Piketon News

MANSFIELD -- Gary and Carol Grogg, who own and operate Gary's Discount Outlet in the West Park Shopping Center, pride themselves on looking for great deals and passing it on to their customers.

As of today, 264 employees at The Brown Co. of Waverly LLC are without jobs. Because of what Brown plant manager Scott Beisner, in a letter to Waverly Mayor Dale Reed, called 'the result of Brown's failure to obtain additional capital and business over the last few months,' the company has been in negotiations to sell the automotive and metal ...

PIKETON --The OSU South Centers Endeavor Center, Shyville Road, is offering a free USDA BioPreferred Program from 9 to 10 a.m. Thursday.

Under the category of keeping the pressure on, House Minority Leader John Boehner last week wrote to President Barack Obama urging him to make good on past promises to support a federal loan guarantee needed to finance a uranium-enrichment plant in Piketon, Ohio.

The Fourth District Court of Appeals will convene at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 12 in the Pike County Common Pleas Courtroom at the courthouse in Waverly to consider cases from Athens, Jackson and Washington counties.

The Ohio Senate recently approved a resolution sponsored by State Senator John Carey of Wellston, which urges the federal government to take action to ensure that two critical advanced energy development projects in Southern Ohio have the resources necessary to move forward.

In SVC action Friday night, Westfall blanked Huntington 31-0, and Adena defeated Piketon 21-14. Paint Valley walked away with a 57-26 win over Unioto.

LATA/Parallax Portsmouth, LLC and the Garnet A. Wilson Public Library in Waverly have announced a partnership they hope will enhance the quality of the work force and attract new workers.

Less than two years ago, Charles Zan of Miamisburg reconnected with Charles Ernst, his long-lost son in Germany.

Editor, the Gazette: My husband and I have lived in Pike County for almost 45 years.

The Gazette Staff Normally, weekends are for entertainment, a bit of a break from the stresses and hassles of the work week.

Sen. Sherrod Brown says employees who toiled at two former nuclear weapons sites in Ohio in Fernald and Piqua should face less red tape in obtaining compensation for illnesses caused by their exposure to dangerous materials.

Illegal narcotics and drug abuse instuments confiscated. The Pike County Sheriff's Office responded to a report of an assault occurring at 180 Good Manner Road in Piketon.

For the first time since 2004, the Village of Piketon is not deemed by the state to be in a fiscal emergency.

A Piketon man was killed early this morning in a one-vehicle crash in Pike County, according to the State Highway Patrol.

The village was placed in fiscal emergency five years ago based on significant deficits.

For the first time in a while, Westfall finally had everybody healthy during its 25-21, 25-11, 25-14 SVC win against Piketon.

A promise earlier this year by the Department of Energy to give USEC $45 million in research funding as a stop gap until the Obama administration reconsidered the company's application for a $2 billion federal loan guarantee needed to finance a new uranium enrichment plant in Piketon, Ohio apparently falls in the category of, "not so fast." The ...

For the first time since 2004, the Village of Piketon is not deemed by the state to be in a fiscal emergency.

NEWARK - For Kerry Hamilton, becoming president and chief operating officer of Hospice of Central Ohio was a way to bring effective care to people at the end of their lives.