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In this Dublin Daily Issue
☘️ Dublin Area Events
☘️ Local Weather
☘️ Why Dublin's City Website Has Been Down
☘️ Three New Officers Just Joined Dublin Police
☘️ A Dublin Post Office's Role in a Major Drug Case
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Upcoming events
Dublin Area Events
Click event titles for additional details and updates. Please beware that City links may not work right now, for more details see below.
Saturday
The Dublin Market at Bridge Park — 9 AM to 12 PM at Bridge Park
Tours at Thaddeus Kosciuszko Park — 10 AM to 12 PM at Thaddeus Kosciuszko Park. Guided tours by the Dublin Heritage Interpreters.
August Meet-Up — 11:30 AM at Columbus Metropolitan Library - Dublin Branch
Golf Outing — 12 PM at 2900 Martin Rd
Indian Independence Day — 6 PM to 9 PM at Riverside Crossing Park
Sunday
The Coffman Homestead “Farm Chores” - 1 PM to 3 PM at 5200 Emerald Parkway. Guided tour and free ice cream.
D&D Adventurers' League — 1 PM at Beyond the Board
Monday
Dublin City Council – Work Session — 6 PM to 8 PM at Council Chambers
Tuesday
Community Development Committee — 5 PM to 7 PM at Council Chambers
Weather
Local Weather
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Local News
Why Dublin's City Website Has Been Down
If you've visited the City of Dublin's website recently and something looked off, that's not you — the original site's been down, with a temporary version filling in while it's rebuilt.
According to the city, the outage traces back to a storm in Phoenix that knocked out cooling capacity at a data center belonging to Dublin's web hosting provider. The city does have redundancy in place through that same host — but both systems were affected by the storm, which is why the backup didn't kick in the way it normally would have.
The good news: recovery's already underway. A few subsites, including the economic development page, are already back online, and the city expects the main site to be fully restored within the next few hours.
Worth knowing: some of the event links we normally share come from the City's own site, so a few may not work properly until it's fully back. We'll keep an eye on it and update you if anything changes.
Local News
Three New Officers Just Joined Dublin Police
Dublin Police officially swore in three new officers today: Alec Rich, Hayden Hale, and Gretchen Wilber.
Each one comes to it a little differently. Alec's already got six years of law enforcement experience under his belt. Hayden's a Dublin Jerome grad, coming back home to serve the community he grew up in. And Gretchen's starting her career alongside family already on the force — her uncle, Officer Jeremy Miller.
Welcome to all three, and thank you for choosing to serve our community. We wish them the very best as they start this new chapter.
Local News
A Dublin Post Office's Role in a Major Drug Case
A federal drug case that wrapped up with a guilty plea this week has a real local thread: prosecutors say a Dublin post office was used to mail fentanyl and methamphetamine to buyers around the country.
The case centers on a Bellefontaine couple who ran the operation out of their home, receiving roughly 260 packages of drugs by mail between August 2024 and December 2025, then storing them in a cooler on their porch for pickup. To ship the drugs back out, though, court records say the husband didn't use a post office near home — he drove to one in Dublin instead, including one batch of 52 parcels sent to a buyer in Middleburg Heights. Nobody's said why Dublin specifically, but it's notable enough that federal prosecutors called it out directly.
Both defendants pleaded guilty this week to federal trafficking charges, facing sentences ranging from 10 years to life. A search of their home also turned up a dozen firearms alongside the drugs.
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Quick correction: In our piece on Hammond Russell IV, we said he grew up in Dublin. Turns out he was actually raised in Columbus and attended school here.
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