Nelsonville News

MIDDLEPORT a ' A man shot by a former Middleport police officer following a chase on Ohio 7 has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for fleeing.

ZANESVILLE - The Zanesville Police Department believes that a man wanted in multiple counties for various offenses, including robbery, may be in Zanesville.

Morgan County commissioners voted unanimously this morning to close most county offices every Friday, starting next week, to save money in the financially strapped southeastern Ohio county.

The Nelsonville Bypass in southeastern Ohio is the largest project to be approved through the federal transportation stimulus program of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act , in Ohio.

NELSONVILLE - The Foundation for Appalachian Ohio is pleased to announce 2009 scholarship recipients, including one from Ross County.

Ohio passed a stimulus mile marker Friday when it received word that transportation projects totaling more than $336 million had been approved by the Federal Highway Administration.

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.

"I will tell you that I dont believe in gay marriage." "I believe in civil unions but it should not be called marriage." Then Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said that during a campaign stop in Nelsonville, Ohio a day before the Super II Tuesday primary in March 2008.

President Barack Obama's $787 billion economic spending package reached Ohio's roads Monday when construction crews began work on a highway project in Cleveland.

An economic ax has fallen on a 35-year tradition of autumn outdoor recreation festivals at a college in southeast Ohio.

Erica Severance probably would have received probation like any other Athens County parent recently charged with failing to send her children to school.

MANSFIELD: Edward Eugene Nixon, 80, of Mansfield, died Saturday, May 30, 2009 at Crystal Care Center following a short illness.

Thu, May 28, 2009. 04:20 PM A preliminary hearing was held Thursday for a Perry County man who admitted shooting his mother after a dispute last week.

I hope that millions of tourists will head to Ohio in the summer to inflate our sales-tax receipts.

A Columbus lawyer wants Hocking College to pay for a trustee's destruction of public records.

At first blush, a series of sweeping corrections reforms proposed by Gov. Ted Strickland would seem to be good ideas, but there is large concern about the potential impact on local communities.

For more information: 753-1924, www.nelsonvillefest.org or www.stuartsoperahouse.org. Stuart's Opera House will present the fifth annual Nelsonville Music Festival Friday through Sunday at Robbins Crossing Historic Village on the Hocking College campus in Nelsonville.

Ron Erickson takes over the two-year public technical school in Nelsonville on July 1. He replaces 78-year-old John Light.

Work: Highway and other heavy construction, airport runway extensions, house construction, facility remodeling, mine reclamation and more.

A Logan man has been charged in the death of a Columbus man in rural Hocking County.