Rains Pound Athens Area Over Labor Day Weekend
Heavy rains drenched the Athens area with 2.02 inches on Sunday and Monday, pushing total since last Tuesday past 6.6 inches. Richland Avenue flooded for the third time in seven days as State and county roads including Routes 356 56 690 691 50A and county routes 93 278 328 were closed or flooded. Police reopened Richland Avenue after early closures.
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Athens
Ohio University Geography Department
Richland Avenue
State Highway Patrol
Athens County
Vinton County
Warnke Joins Page Chevrolet Athens Sales Staff
Danny Lee Warnke joined Page Chevrolet in Athens as part of the sales team. He is a Fairview Park native with a journalism degree from Ohio University.
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Danny Lee Warnke
Page Chevrolet
Athens
Warnke
Fairview Park
Ohio Univerity
Two campus workshops planned at Ohio University in September
Ohio University schedules two workshops in September. The Counseling and Psychological Services unit hosts a mental health session on September 11 to 12 for human service workers, while the Engineering and Industrial Systems departments host an engineering economy workshop September 17 to 18. Contact 301 Tupper Hall or call 594 3767 for details.
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Ohio University
Department of Counseling and Psychological Services
Office of Workshops
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Tupper Hall
Ohio Power seeks 49 Million Emergency Rate Hike
POMEROY The Ohio Power Co filed with PUCO for a 49 million emergency rate increase affecting 571000 customers. The hike, about 16 percent for residential users, would start Oct 1 and address “extreme financial problems” amid inflation, environmental spending, high interest, labor, taxes, and materials costs.
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Pomeroy
Ohio Power Co
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
PUCO
Festival Prizes Awarded in Parade of the Hills
Nelsonville groups announced prize winners from St. Andrews Church John Ator received 200 dollars Clarence Winigman 100 dollars Shirley Grisgby 50 dollars American Legion Post No 229 Jim Dean won a half beef Knights of Pythias Lodge No 169 Jack Maurer received a miniature electric grandfather clock All winners are from Nelsonville Route 1.
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Nelsonville
St. Andrews Church
John Ator
Clarence Winigman
Shirley Grisgby
Knights of Pythias Lodge
Jack Maurer
American Legion
Jim Dean
Traffic Aid Is Destroyed at Route 33 Intersection
Ohio Department of Transportation had installed a highway sight mirror at the Route 33 and Two Road 143 junction in Meigs County to improve visibility. Vandalism destroyed the device, with officials warning destruction of highway signs is a crime and could bring imprisonment or fines.
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Marietta
Ohio Department of Transportation
Meigs County
District 10
Max R. Farley
Farley
Lloyd Roth
Roth
Mount St. Mary Hospital Notes Admits List of Patients
Mount St. Mary Hospital notes admit a long list of patients including Master Gary Barnhart Miss Regina Whyte Wilbur Hutchins Mrs Gloria Baker Mrs Lois Koon Mrs Ruth Thomas and many others across Nelsonville Glouster McArthur Murray City Haydenville Logan Emmett Long and additional names. The entry records patient names and home locations without further details.
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Gary Barnhart
Regina Whyte
Wilbur Hutchins
Gloria Baker
Lois Koon
Ruth Thomas
Nelsonville
Otis C. Bethel
McArthur
Donna Sayre
Glouster
Verna Pancake
Judy Koons
Artie Newman
Laurelville
Earl A. Orsborne
Murray City
Geisel Richardson
Athens
Lula Martin
Melissa Windle
Minerva
Nora Kathleen Wheeler
Haydenville
Ruth Souders
Logan
Kenneth E. Whitmore
Buchtel
Elwood North
Hannah Hall
Tillie Perry
Margaret Ong
Patty Dupler
Marie Mills
Fred Morman
Autta Thomas
Hubert Klotz
Sandra Allen
Marie Baker
Myrtle Deem
Nancy Williams
Joyce Goodrich
James Kochis
Betty Lou Vanmeter
Letta Dennis
Jamie Thompson
Emmett Long
Mary J. France
Charles Stanley
Claude Wing
Anna McCray
Earl Orsborne
Eugene Thompson
Ellen Nolder
Dulcie Kamento
Betty Campbell
George Walters
Fannie Burton
Otis Bethel
Wanda Dodd
Waterloo Pupils Shift to Alexander High School Bus Route
Seventh and eighth graders at Waterloo School in New Marshfield will ride the Alexander High School bus instead. Principal John Mullins says classes start at 8 15 a m and end at 2 30 p m, effective today.
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Waterloo School
New Marshfield
Alexander High School
John Mullins
Ex-Athens Woman Named Ridgefield High English Chairman
Dr. Jean Baird McDonald, Athens native and University of Bridgeport English lecturer, was named chairman of Ridgefield High School English Department. She holds BS and MA from Bradley University, a doctorate from Memphis State, and has taught at Shelby State Community College and Memphis State. She and her husband William O. McDonald live in Weston, Connecticut with four children. She specializes in rhetoric and applied linguistics and works on an etymological dictionary of American dialects. The Pomeroy Labor Day parade and barbecue was sponsored by the Pomeroy Fire Department and Emergency Squad.
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Jean Baird McDonald
Athens
University of Bridgeport
Connecticut
Ridgefield (Conn
Homer Baird
Elmwood Place
Athens High School
Ohio University
Bradley University
Illinois
Bradley
Memphis State University
McDonald
Shelby State Community College
Memphis, Tenn
Memphis State
St. Paul’s Day School
Peoria
William O. McDonald
Litton Automated Business Systems
Weston
Conn
Phi Kappa Phi
National Scholastic Honorary Society
Virgin Islands
Appalachian
U.S
Pomeroy
Ohio to Sell 28 Buildings in Two Public Sales
Ohio Department of Transportation announces two upcoming sales of 28 properties in and around Athens for Appalachian Highway right of way and a Lower Salem residence. Sealed bids due by 2 p.m. on sale dates, with bid proposals from the Marietta district office and certified checks payable to the state treasurer.
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Ohio Department of Transportation
Max R. Farley
Tor
Athens
Farley
Muskingum Drive
Davis Avenue
Marietta
Anh
Public Information
Gallia County Teachers Strike Hits Second Week
Gallia County teachers and non teaching staff enter a second week of striking after Friday and Saturday talks failed to resolve demands. The board to hire a professional negotiator as talks resume in Cincinnati.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Bus Listings Incorrect Proposals for West Athens Routes
AORTA Director David Vaughan said Sunday that bus routes for west Athens and the Congress Madison Mill Streets were only proposals not in service. City Council will consider funding the expansion at tonight's meeting.
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West Athens
Congress-Madison-Mill Streets
Appalachian Ohio Regional Transit Association
AORTA
David Vaughan
Vaughan
Pomeroy Teen Forwarded After Medication Overdose
Pomeroy emergency squad responded to Shotgun Hollow Road near Rutland at 11 50 a m Monday for 17 year old Sharon Mash of Pomeroy who was treated at Veterans Memorial Hospital then Holzer Medical Center for an overdose and later transferred to University Hospital in Columbus.
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Pomeroy
Shotgun Hollow Road
Rutland
Sharon Mash
Veterans Memorial Hospital
Holzer Medical Center
University Hospital
Columbus
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Gallia
Ohio Association of Public School
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MON Thin
Putnam Howe Drive
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