Children collect and trade cards bearing Harrison police officers' pictures and career statistics. Senior citizens sign up to have an officer visit them at home every day. Officer Mariann Duncan spends her days teaching and assisting at the junior and high schools. Such efforts have helped residents move beyond the scandal of former Police Chief Thomas Keenan, who is awaiting trial on charges of sexually assaulting an employee. That desire runs through the city's institutions.
People continue to work together for their common success and to meet individual needs.
But here in town, if someone dies, neighbors bring casseroles and pies to their home. If somebody needs to run an errand, someone will watch their kids for them. It's still that hometown kind of place. The Cincinnati Enquirer , a Gannett Co. Inc. newspaper.