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Athens County Board of Commissioners tour new 911/EMA building
The PLAINS - The Athens County Board of Commissioners took a guided tour Monday of the new 911 Emergency Communications Center and Emergency Management Agency, led by Director of 911 Emergency Communications Teresa Fouts-Imler. Athens County 911 will begin moving dispatchers to the new facility in January, but Fouts-Imler does not wish to do so prematurely as there are still bugs that need to be worked out. Dispatchers will be moved two at a time and Athens County 911 will continue to operate its current...
Pence files notice of appeal in murder conviction
LOGAN — One week after being sentenced to serve 18 years to life in prison for his conviction on murder and other felony charges, a 21-year-old Fairfield County man filed notice that he plans to appeal the outcome of his trial. After a week-long jury trial in Hocking County Common Pleas Court in August Isaac Pence of Carroll, Ohio was convicted of murder, felonious assault, and obstructing justice and tampering with evidence. The charges stemmed from an April 2023 incident at a rental cabin in...
Popular local tavern hosts ‘re-opening’ event
LOGAN — On Saturday a ribbon was cut to mark a grand opening — of sorts — at the Hunter Street Saloon, 885 W. Hunter St. in Logan. The event was billed as a “grand re-opening,” but as owner Crystal Strawser explained, it was really more a celebration of her having finalized sole proprietorship of the business. “I bought out my ex-business partners two years ago, and it’s taken me...
Logan Glass Technologies sued again for unpaid bills
LOGAN — A local manufacturing firm has been hit with another lawsuit over its alleged failure to pay its bills. Logan Glass Technologies was already facing a legal complaint in Hocking County Common Pleas Court from a chemical supply company, Sisecam Chemical Resources LLC, which is seeking more than $173,000 based on the Logan firm’s alleged failure to pay a long-overdue bill for almost 300 tons of bulk soda ash. ...
Indian Mound Festival Queen aspires to be hair stylist
On a gorgeous fall Sunday afternoon after the parade ended, Avery Carter, 17, of Nelsonville, stood out from a total of seven contestants to take home the title of 2024-25 The Plains Indian Mound Festival Queen. Or, to be more accurate, she will take her title on the road. Indian Mound Festival queens are required to participate in a minimum of 15 other fairs and festivals during their 1-year reigns in support of other fair-and-festival royalty in Ohio. ...
Homecoming king and queen crowned at Friday’s game
LOGAN — At Friday night’s Logan High School football game, students Loreli Corbell and Cole Hoffman were chosen as Homecoming queen and king for 2024. Corbell is the daughter of Loretta and Jeremy Schein. She is on the cheerleading team for football and basketball as well as the softball team and the Drug Free Club of America. She plans to begin studies next fall at The Ohio State University to become a radiology technician. ...
SE Ohio Foodbank’s Bringing Healthy Home program sees positive results
ATHENS — In the nearly three years since its inception, SE Ohio Foodbank’s Bringing Healthy Home program has reduced preterm births by nearly 3.6%, according to recently released figures. The program, which strives to improve birth outcomes among underserved women in seven southeast Ohio counties, also showed measurable improvement in increasing infants’ birth weights and in reducing the number of infants admitted to neonatal intensive care units. Since the program’s...
Squatter charged with arson following fires in Parkersburg
WOOD COUNTY, WV (LOOTPRESS) – Man charged with arson after admitting to squatting and then setting fires to two buildings he believed had no real value. On September 9, 2022, Kenneth Sasser Jr. was observed at the scene of two separate structure fires at 520 Camden Street in Parkersburg, Wood County, with ash and soot […]
Athens County burn ban continues
Despite the recent rains received off the tropical storm pattern making its way up the eastern coast, Athens County is still under a burn ban as a result of drought conditions. A ban on open burning was introduced on Sept. 6 due to the county’s identification from the United States Drought Monitoring System as experiencing “extreme drought” or “exceptional drought” conditions. According to a press release from the Ohio Department of Commerce, this designation is still in place. ...
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