Athens County approves Rock Riffle Road drainage funds
County Commissioners authorize a $164000 drainage repair project on Rock Riffle Road with State Issue I funds and engage Evans Mechwart Hambleton Tilton as consulting engineers. The project aims to realign two of three bridges and should take six months to finish.
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Athens County
Rock Riffle
Gerald Hann
Evans, Mechwart
Hambleton
Tilton
General Telephone Co
Board splits over Christman termination rescind vote
Athens County's new five member school board divided on rescinding the November termination of former superintendent George Christman. New members Jeffers and Robinson backed rescinding, while Cardaras and Dailey opposed. Laughlin abstained. Christman's attorney has filed an appeal seeking reinstatement.
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Peggy Parker
Athens County
George Christman
Franklin Jeffers
Christman
Rex Robinson
Jeffers
Robinson
Nick Cardaras
Esther Dailey
Robert Laughlin
Athens County Common Pleas Court
Federal Hocking
Cardaras
Laughlin
Andy Ransom
Paul Theisen
Marietta
Theisen
Martin Essex
Bernard Miller
State Department of Education
Ransom
Educational Materials Resources Center
EMRC
Emrc Board of Directors
Tri-County Vocational Board of Education
Dailey
Ohio School Board’s Association
Some Loafed Some Lugged It At Ohio University Return
Students returned to Athens for winter quarter at Ohio University. While moving gear and buying books, they faced ice and busy searches for gas, parking, and warmth in College Green. Three rooms were broken into with items worth over $1 200 reported.
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Athens
Ohio University
College Green
Ohio
Messenger
Dan Dry
Weather forecast for Monday January seventh sixteen
Partly cloudy and cold tonight with lows between 10 and 15 degrees. Tuesday will be fair with highs in the 30s. The state faces light snow on Wednesday and snow flurries in the northeast on Thursday and Friday with highs in the 30s and 40s and winds cooling to the 20s by Friday.
Icey Roads Close Federal Hocking Schools
Federal Hocking Schools stayed closed for a third straight day as icy back roads hinder bus service. Supt. Carmen Scrubbio said road conditions prevented buses from running and hoped classes could resume Tuesday after delays Thursday and Friday.
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Federal Hocking
Carmen Scrubbio
Ohio appoints Norman Niesen as mental retardation chief
Dr Norman J Niesen of State University of New York will lead Ohio Division of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities replacing Dr Roger Gove who resigned in May He will oversee six state institutes and county programs and was chosen by a state committee including Dr Lyle Lehman professor of special education at Ohio University Nielsen
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Columbus
Norman J. Niesen
Ohio
State University At Buffalo
New York
Roger Gove
Niesen
Lyle Lehman
The
Ohio Association For Retarded Children
Ohio University
O Bleness Memorial Hospital Admits Large List of Patients
A long hospital admission note from O'Bleness Memorial lists numerous patients and their origins including Athens Wellston Millfield Albany Glouster Jackson Wellsville The Plains Clinton and surrounding areas. Names include Melinda Eberts Clarence Lesler Mrs Willard Hart Carl Harner Vickie Green Mrs Walter Moore Terry Fox LaVerna Winne Emmett West and many others.
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Melinda Eberts
Clarence Lesler
Willard Hart
Carl Harner
Walter Moore
Vickie Green
William Woellner
Terry Fox
LaVerna Winne
Emmett West
Athens
Charles Ingalls
Wellston
Helen Mohler
Millfield
Larry Llewellyn
Larry Gould
New Marshfield
Richard Ryan
Wellsville
Milfred Bowles
Nelsonville
Richard Mason
Melissa Markins
Albany
Fred Anderson
Glouster
Lucy Sanders
Stewart
Andrew Roback
Jacksonville
Cindy Easler
the Plains
City Moves to Trim Monthly Parking Spots
The city plans to reduce reserved monthly spots in the Municipal Parking Garage from 122 to 110 to balance monthly and hourly spaces. Monthly renewals remain, new applicants can join a waiting list, and delinquent spots will be vacated under the new plan affecting lower basement, upper basement, and upper floors.
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Donald Barrett
Barrett
Parkers
Relief for Hemorrhoidal Itch Promised by Preparation H Ad
An advertisement claims Preparation H provides prompt relief from rectal itching and swelling due to hemorrhoids. It states doctors have tested it on hundreds of patients and many use or recommend it for their families.
Athens County fair group honored by state department
The Athens County Agricultural Society received an Ohio Department of Agriculture honor for its 1973 fair season at a recent fair managers convention.
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Athens County Agricultural Society
Ohio Department of Agriculture
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Robert Kerr
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