Fortney Denies Suspension Charges At Athens Mental Health Center
Fortney and AFSCME Local 1782 deny drinking on duty and pressuring a coworker to drink. Center Supt Chovnick suspended Fortney for 15 days, then 30 days, while a restraining order blocked the second suspension. hearings set for Oct. 6 in Columbus and at the State Personnel Board of Review.
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Tom Price
Messenger
Ben Fortney
Athens Mental Health Center
Fortney
Center
Harry Chovnick
Athens County Common Pleas Court
Chovnick
Uled
State Personnel Board of Review
Columbus
Sigall
The
Board of Review
Union
Athens Hospital
Sus
Athens Hospital Union
Athens Council approves nine measures including TOPICS plan
Athens City Council suspended the rules and adopted nine ordinances and resolutions. They include second phase plans for the recreation complex and E State Street work funded by a $50,000 1972 federal grant, TOPICS street plans with Franklin Engineering, and sewer and salt bids plus a $32,500 LaMar Drive bonds award.
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Athens
City Service Safety
Engineering
E. State Street
Service Safety
Dwight Robinson
Franklin Engineering
Raymond Shepard
Richland Avenue
Council
County Budget Commission
Council Finance Committee
Tad Grover
Magnuson and Company
Cincinnati
Magnuson
Evans
Crosswalk Action Sought For State Street To Recreation Complex
Athens officials push for an overhead crosswalk on E State Street to protect children heading to the recreation area. The plan includes seeking federal funds for Route 50 crossing, ramps at Court and Union, a bicycle path, and access to the new OU airport at Albany with a Nov 15 target.
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Athens
E. State Street
Tad Grover
Grover
Court and
Union
Ohio University
Albany
Appalachian Regional Commission
Shaffer and
Hocking River
Richland Avenue
O’bleness
Richland Union
Dwight Robinson
Four Corners
Harry Crewson
City Recreation Commission
Barbara Daniel
Weather Outlook and Hurricanes Threat Regional Totals
Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with a chance of thundershowers. Lows mid 60s, Saturday highs mid 80s. Rain forecast Friday for the Southeast Mississippi Ohio Valleys Great Lakes Pacific Northwest. Hurricane Fern ashore south of Galveston Texas with warnings along the coast and inland tornado warnings. Gale warnings along the Louisiana coast. Cooler weather elsewhere. High yesterday 90, low 64. month total 0.63 inches, year 25.27 inches. Sun sets 7:46 p.m. today rises 7:06 a.m. Barometer steady at 29.97 inches.
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Mississippi
Ohio
Great Lakes
Pacific Northwest
Galveston
Texas
Louisiana
Two Hurt In Mishaps In Athens Area
Two area residents were treated after separate incidents in Athens Thursday. Bernice Beard 41 of Glouster slipped at Super X Drug Store injuring her right knee. Joyce James 42 of Chauncey injured her left ankle after stepping from a ladder at General Telephone Co. Both were taken to O Bleness Memorial Hospital. New York City received a $17 million Federal grant under the Emergency Employment Act.
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O’bleness Memorial Hospital
Athens Fire Department
Super-X
Plaza Shopping Center
E. State Street
Bernice Beard
High St
Glouster
General Telephone Co
W. Washington St
Joyce James
Chauncey
New York City
Miami Senior Wins Award For Writing
Edward J Montaine Awards named Miami University senior Mark E Young among three juniors in the 1970 71 competition. Young received a $28 prize and judge's special mention for poetry for Pliers: An Explanation. Cyril A Dostal judged the contest with 15 students earning 17 awards overall.
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Oxford
Mark E. Young
E. State St
Athens
Miami University
Edward J. Montaine
Young
College of Arts and Science
Miami
Montaine
Cyril A. Dostal
Ohio University
Sheridan High School
Thornville
Elza Young
Birth at O Bleness Memorial Hospital
Mr and Mrs Larry Klingensmith Guysville welcome a son. Admitted at O Bleness Memorial Hospital are Mrs Frank Moore and others from Athens Glouster Jacksonville New Marshfield and route addresses including Harold Cooley and Bernice Beard with multiple patients listed.
