McArthur News

An Athens woman was killed in a two-vehicle accident Thursday on U.S 50 near Milepost 26 in Vinton County.

The route is closed east of McArthur until noon today. A fatal traffic accident in Vinton County, has closed U.S. Route 50 six miles east of McArthur.

As budgetary concerns are being raised on all levels of government, Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Mavis said the city is in pretty good fiscal shape heading into the second half of 2009.

The eighth annual Appalachian Music Festival is ready to fill the air with music Saturday at Pike Lake State Park.

If pilot Nick Rupert was unsettled by the black cat crisscrossing the sidewalk leading from the control tower to Vinton County Airport's lone runway, he didn't betray it.

Two local high school students graduated from a nontraditional high school Saturday, and they feel their experiences have prepared them for the world of work and college.

A McArthur man will appear in Vinton County Court today on charges connected to a June 4 arrest on drug charges.

Two clerks at the Cross Creek Convenience Store on U.S. 50 in Vinton County were robbed at gunpoint Friday.

McARTHUR - A Vinton County man was hit with three charges after a Monday incident at his home.

A band who has opened for John Mellencamp, Sheryl Crow and Jason Aldean and has shared stage dates with the Dave Matthews Band will perform tonight to kick off the Wild Turkey Festival in McArthur.

McArthur will take on a decidedly Celtic appearance Friday through Sunday when 'A Spring Literary Arts Festival: A Gathering of the Clans' takes place.

A McArthur man has been taken into custody in connection with an April 1 burglary of a residence on U.S. 50 in Vinton County.

THURSDAY, MARCH 26 8:23 A.M. Complainant reported sometime two weeks ago, an unknown subject tipped his motorcycle over on Fairview Avenue, resulting in $5,200 in damages.

From Susana Raab's "Consumed" series. Trash overflows a container at a local street festival in McArthur, Ohio, 2005.

The McArthur Fire Department battled two large brush fires over the weekend. The department responded to the Siverly Creek and Locust Grove area brush fire during the early evening hours of March 27.

MCARTHUR - Rev. James T. Patterson, age 82, of McArthur, Ohio, passed from this life on Friday morning, March 20, 2009, at the Twin Maples Nursing Home in McArthur.

MCARTHUR - Harlis Ray Laferty, 68, of McArthur, passed away Sunday, March 15, 2009 at his residence.

McARTHUR - The Friends of the Herbert Wescoat Memorial Library in Vinton County are sponsoring the Linda Ogle Russ Memorial Writing Contest in support of its annual Spring Literary Arts Festival the weekend of ...

Melvin Perry 'Bud' Goss, 72, of Rockbridge, died Monday, Feb. 9, 2009, at his residence.

The southern Ohio county of Vinton is served by entirely volunteer fire departments.