Coal Grove News

Claudette Allen parked her car near the old Melvin's Service Center lot on Marion Pike and waited in the chill with an expectation of something really neat.

It was a perfect night for a parade - cold, crisp and clear. And it seemed as if all of Ironton turned out Monday night for the city's annual holiday tradition: The Lions Club Christmas Parade.

I recently received word that a fellow Hornet, John Bill Deeds, had experienced a setback in his health.

I remember very well the first day of school the year I started third grade at Monitor School in Coal Grove.

PAINT VALLEY 58, COAL GROVE 55: The Bearcats rolled to their first nonleague win of the season in overtime Friday at the fifth annual Lady Cats Classic.

COAL GROVE a ' Dr. Doyle Jones, international evangelist, author and lecturer will be conducting services at the Trinity Assembly of God Church starting Nov.

Despite gas prices being nearly 90 cents a gallon higher than they were a year ago, holiday travel throughout the Tri-State is expected to be at par to where it was in 2008, officials from AAA said Tuesday.

It's back for a second season giving youth another choice when it comes to playing basketball.

Theft, drugs and probation violations topped the docket last week in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court.

She grew up with four siblings - Alvin , Dorothy, Faye, and Forrest . Effie is the mother of one daughter, Janet McKenzie.

It was like closing your eyes and taking a step back in time - at least for three hours.

If ever an organization completely and fully lived up to its name, it would have to be the Coal Grove Betterment Club.

The Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board and Capitol Square Foundation welcomed Dawson-Bryant High School from Coal Grove to the Ohio Statehouse on November 4. Dawson-Bryant High School was the recipient of a school bus transportation grant.

Voters in Coal Grove left the Dawson-Bryant Board of Education intact, re-electing all three incumbents to additional four-year terms.

A trio of new members will join an incumbent in taking their seats on the Coal Grove Village Council in 2010, according to unofficial results from the Lawrence County Board of Elections.

One of more than 20 people arrested in a drug sweep pleaded guilty Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court.

Voters in Lawrence County, Ohio said yes to three of four levies on the ballot Tuesday.

Ohio polls closed at 7:30 p.m. and shortly after, a small group of interested spectators had gathered on the steps inside the Lawrence County Courthouse.

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Two women accused of drug offenses were among those pleading guilty Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court.