Piketon News

Miami Trace finished 6th rank in the state. The Panthers who won the SCOL baseball title & a sectional championship are next in action Tuesday night against Warren Local in the district semi-finals at Ohio University in Athens.

Fern Helton Bandy, 81, of Waverly, Ohio, went to be with the Lord Friday May 10, 2013.

Ohio consumers can buy locally grown strawberries as early as the first week of May and as late as October, thanks to an emerging production practice called plasticulture .

A newly filed evaluation of the Huntington Pilot Plant contains acknowledgement of previously questioned data concerning the receipt of materials from the three [nuclear ] gaseous diffusion plants and accepts re-cycling of contaminated nickel scrap from where diffusion plant reactors occurred.

Tommy Joe Gifford, 60, of Springfield, formerly of Piketon, died Saturday, April 27, 2013, at home.

In that game, Piketon senior Zach Farmer put his name in the record books as his 13 strikeouts places him second all-time in the state record books with 511 career strikeouts.

The workshop will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Ohio State University South Centers in Piketon, 1864 Shyville Road.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will discuss the agency's most recent review of the "American Centrifuge Lead Cascade Facility," where they determined that USEC "continued to conduct its activities safely and securely." The 6pm meeting at the Comfort Inn at 7525 U.S. 23 will be open to the public, and NRC staff will be available to answer ... (more)

Plans and preparations have been made and the 43rd annual Pike County Dogwood Festival is set to take place in the streets of Piketon from Thursday, April 25 through Sunday, April 28.

* FYI: Keith Terry, of Arkansas, who has toured with Paul Mooney, Pablo Francisco and Michael Buble, will perform to promote his "Pursuit of Happiness" Comedy Tour.