Besides the stadium, the organization contributed money for construc tion of a band shell and a village park. After the earlier raid in March 1998, village officials, from the police chief to council members, said it was no secret that alcohol was being served and sold at the legion hall and that gambling machines were set up on the premises. It's just kind of bad this has happened. This is a private club. They don't bother anybody.
Nobody goes there except their members.
Their doors are locked. Mayor Sanders said he did not know anything about gambling at the establishment, despite the state raid and gambling charges in 1998. A plea bargain resulted in the legion, as an organization, pleading no contest to one misdemeanor count each of keeping a place where alcohol is sold, illegal sale of alcohol, keeping a gambling house and operating a game of chance. That contribution went to the school district, he said. The Cincinnati Enquirer , a Gannett Co. Inc. newspaper.