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☘️ Dublin Area Events
☘️ Local Weather
☘️ Ready or Not, Friday Night Is Back
☘️ 150 Years, Same Family, Same House
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Upcoming events
Dublin Area Events
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Monday
Military Round Table - 1 PM to 3 PM in Tala 3 at the Dublin Recreation Center. Ron Rowland will speak about the life of George Armstrong Custer.
Dublin City Council – Work Session — 6 PM to 8 PM at Council Chambers
Tuesday
Empower Hour – Dublin Summer Fun Series — 6 PM to 7 PM at Riverside Crossing Park
Community Development Committee — 5 PM to 7 PM at Council Chambers
Wednesday
Food Truck Wednesdays — 11 AM to 1:30 PM at Coffman Park
Midweek Music – Dublin Summer Fun Series — 6 PM to 8 PM at Riverside Crossing Park
Thursday
First day of school for students K-12
Planning & Zoning Commission — 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM at Council Chambers
Weather
Local Weather
Community Spotlight
Neighbors Supporting Neighbors
A strong community is built by people supporting each other — local restaurants, small businesses, neighborhood shops, service providers, and the people behind them who help make Dublin feel connected.
That’s why we want to use this newsletter to introduce readers to more of the businesses and local founders that make our community special.
If you’d like your business to be considered for a future community feature, just reply to this email and introduce yourself.
Local News
Ready or Not, Friday Night Is Back
Talk about wasting no time.
Dublin City Schools students head back to class Thursday, August 20. One day later, all three Dublin high schools kick off their varsity football seasons.
Jerome gets the home opener, hosting Westerville South. Coffman travels to Bishop Hartley, while Scioto heads to Thomas Worthington. All three games kick off Friday at 7 p.m.
For Jerome fans, that means the first Friday night crowd of the year will be right here in Dublin. Coffman and Scioto fans will have to hit the road, although neither has particularly far to go.
And just like that, summer is pretty much over.
The backpacks come out Thursday. The student sections fill up Friday. And after a couple of quiet months, Friday night football is back in Dublin.
Local News
150 Years, Same Family, Same House
There's a house in Historic Dublin you could drive past a hundred times without thinking much about it.
But the family living there has a pretty remarkable connection to Dublin: their family has owned the property since 1876.
That's when George Michael Karrer bought it. If that last name sounds familiar, it should — Karrer Middle School is named after the family.
And the story gets better.
Before Karrer bought the property, it belonged to Daniel Wright, another early Dublin resident whose name you might recognize from Daniel Wright Elementary.
Wright's family had a particularly unusual path to Dublin. Before settling here in the early 1800s, they traveled around the Midwest putting on shows with a collection of exotic animals — basically an early version of a traveling circus. Daniel later became Dublin's postmaster, served as a justice of the peace and helped build the town's first schoolhouse.
And so the family connection continues. George Karrer's great-grandson still lives on the property today, nearly 150 years after his great-grandfather bought it.
So two names most of us know because they're on Dublin schools actually cross paths on one piece of land in Historic Dublin — and one of those families never left.
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