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☘️ Dublin Area Events
☘️ Local Weather
☘️ The Job That Keeps Every Dublin School Moving
☘️ Same Grid, Same Rising Bills, and Dublin's on It
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Upcoming events
Dublin Area Events
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Tuesday
Finance Committee — 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM at Council Chambers
Empower Hour – Dublin Summer Fun Series — 6 PM to 7 PM at Riverside Crossing Park
PAC's weekly sand volleyball extravaganza! — 6 PM at 7401 Avery Rd
Wednesday
Walk with a Doc at Coffman Park — 9 AM at 5200 Emerald Pkwy
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
Synergy Plus Chapter Meeting — 11:30 AM at Rusty Bucket Corner Tavern
Chief’s Advisory Committee — 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM at Council Chambers
Abbey Theater – The Lightning Thief — 7 PM to 9 PM at Abbey Theater of Dublin
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Local News
The Job That Keeps Every Dublin School Moving
If you've ever walked into your kid's school with a question, a problem, or a forgotten lunch, the first person you talked to probably wasn't the teacher or the principal — it was the secretary at the front desk. It's easy to walk past that desk without thinking twice about what actually happens there.
In practice, it's one of the more demanding jobs in any building: juggling schedules, coordinating substitutes, managing paperwork, checking in visitors, and handling whatever unexpected thing comes up in a given day — all while being the calm, familiar face that greets every kid who walks through the door. It's less a desk job and more the glue holding the daily chaos of a school together, as Dublin City Schools recently highlighted.
Every time I've dealt with one, they've somehow managed to sound patient and unbothered, even when I could tell five other things were happening at once.
Local News
Same Grid, Same Rising Bills, and Dublin's on It
If your electric bill has felt like it's crept up every few months, you're not imagining it — and it's not just because it's been hot. Ohio's state utility survey compares bills using the same fixed amount of electricity each year, specifically to strip out weather and usage differences. Even accounting for that, the average Ohio residential bill in July was 12% higher than a year ago, and 62% higher than back in 2015.
Central Ohio's data center boom is part of the reason, though not the whole story. AEP Ohio is required by law to serve any customer who needs power, including data centers — and if a data center reserves way more electricity than it ends up using, the cost of building that capacity doesn't just disappear. Without the right rules, it can get spread across everyone else's bill instead.
That's what regulators have been trying to prevent. Data centers now have to pay for at least 85% of the power they reserve, whether they use it or not, up from 65% under the old rule. On Aug. 5, the state added another layer, requiring data centers to give AEP six months' notice before dropping back to standard service, so the utility isn't stuck scrambling to buy power at the last minute.
Data centers aren't the sole reason bills are higher than they used to be. But as the boom keeps growing, it's worth watching whether these safeguards actually hold, or whether households end up carrying more of the cost anyway. NBC4 has a deeper breakdown of how this plays out for local bills.
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