Bombs Away!
Lisa Hobbs|July 4, 2026|1 min readMcMinnville Fire Department held its annual Watermelon Drop. The event is popular amongst visitors to the square during the city’s Fourth of July festivities. Onlookers were warned about the splash zone and cautioned to stay out of it. In the bucket were Firefighters Nick Kolster and Tyler Driver. They were 95 feet up.
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Lisa Hobbs
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Lisa Hobbs is an award-winning writer. She has 21 years of experience in newspaper journalism, including 17 years at a publication in Warren County. During that timeframe, she covered both city and county governments, education, wrecks, fires, crime, community events, and wrote a popular Sunday column named Just A Thought. “My desire at Warren County Way is to return ethical and dedicated news coverage to the community I served for almost two decades.”
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