Meat and potatoes plays stir Middletown highs drama balance
Middletown High School drama teacher Jim Butch urges a varied season mixing comedies with serious works to reflect real life. Students tackle Death of a Salesman Flowers for Algernon and Tell Me That You Love Me Junie Moon to explore minority and disability themes and human resilience.
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Jim Butch
Middletown High School
Junie Moon
MHS
LMHS
Algernon
Cindy Lawrence
David Langworthy
Warren
Tim Adams
Butch
Arthur Miller
Charlie
Cliff Robertson
I.Q
County must cut budget for 1977 by $2 million
Butler County votes need to reduce the 1977 budget by nearly two million as auditor reports 7.41 million to the general fund while total requests reach 9.3 million. The 1976 appropriation stood around 6.9 million with a 378 thousand balance from last year and funds certified across about 37 accounts. In other business US Rep Thomas Kindness presented a plaque marking the old post office site at Third and Ludlow where the Board of Elections now meets.
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Hamilton
Butler
Thomas Kindness
U.S
Third
Middletown to Hold Public Hearing on 1977 CDBG Budget
City Commission will hold a 6 p.m. public hearing in the City Building Commission Chamber on the 1977 Middletown budget for federal Community Development funds. The total is 6,289,000 reflecting carryover from 1975 and 1976 with past allocations of 5.3 million annually. Citizens may comment on the grant application at tomorrow’s meeting.
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Middletown
City Commission
City Building Commission
HEW Approves Toledo Public School Racial Balance Plan
The U S Department of Health Education and Welfare approved Toledo public schools plan to balance minority teachers and administrators across all schools. Twenty four percent of staff are from minority groups and the plan aims for 19 to 29 percent in each school through resignations retirements and normal transfers.
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Toledo, Ohio
U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Toledo Public Schools
HEW
Emory Leverette
Thatch
Frank Dick
Officials to attend Monroe sewer rate meeting
Monroe residents will hear explanations of a sewer rate increase at two meetings. Charles Forsthoff and Rick Brown of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will attend along with Butler County Sanitary Engineer James Hinchberger, engineer William Biffert, and village officials. Meetings are at 2 p.m. at the Mt. Pleasant Home activities building and at 8 p.m. in the Seven Dolors Church Fellowship Hall.
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Monroe
Charles Forsthoff
Rick Brown
Ohio Environmental Protection
Butler County
James Hinchberger
William Biffert
Mt. Pleasant
Seven Dolors
Fire and medical runs logged across city districts
A series of emergency calls records incidents from 2:02 p.m. to 11:51 p.m. including ill individuals transported to hospital with varying conditions, a soot issue at a chimney, and a reported forcible transport with police assistance. No transport after fire call at 9:08 p.m.
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Wicoff St
Pearlie Harris
Wife charged in stabbing death of husband
Diana Day 31 of 1006 Catalpa Drive faces voluntary manslaughter charges after her husband Charles 35 was stabbed to death last Saturday. Day says self defense after he choked her following heavy drinking. autopsy cites chest stab wound to heart. Their 10-year-old son witnessed the incident. Day released on own recognizance pending preliminary hearing.
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Diana Day
Catalpa Drive
Charles
Day
Middletown succeeds in measles immunization drive
Middletown health officials report 95 percent of school age children immunized after a late 1975 survey found 35 percent under-immunized. Dr John Perkins led clinics with Bureau of Public Health Nursing support to shield the city as Ohio faces rising measles cases statewide.
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Ohio
Department of Health
DDH
Middletown
John Perkins
Middletown Board of Health
Bureau of Public Health Nursing
Paul Asmussen
Perkins
United Way
Public hearing on Erie harbor plan in Port Clinton area
Ohio Department of Natural Resources will hold a public meeting on February 17 on Catawba Island Peninsula to gather opinion about the refuge harbor planned for West Harbor near Port Clinton.
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Port Clinton
Ohio
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Catawba Island
West Harbor
Middletown Man's Trial Begins in Rape Case
A jury has been seated in the Butler County Common Pleas Court, where Don Paul, 22, of Middletown, faces charges of raping a 20 year old woman on October 2 last year. Judge Robert L Marrs presides as testimony was set to begin.
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Hamilton
Don Paul
Breiel Blvd
Middletown
Paul
Butler County Common Pleas
Robert L Marrs
Anslinger trial under way in Montgomery County court
Opening statements in a suit by Mayor Marvin Hall to remove Village Administrator Dan Anslinger were heard in Montgomery County Probate Court. The defense argued the case is a political dispute over a water rate hike.
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Germantown
Montgomery County
Marvin Hall
Dan Anslinger
Makley
Anslinger
Watson
Hall
Ross Winning
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