| The NATO Parliamentary Assembly is behind us. You can read some impressions of the event from me and others who covered it here. And now we return to our regularly scheduled coverage. Welcome to the Weekly Roundup, where we bring you the top stories from today’s Dayton Daily News and major stories from the past week you may have missed. This week, that includes a new tool to analyzed the financial health of local school districts, and … pickleball! Do you have a news tip or an issue you think our reporters should look into? Contact me at Josh.Sweigart@coxinc.com, or you can use our anonymous tipline. *** In a pickle Carley Raney hits the ball during a pickleball game on Thursday, May 29, 2025, at City Hall Plaza. JOSEPH COOKE/STAFF The first I heard of pickleball was maybe 17 years ago. I was a reporter at the Journal-News and they were building some new courts in West Chester Twp. So I know it’s been around for a while. But the first time I played the game was maybe three years ago. Confession: I now drive around with pickleball equipment in my trunk. • Growing popularity: I’m not alone. Reporter Dave Jablonski found the sport has been around for a while, but is exploding in popularity. Read his full story here. • New courts: Dave’s story lists new courts opening in Centerville, Hamilton, Xenia, Riverside and Springfield. • Going pro: Jade and Jackie Kawamoto, twin sisters who played tennis at the University of Dayton, graduating from UD in 2018, were introduced to pickleball by their dad and now are professional players in Major League Pickleball and in the Professional Pickleball Association. • ‘One more’: Jeff Jett, a local coach and player who co-founded Black Barn Pickleball, compares the game’s addictiveness to golf: “You just can’t perfect it. If you just lost, you want to improve on it. A game is over in 12 to 15 minutes tops. You think, ‘Well, just one more. I can’t end that way.’ If you won, you think, ‘Wow, this is great. I want to keep this going.’ The joke is, ‘Just one more.’ That‘s kind of the theme of pickleball. Let‘s play just one more.†School financial health The Vandalia-Butler City Schools Board of Education office is located at 500 S. Dixie Drive in Vandalia. AIMEE HANCOCK/STAFF Our education reporter Eileen McClory has exhaustively covered Ohio’s school funding debate and the success or failures of local levies. This week, she analyzes the financial health of area schools. • The story: Read Eileen’s story here, using a new tool a new tool released from the Ohio Auditor of State that measures how schools are doing financially. • First, the good news: According to an analysis by this news outlet, most of the local schools that provided data to the state appear to be fiscally healthy. • The bad news: Springboro Schools in Warren County was one of two local school districts that the auditor’s office flagged as having possible issues in two or three years. • Zoom out: The report comes out as Ohio lawmakers debate a new two-year Ohio budget. The House-passed GOP proposal includes a reduction in planned state spending and a measure that could cost local school districts hundreds of millions of dollars. | 