Middletown considers restoring brick Central Avenue street
Crews begin testing brick pavement on Central Avenue at Verity Parkway to assess restoration viability. If successful, the 130000 dollar Community Development block grant funded project would return the street from Verity to Curtis to brick, preserving history and easing future maintenance.
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Karen Garloch
Central Avenue
Middletown Mall
Middletown
Central
Verity Parkway
Verity
Curtis Street
Warren Klink
Second Explosion Traps Eleven in Kentucky Mine
In Oven Fork Kentucky rescue teams searched the Southeast Kentucky coal mine for 11 miners missing after an explosion that previously killed 15. Two rescued workers reported others alive. officials corrected reports of a cavein and noted the mine’s 60 inch seam and efforts to create new air passages.
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Oven Fork
Kentucky
Herschel Potter
U.S Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration
Scotia
O.W. Harris
Harris
Miner declares fearlessness as blast traps him at Scotia mine
Owen Fork Kentucky AP report notes James Sturgill saying he is not afraid to enter mines after 15 coworkers died in a first blast at Scotia Coal Co. He then disappeared hours later along with 10 others trapped by a second explosion. Sturgill had volunteered to shore up the roof and his cousin Jimmy Sturgill was among the initial victims.
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Earl Galloway
Owen Fork
James Sturgill
The
Scotia Coal Co
Sturgill
Sturgills
Weather Outlook For Middletown Rain Through Tuesday
Rain remains likely in Middletown tonight and tomorrow with temperatures dipping into the 30s tonight and highs in the 40s on Saturday. The extended outlook shows showers daily from Sunday through Tuesday.
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Middletown
Postal Service curbs mail deliveries in major cities
The Postal Service announced cuts to delivery frequency with Philadelphia Pittsburgh Washington Baltimore Syracuse Utica Buffalo Rochester moving to once a day. Downtown Manhattan will shift to twice daily from three, while other regions trend toward one daily delivery citing empty bags and efficiency concerns.
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New York
New York City
mid-Manhattan
Chase Manhattan Bank
Buffalo
N.Y
Philip Abramowitz
Postal Service
Washington
Memphis
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Baltimore
Richmond
Syracuse
Utica
Rochester
Manhattan
Atlanta
Birmingham
Ala
Charlotte
N.C
Dallas
Houston
Fort Worth
Tex
Tenn
Little Rock
Ark
Miami
Nashville
Medicaid cuts eyed in Ohio to trim 13 services
Columbus Ohio AP cutbacks on 13 medical services for the poor are proposed to keep the state welfare budget balanced. Raymond McKenna says letters were sent to 26 organizations seeking comments by March 22. The plan also includes lower nursing home payments and a projected 1977 budget of 451 million with 508 million in medicaid costs.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Welfare Department
Department
Raymond McKenna
McKenna
General Assembly
Lebanon president defies coup as loyalist forces surround palace
President Suleiman Franjieh rejects a resignation order from army officers who announced a military takeover. Brig. Aziz Ahdab, proclaiming provisional ruler, struggles to win broad support while Franjieh relies on loyalist troops and Christian garrisons in Mount Lebanon. The high command remains silent as the standoff unfolds.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Suleiman Franjieh
Franjieh
Aziz Ahdab
Ahdab
Hamma
Mount Lebanon
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Klink
Oxford
Public Service
Dick Goecke
Wall Alley
New City Building
Goecke
Clinton Street
Wendt
Ann Landers
Comics County
State
Heloise
Area
Miner
Jimmy Sturgill
McKenna’s
Rashid Karami
Karami
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