November 03, 2016
Sinclair Community College ranks among the safest communities in the region for violent crime, a fact that might be surprising to some because of the urban location of the main campus.
The violent crime rate is below even exceptionally safe communities including Bellbrook, Beavercreek and Germantown – all cities that have among the lowest violent crime rates in the region according to 2015 FBI violent crime statistics.
Sinclair has a violent crime rate of .05 per 1,000 based on the m...
November 03, 2016
Chef Frank Leibold earned his stripes in the neighborhood bakeries of Dayton and in the highly competitive contact-sport kitchens of New York City in the 1970s, experience that guides his coaching of tomorrow’s generation of culinary experts at Sinclair Community College.
The pace is brisk in the commercial kitchen where Leibold, a professor today, runs students through the fine points of making soda bread, pretzels, sweet rolls, coffee cakes and crackers.
“We have to keep ...
November 03, 2016
Valedictorian. When the term comes up around high school graduation time, you think of an outstanding student whose excellence will present them with tons of options. That’s the position Sierra Butler was in as Jefferson High School’s 2014 valedictorian, but the option she found most appealing ultimately surprised plenty of people around here.
Sierra turned down a number of scholarship offers from four-year schools to enroll at Sinclair.
“I was accepted into a lot of univ...