Wheelersburg News

Bridgett Berry and Ruth Stewart check out some of the items available at the Merchant Expo at the SOMC Life Center on Saturday.

Scioto County Coroner Dr. Terry Johnson addresses those in attendance at the prescription drug abuse town hall meeting in Wheelersburg Monday night.

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

According to information presented Oct. 21 at the Prescription Drug Overdose Epidemic regional meeting held at the Scioto County Welcome Center, in 2008, Scioto County was number two per capita in prescription drug overdose deaths out of 88 Ohio counties.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency this week is completing a $200,000 cleanup project at Scioto Sanitation landfill in Wheelersburg, and advises nearby residents to have their well water tested.

The case is closed and murder/suicide has been ruled in the death of two people in May, in Scioto County.

COSHOCTON -- The all-day All-Ohio Choral Festival will end with a one-hour concert at 7 p.m. Saturday at The Presbyterian Church.

He packed a pistol and packed away the Pine Tree Carryouta s cash register. For this he will spend the next eight years packed away in a prison cell.

I have just read an e-mail from my friend Bob Walton Jr., and I have decided it is time to go ahead and talk about the number one problem in our community.

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PORTSMOUTH a ' A Scioto County jury found David Hamilton guilty Friday in the Feb.

If David Hamilton ever sees the outside of a prison, it will not be for at least 30 years.

"It can peak very quickly in two, three or four weeks," Pediatrician Dr. John Ditraglia told those in attendance at Monday night's H1N1 Town Hall Meeting at Shawnee State University.

Under the clock, Ironton City Council tentatively backed a proposal that would provide sewer access to nearly 15 acres of land city officials, Realtors and developers hope to annex from Upper Township for possible commercial development.

Mary Arnzen, executive director of the Ohio River Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross in Portsmouth, said she is hoping to add an additional 50 volunteers to the chapter's list.

Flooding was major headache for the area, and dam construction to alleviate the flooding was big news in 1968.

WHEELERSBURG -- The Ohio Highway Patrol is investigating a one-vehicle crash that killed a Franklin Furnace man Tuesday.

An Ohio man is dead after an accident Monday evening. Ohio State Highway Patrol officers said the accident was reported at 7 p. m. on Sheldon Cartro Road in Wheelersburg.

WHEELERSBURG - Tom Barrick, a 1980 graduate of River View High School and son of Sandy and the late Ron Barrick of Coshocton, has two daughters serving as homecoming queens this weekend.

Students at Green Local Schools have a little more room to move this week, as the district opened modular units to serve overcrowded school buildings.