Oil spill near Stewart blamed on vandals causes little damage
Ohio EPA official says about 4 000 gallons of asphalt oil mix spilled at F W Brewer Co on Route 144 soaked into ground and contaminated a creek slightly. County tank valve opened by vandals led to the release. cleanup stopped, wildlife unaffected per divisions brief. Similar vandalism reported in Meigs and Hocking Counties.
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Telethon volunteers mobilize Athens CWA members
Union Local 4375 members will man pledge lines for the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon over Labor Day weekend at the Athens Ohio University Inn. William Green named coordinator. telethon airs 10 30 p m Sunday to 6 30 p m Monday on WTVN Channel 6 and WSAZ Channel 3. Local kickoff donation is 100. readers are urged to match.
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Dodd Hall
Ohio State University
Jerry Mendell
Ohio State University Hospital
National hot spell with cooler pull in northern Plains
National forecast calls for hot weather across most of the nation with cooler air in the northern Plains. Showers expected from the eastern Plains to the Upper Great Lakes and into northern Florida and southern Georgia. Local forecast notes party cloudy skies with a chance of late day storms and highs near 90.
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Doctor Reports Theft and Vehicle Damage in Athens
Dr Bruce Paxton reported 180 dollars stolen from his billfold in the O Bleness Memorial Hospital locker room during surgery on Wednesday. John Stimmel reported a pried nameplate and 50 to 75 dollars damage on a leased car at 19 2 S High St. A motorcycle was found damaged and brush covered in a creekbed near Carriage Hill Apartments.
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Lamar Dr
Athens
Paxton
O’bleness Memorial Hospital
John Stimmel
Northwood Dr
S. High St
Stimmel
Clifford Dukes Jr
Carriage Hill
Albany Woman Taken To Hospital After Illness
Paula Luckett a 28 year old Albany resident was taken to O'Bleness Memorial Hospital Friday at 8 25 am by the Athens unit of the Southeast Ohio Emergency Medical Service after she became ill with severe abdominal pains.
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Albany
O'Bleness Memorial Hospital
Athens
Southeast Ohio Emergency Medical Service
Car Ignores Steering Slams Pumps in $6,000 Fire
Athens fire says a Red Head Oil station on Richland Avenue suffered a $6,000 loss after a station employee's car, with failed steering, struck gas pumps. The blaze damaged the 1973 car for $3,000 and pumps for $3,000 while underground tanks were not burned. The driver, Phillip Burbridge, escaped injury as firefighters contained the fire.
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Dan Dry
Athens
George Cullison
Ron Bumgardner
Butch Haddox
Richland Avenue
Red Head
Phillip Burbridge
Pump Island
Burbridge
Natural gas rate hike hits Athens area customers
Columbia Gas of Ohio raises rates in Athens and nine other Athens County communities effective October 1 and October 14, adding about 73 cents a month for typical customers heating homes with gas and about 89 cents for others. The increases reflect higher wholesale costs and affect 310 Ohio communities under existing contracts.
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Athens
Athens County
Albany
Chauncey
Coolville
Glouster
Jacksonville
Nelsonville
Trimble
Amesville
Columbia Gas
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