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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 2016
Page
1
The Messenger reports a local poll showing 544 voters favor uptown over downtown for Court Street area, with 28 for downtown and nine undecided or mixed. Readers cite tradition and geography, with residents recalling past usage and noting Eastside versus West End perspectives.
Edwina McCoy, who died June 18 at 82, was due to be buried beside her mother in Greenlawn plots she and relatives bought in 1982. The cemetery misidentified her father as the occupant of that plot, prompting a temporary interment behind a mausoleum and near Edwina’s parents. The family seeks exhumation and compensation with a double headstone, while officials review the case.
A Meigs County Home Rule Committee charter proposal to ban fracking water use and waste disposal is challenged by a group alleging an elections board member has a conflict. Jim Stewart, president of the Ohio Gas Association, urged invalidating the petition for insufficient valid signatures and ORC 302.02 compliance, with trustees Fox voting yes and Slavin Williams abstaining.
Two 2016 graduates Maryrose Littler and Kayla Cline, raised on an Albany area historic farm, represent the region's farming future. Littler, Athens High School graduate, and Cline, Alexander High, embrace organic living and permaculture principles to know food origins and foster self-sustaining systems.
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