Chessie Rail Decision Brings Hope to Meigs County
The Chessie System and Southern Railroad will not take over Penn Central lines, keeping the Corning Hobson segment under ConRail. About 200 jobs and a $2 million annual payroll stay in Meigs County, with taxes of nearly $9,800 yearly and continued rail service for local industries including Midwest Steel Landmark and Provi ce Feed. Local protests urged retaining payroll and service to support coal and power sector growth.
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Beulah Jones
Meigs
Middleport
Chessie System
Southern Railroad
Penn Central
Meigs County
ConRail
Corning-Hobson
Corning To
Hobson
U.S
Clarence Miller
Columbus
Charleston
Penn Central Railroad
C&o
Pomeroy
Midwest Steel
Landmark
Chessie
George Arnott
Rio Grande College
Ken Gilkey
Meigs County Bicentennial plans discussed at commission meeting
Meigs County Bicentennial Commission outlined a year long program with bells rung county wide on July 4 and involvement in the Regatta Railroad Days Festival and county fair. proposals cover parades contests displays and a nationwide hands across the country theme locally.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Big Bend
Michael Gerlach
Meigs Museum
Gerlach
Vernon Weber
Rutland
Fred Leifheit
Fred Goeglein
Bradbury
Middleport
Middleport PTA Hears Minuteman Program Highlight
The Middleport PTA met February at Pearl Street School with Keith Circle in uniform replica of a Revolutionary War soldier presenting slides on Ohio’s role in nation building. The group voted $10 to the Minutemen program and $25 for a state life PTA membership. repairs to school televisions will involve high school students.
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Middleport
Keith Circle
Meigs County
PTA
Pearl Street
Circle
Ohio
Minutemen
Marilyn Epple
Joyce Blake
Cinda Harris
Eddie Kitchen
Rosemary Hysell
Bomb threat evacuated senior center in Pomeroy building
Occupants of the Senior Citizens Center in the old Pomeroy Junior High were evacuated Tuesday around noon after a bomb threat. Police then closed the building for 24 hours and conducted a rough search before a thorough check the next morning. The threat caller offered no time of detonation.
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Pomeroy
Senior Citizens Center
Pomeroy Junior High
Jed Webster
Pete Simpson
Simpson
Webster
Charles Legar
Two Thefts Investigated in Hocking County
Logan resident Ernest Chapman reports a shed break in between Friday afternoon and Monday with a chain saw generator welding torch tool box and tools valued over 1000 stolen. Laurelville resident Gladys H Stout reports a home entry between Thursday and Monday with a pried front door knob and items including radios CB gear revolvers rifles a chain saw and a television set taken.
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Logan
Hocking County
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