Explosion Injures 2 At Athens Mental Health Center
An explosion in the boiler room of the Athens Mental Health Center heating plant injures two men, patient Lloyd Compton and employee William Dean. Compton suffers severe burns. Dean has a head laceration. Damper failure blamed for a dust explosion. damage around $500.
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Athens Mental Health Center
Lloyd Compton
William Dean
Elizabeth St
Nelsonville
O’bleness Memorial Hospital
Athens
Earl Goodin
Compton
Dean
Ball backs overhaul of Ohio criminal code in House bill
Claire Ball Jr a prosecutor from Athens County and candidate for state representative in the 91st District endorses House Bill 511 to modernize Ohio's criminal code and asks Senate judiciary committee to act. The measure would add 298 new sections and repeal 738, reducing total by 440 while tightening penalties for violent crimes. Ball notes the update follows seven years of study by the Ohio Legislative Services Commission and aims to simplify law for enforcement and citizens.
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Claire Ball Jr
Ohio
Ball
Ohio House of Representatives
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Ohio Legislative Services Commission
Athens County
Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys’ Association
Albany Halloween plans for Oct 31 trick or treat
Albany hosts Trick or Treat from 6 to 7 p.m. followed by a 7 p.m. Halloween party at the elementary school. Mayor W H Battrell warns fines for unmasked attendees as local groups sponsor the event.
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Albany
W. H. Battrell
Battrell
The
Modern Woodmen of America
Albany Grange
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Community Churches
Births and hospital notes from O'Bleness Memorial
A daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Lane Hoisington of Nelsonville. Admitted: Elinor Minister and others from Athens and nearby towns. Dismissals include Joel Ellis and several local residents. CHAUNCEY reports the CD Lions to meet with guest speaker Gerald at 7 p.m. in the club room.
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Lane Hoisington
Nelsonville
Elinor
Harland Harris
David Gould
Athens
Wayne Shears
Frank Bendervich
Raymond Roberts
Glouster
David Brown
Linda Harden
Murray City
James Laughlin
Stewart
Elva Cooper
the Plains
Melissa Toney
New Plymouth
Larry Wiles
Racine
Joel Ellis
Robert Jago
James Cox
Josephine Peters
Richard Lyman
Buford Leedy
Joan Wallace
Thomas Bennett
Debbie Johnson
Chauncey
CD Lions
Gerald
Athens High
Bond Set For Athens Man on Hallucinogen Charge
An Athens County man Frank James of Athens Route 2 is jailed awaiting a preliminary hearing on distributing hallucinogens to a minor. Bond set at 5000 dollars after a Municipal Court plea of innocence. Hearing slated for Tuesday. Other court items list multiple defendants and outcomes across Athens area.
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Athens Area
Athens County
Frank James
Athens
Nelsonville
Robert Steers
Marietta
State Highway Patrol
Richard Deutch
N. McKinley Avenue
Gary Wallace
Akron
Krogers
Gilbert Ruiz
Toledo
Craig Stauffer
Medina
Blood mobiles in Athens donate 267 pints over two days
The Athens blood bank received 267 pints during a two day bloodmobile visit, 17 pints above the quota. A total of 312 donors registered including 92 new donors, with special gallon awards to Eugene Jennings and several one gallon donors.
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Athens
Bloodmobile
Lois DeVeau
Red Cross Blood Program
DeVeau
Eugene Jennings
Calvin Baloun
James Conover
Terrence Kramer
Judith Ann Brostrom
Thomas Shaw
George Wehmann
Mark Rubinstein
Ray Jennings
W. Baumgartel
Nicolas Simon
Sigmund Konigseder
Henry Croci
LeClair to Address Cincinnati Library Conference
Dr. Lowell V. LeClair director of Ohio University Extended Learning will speak at a general session of the Ohio Library Association Ohio Library Trustees Association conference in Cincinnati. His talk titled The Extended University and Its Future in Ohio notes his one year leave from Ohio University Lancaster Campus to work on the project. More than 1,100 librarians and trustees across the state attend the three day event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LeClair
Lowell V. LeClair
Ohio University
Ohio Library Association
Ohio Library Trustees Association
Cincinnati
Ohio
Ohio University Lancaster
Harris Hospitalized for Medical Tests
Fire Chief Harland Harris is a patient at O'Bleness Memorial Hospital. He is undergoing a series of tests and expects to remain for two or three days.
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Harland Harris
O’bleness Memorial Hospital
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