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A nonprofit with a staff of three has quietly become one of the central players in the rebirth of the former Portsmouth uranium enrichment plant, having received more than 350 acres of federal land at the Piketon site for transfer into local hands, according to the Scioto Valley Guardian’s reporting on a U.S. Department of […]
SOUTH POINT — Ronald West, who served as mayor of South Point, died Tuesday at age 87. West was appointed to fill a term as mayor, then was elected to […]
Gallia Academy’s dream volleyball season added a first on Saturday: the Blue Angels swept Wheelersburg 25-16, 25-13, 25-15 in a Division IV regional final at Logan to claim the first regional championship in program history, SOSA Ohio reported. Gallia Academy (26-0) stayed perfect on the season, while Wheelersburg’s year ended at 22-4, according to SOSA […]
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — Scioto County Sheriff David Thoroughman has been named to a state advisory committee that will help oversee recovery housing residences across Ohio, giving Scioto County a seat in decisions about how sober-living facilities are certified and regulated statewide. Thoroughman attended his first meeting of the Recovery Housing Residence Advisory Committee at the […]
Fire, police protection levies passed in villages Voters in villages and townships across the county approved several levies on Tuesday. However, a school levy for Collins Career and Technical Center […]
Only a fumble on the final play of the first half kept Highlands’ top-ranked Bluebirds from a 50-lead at halftime Friday against an outmanned Boyd County team in the opening night of the Class 4A KHSAA playoffs.
One year after the Ohio High School Athletic Association removed them from the playoffs altogether, the Ironton Fighting Tigers opened their postseason return with a statement. Top-seeded Ironton blanked No. 9 seed Ridgewood 42-0 on Friday night in a Division V, Region 19 regional quarterfinal at home in Ironton — a final reported identically by […]
Wheelersburg’s defense has turned the first two rounds of the playoffs into a shutout streak. The fifth-seeded Pirates went on the road Friday night and blanked fourth-seeded South Point 44-0 in a Division V, Region 19 quarterfinal. The final score was confirmed on the statewide scoreboards published by The Columbus Dispatch, the Mansfield News Journal, […]