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Larry Klingensmith
Guysville
Frank Moore
John Shaw
Kathleen McAfee
Norman Saylor
Ernest Stricklin
Kevin Maurath
Athens
Harold Cooley
Floyd Hart
Bernice Beard
Glouster
Linda Roberts
Christopher Keith
Jacksonville
Etta Weed
New Marshfield
Whealon Named Warden at New Ohio Maximum Security Prison
W. J. Whealon, deputy warden at Chillicothe Correctional Institution, named to head Ohio's new Lucasville maximum security prison. Corrections Commissioner Bennett J. Cooper planned Monday’s official announcement, while Whealon expressed enthusiasm for the challenging post and a hoped-for greater public focus on corrections.
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Columbus, Ohio
W. J. Whealon
Chillicothe Correctional Institution
Lucasville
Columbus Dispatch
Bennett J. Cooper
Whealon
DAV Fall Meeting Set In Middletown
The Athens Disabled American Veterans group will meet Friday at 8 p.m. at the DAV Home in Middletown. The DAV fall conference will be held in Middletown on October 9 and 10, per Cmdr. James Darnell.
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DAV
Middletown
Athens
E. State
Cmdr
James Darnell
Cutler Man Bound To Jury In Gasoline Battery Theft
Eddie Stover of Cutler was bound over to the grand jury from Athens County Municipal Court on Thursday on charges of stealing gasoline and batteries from Federal Hocking High School on July 2. Bond set at 1500 dollars. other Cutler men faced related charges with bonds also set at 1500.
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Cutler
Eddie Stover
Athens County Municipal Court
Roger Jones
Stover
Federal Hocking High School
Hazel Willette
Clarkston Day
Bond
James Carney
Lonnie Sheets
Stockport
Carney
Bridgewater
Chauncey
Robert Collins
the Plains
Millview Inn
W. Union
Jim Wickersham
Racine
Lee Barrows
New Matamoros
Local divorce petitions filed for child custody across Athens areas
A batch of divorce petitions lists multiple plaintiffs seeking custody of minor children. Names include Bertha C. Joseph Athens and Marion N. Joseph, Virginia Bowles and James W. Bowles, Carolyn Sue Kline and Jer ry Lee Kline, Doris F. Faris and Jerry R. Faris, and others with addresses in Athens Nelsonville Coolville Albany Peninsula Guysville and nearby routes.
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Bertha C. Joseph
Palmer St
Athens
Marion N. Joseph
Virginia Bowles
James W. Bowles
Columbus
Carolyn Sue Kline
Nelsonville
Jerry Lee Kline
Doris F. Faris
Lancaster St
Jerry R. Faris
James W. Jolley
Helen Jolley
Reneva D. Nelson
Coolville
Boyce D. Nelson
Ruth E. Parsons
W. State St
Robert D. Parsons
State St
Asa Cochran
Freda Cochran
Isaac J. Scritchfield
Leanlani Scritchfield
Eva Bobo
Albany
Harley T. Bobo
Guysville
Stephen J Bachan
Peninsula
Esther Bachan
Elmwood Ave
Cycle Hits Roadgrader Injures Logan Youth
16 year old motorcyclist Steven Swabb of Logan Route 1 was injured and cited for no operator license after crashing into a roadgrader on Chieftan Drive 1.2 miles north of Logan. He received abrasions to the left leg, side and head at Hocking Valley Community Hospital. Roadgrader operator Ray Anderson of Logan Route 1 was uninjured.
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Logan
Chieftan Drive
The
Athens Post
State Highway Patrol
Steven Swabb
Hocking Valley Community Hospital
Swabb
Hocking County Highway Department
Ray Anderson
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