response to
the demands of the Ohio
marketplace.”
During the past six
years, AT&T invested
more than $140 billion into
its wireless and wireline
networks, when capital
investment and acquisi-tions
of spectrum and
wireless operations are
combined.
NB&T announces 3rd
quarter dividend
Staff report
WILMINGTON —
NB&T Financial Group
Inc. (Nasdaq: NBTF),
parent company of The
National Bank and Trust
Company, has declared a
dividend of $.30 per share
payable Oct. 27, 2014 to
shareholders of record on
Sept. 30, 2014.
This dividend is the
same as the previous
quarter’s dividend and
the dividend declared in
September 2013.
NB&T Financial had,
as of June 30, total assets
of $652 million, cash
management accounts
totaling $48 million, trust
and brokerage assets
with a market value of
$348 million, and loans
serviced for others of
$42 million, resulting in
a total of $1.09 billion
in assets under manage-ment,
and currently oper-ates
22 full service offices
in six southwestern Ohio
counties.
J D named 1 of top dealers for 2014
Staff report
J D Equipment was
recently recognized as
being one of the SAT-ISFYD
top 200 dealers
for 2014. J D Equipment
is among an exclusive
group of the best dealer-ships
across the country,
according to a news
release.
SATISFYD is a soft-ware
company that works
closely with equipment
manufacturers and their
dealers to drive growth
through managed cus-tomer
relationships.
As the equipment
industry continues to
evolve, the outstanding
dealers will be those with
a commitment to serving
the customer throughout
their entire business.
Now more than ever,
manufactures depend on
high performing dealers
to ensure the future of
their brands.
SATISFYD top deal-ers
demonstrate they
put their customers first.
Survey results allow
dealerships the chance to
listen to their customers
and implement business
improvements for future
growth.
“J D Equipment’s com-mitment
to serving our
customers includes our
listening to suggestions
from our customers
and our employees and
striving to continuously
improve our dealership at
all eight locations,” said
Jeff Mitchell, CEO of J D
Equipment.
J D Equipment is a family-owned
business that sells and services
new and used John Deere
agriculture, lawn and garden, and
light construction equipment, along
with more than 100 other brands of
equipment and parts as well. Over
the past 30 years, J D has grown
to become Ohio’s largest John
Deere dealer, with eight locations
and more than 300 employees in
central Ohio. They pride themselves
on their excellent customer
service, wide range of products and
customer support.
Tuesday, Sept. 30
• Activities at the
Blanchester Senior Citi-zens
Center, 707 N. Broad-way,
Blanchester: 9 a.m.
yoga; 11 a.m. volleyball;
1 p.m. exercise; 1:30 p.m.
crafts; 7 p.m. line dance.
• Friends Abroad:
Wilmington Quakers in
World War I, 7 to 8:30
p.m., at the Quaker Heri-tage
Center in the Boyd
Cultural Arts Center, Col-lege
and Douglas streets,
Wilmington. Guest lecture
by Dr. D. Neil Snarr,
professor emeritus, Wilm-ington
College. More than
a dozen young men from
our community volun-teered
with the Red Cross
and the American Friends
Service Committee during
World War I. Snarr will
share their stories.
• 4C for Children
play and learn group for
caregivers, parents and
children birth to age 6,
10 to 11:30 a.m., in the
lower level meeting room
at the Wilmington Public
Library. Learn new activi-ties
to play with children
and get free books and
materials to do activities
at home. Free. To register
or for more information,
call Cathie Streator at 937-
725-2981.
Wednesday, Oct. 1
• Blanchester Senior
Citizens, noon, at the
center, 707 N. Broadway,
Blanchester.
• Photography: Our
History Exposed. Clinton
County History Center,
149 E. Locust St., Wilm-ington.
The exhibit reflects
more than 100 years of
photography in our area.
Special tours for groups of
eight or more. www.clin-toncountyhistory.
org. 937-
382-4684. Cost is $5.
Cabinets of Curiosities:
Weird and Wonderful,
Clinton County History
Center, 149 E. Locust,
Wilmington.
Among the 75 items on
display are jewelry and
wreaths made of human
hair, a doll inspired by the
1918 flu pandemic, items
from Burch Arthur’s funer-al
home and many arti-facts
that were once used
in daily life but whose
function now eludes us.
www.clintoncountyhis-tory.
org. 937-382-4684.
Cost is $5.
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