Millersport Sweet Corn Festival marks 70th annual event
The Millersport Lions Club hosts the 70th Millersport Sweet Corn Festival in Historic Lions Park August 31 to September 3 featuring hot buttered corn, a large midway, tractor pulls, square dancing, and top-name country acts Lee Greenwood and Lonestar. Grand Parade activities include crowning the Sweet Corn Queen, with events by the Brookover-Harlow Pavilion and charity fundraisers supporting local nonprofits.
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Adams Publishing Group
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Millersport
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Brookover-Harlow
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Lonestar
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Rita Mohler
Millersport Lions Club
Hebron Lions Club
Millersport Lions
Franzen
Trial date set in Nelsonville bar owner murder case
Taylor Mills 22 of Nelsonville faces aggravated murder and related charges in the December shooting death of Tim Koker, owner of The Mine Tavern. Pretrial hearings set for Nov 10 and Feb 1 2017 with trial slated for Feb 14, 2017. Mills pleads innocent. bond remains $1 million.
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Taylor Mills
Tim Koker
Koker
Mills
Athens County Common Pleas Court
Patrick Lang
Andrew Stevenson
Stevenson
Lang
Southeastern Ohio
Athens Hocking Recycling Centers eyes cooking oil unit
Athens County officials discuss adding used cooking oil recycling to the nonprofit Athens Hocking Recycling Centers Inc. A potential Route 13 site near the former County Home is under review with EPA visits already held. A Poston Station Road location is another option as regulators require 110 percent containment for a 4500 gallon tank. The board plans a site visit before any final decision.
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Athens County
Chris Chmiel
Bruce Underwood
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Athens-Hocking Recycling
Poston Station Road
Theisen
EPA
Poston
Lenny Eliason
Burr Oak Water District
Route 13
Eliason
Burr Oak
Susan G. Komen Race Returns to Athens Campus
The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure returns to Ohio University in October with honorary chairs Cindy Oremus and Mary Dupler. Oremus, 31 at diagnosis, and Dupler, a mother of two from Somerset, share survivor stories as Athens organizers aim for a $55,000 goal after last year’s $100,000 raised by 650 participants.
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Mary Dupler
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Dupler
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Ohio inmate who survived 2009 botched execution appeals
Romell Broom, a death row inmate from Ohio who survived a 2009 botched execution, asks the U.S. Supreme Court to rule a second attempt would violate cruel and unusual punishment and double jeopardy. His appeal follows a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruling and a failed prior attempt after 18 needle insertions.
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Columbus
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Death Row
Romell Broom
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Broom
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U.S
Alzheimer's Association WV chapter visits Athens with monthly hours
Beginning Sept. 2, the Alzheimer's Association West Virginia Chapter will hold office hours in Athens on the first and third Fridays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at The Athens Village ACEnet Building 94 Columbus Road Room 4. Community members may pick up materials, discuss resources, or meet a care consultant. call 1-800-272-3900 for services or visit www.alt.org/ww for workshops. Columbia Two trustees meet Sept 2 at 2 p.m. at the fire station.
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Alzheimer’s Association
West Virginia
Athens
Athens Village
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Columbus Road
Carolyn Canini
Association
Alt.org
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