A Big Change at Dublin City Hall

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You might not have heard of STG Logistics, but it's a pretty big company headquartered right here on Emerald Parkway. And it's had quite a year.

Back in January, the freight transportation company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, carrying roughly $1.1 billion in funded debt.

But that didn't mean STG was shutting down. Chapter 11 allows companies to reorganize their finances while continuing to operate, and that's exactly what happened here.

Its trucks kept moving, and in July, the company emerged from bankruptcy after reducing its funded debt by nearly $1 billion, or about 90%.

Now there's another big change.

STG has hired Jack Holmes, a former UPS Freight CEO who spent 37 years at UPS, to take over the company. He started October 5, and several other top leadership positions are changing hands too.

So a company many of us probably drive past without giving it much thought has gone from bankruptcy protection to a new leadership team in less than a year.

And with most of its old debt gone, STG is hoping its next chapter looks very different from its last.

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It's another state championship for Dublin Jerome!

The boys golf team won the Ohio Division I state title Tuesday at NCR Country Club in Kettering. That's two years in a row and an incredible 11 state championships for the program.

And they didn't exactly squeak by. Jerome finished 25 strokes ahead of second-place St. Xavier.

But there's an even better story in the individual results.

Senior Brady Barnum defended his state title, finishing three under par. And right behind him, just two strokes back, was his younger brother Blaise, a sophomore.

That's right. Two brothers from Dublin Jerome finished first and second in the entire state.

And the girls had a pretty impressive tournament themselves. After winning the state championship last year, Jerome's girls finished as Division I state runners-up this time.

So between the boys' team championship, the Barnum brothers taking the top two individual spots, and the girls finishing second, it was quite a couple of days for Dublin Jerome golf!

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There's a pretty big change coming at Dublin City Hall.

Megan O'Callaghan, our city manager, has resigned. Her last day will be November 13, just one month from now.

She's been city manager since 2022, but she's actually worked for Dublin since 2014. And if you think about how much our city has changed in those 12 years, that's quite a stretch to have been part of.

Back when she started, Bridge Park didn't exist, we couldn't walk across the river on the Dublin Link, and the Bridge Street District looked very different from what we know today.

O'Callaghan helped oversee many of those changes, first as public service director and then as city manager, the person responsible for running the city's day-to-day operations.

So why is she leaving?

That's something we don't know yet. The city's announcement didn't give a reason, and O'Callaghan only said she's excited about the next chapter of her career.

And with her departure just a month away, we don't yet know who will be taking over her job either.