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Masterworks Chorale delivers ‘A Night with Gilbert & Sullivan’
RIO GRANDE — The annual spring concert of the University of Rio Grande’s Masterworks Chorale will feature the acclaimed work of W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan, in conjunction with the Voice Studio of Valerie Tanner and Acting I students. The free concert is scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday, April 28 in the Berry Fine and Performing Arts Center’s Alphus Christensen Theatre. “I am so excited about this semester’s collaboration between the choral...
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Online Cutest Kids Contest begins Sunday
OHIO VALLEY — Do you think your kids are cute? Maybe your grandchild is just the most adorable angel? Well, the “Cutest Kids Contest”, sponsored by The Daily Sentinel, Gallipolis Daily Tribune and Point Pleasant Register, can give you those bragging rights in southeast Ohio. Beginning Sunday, April 28, you can enter your child or grandchild through one of our local news websites, www.mydailysentinel.com, www.mydailytribune.com or www.my...
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<p>Meigs Local School Board member Ron Logan presents awards for achievements to Olivia Goble and Austin Mahr.</p>
Meigs Board recognizes achievements, awards contracts
POMEROY — Recognition of outstanding students and the awarding of contracts to teaching and administrative personnel for the 2013-14 school year were highlights of Tuesday night’s meeting of the Meigs Local Board of Education at the Meigs Intermediate School. Preceding the business session, several students were recognized for academic accomplishments and service in the new “Giving Back” program started at the Intermediate school this year ...
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Four arrested following drug discovery
SYRACUSE — A traffic stop for running a stop sign turned into much more on Tuesday evening. Syracuse Police Chief Garry Freed and Patrolman Mike Smith conducted a traffic stop at 8:01 p.m. Tuesday after a vehicle failed to stop at a stop sign located at Worchester and Second streets in the Village of Syracuse. That stop resulted in the discovery of drugs, syringes and drug paraphernalia. The driver of the vehicle was identified as John ...
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John Carey
Carey named Ohio Chancellor of the Board of Regents
COLUMBUS — One of the most familiar faces on the campus of Shawnee State University, and a former southern Ohio voice in the Ohio House of Representatives, is about to embark on the next step in his career. John Carey, Assistant to the President for Government Relations and Strategic Initiatives at Shawnee State University, was tapped late Tuesday afternoon by Ohio Governor John Kasich to serve as Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents. As...
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‘Not guilty’ verdicts returned in Corfias murder trial
GALLIPOLIS — Following nearly three days of testimony, a jury found Semaki G. Corfias not guilty of murder and tampering with evidence on Wednesday afternoon. Following nearly four hours of deliberation, a jury returned with its not guilty verdict for Corfias, 52, Gallipolis, who was alleged to have stabbed and killed Thomas Marr last February at Marr’s residence near Kanauga. Marr, 29, was found unresponsive by first responders just befo...
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Marcy Craig enters guilty plea, to serve eight years
POMEROY — A year after the crime was committed, the second defendant in the string of gas station robberies has entered a guilty plea to the charges. Marcy R. Craig, 38, formerly of Long Bottom, entered a guilty plea to the three-count indictment. Craig had been scheduled to stand trial next week on the charges. Craig was charged with three counts of aggravated robbery for aiding and abetting her brother, Alex, in three armed robberies ...
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Middleport to seek funding for riverfront trail
MIDDLEPORT – Another step toward developing a mile-long walking and bike trail along the Ohio River from the Dairy Queen to Custer Street has been taken by Middleport Village Council. At Monday night’s meeting, Council appointed Mayor Michael Gerlach to serve as agent in applying for funding for the project. To have an agent is a requirement before applications can be filed. It was emphasized in the meeting that the trail development will...
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Officer resigns from Pomeroy Police Department
POMEROY — The Pomeroy Police Officer at the center of a controversy involving the now former Mayor of Pomeroy earlier this year has resigned from the department. Officer Kyle Calendine’s resignation was approved by a 5-1 vote following a more than 30-minute executive session during Monday’s regular meeting. Calendine was drawn into the national media spotlight briefly in February amid allegations of discrimination against his sexual prefere...
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Hearings, trial set in Marcy Craig and Alex Craig cases
POMEROY — The siblings charged in connection with the armed robbery of three Meigs County gas stations a year ago are due back in a Meigs County court room this month. Alex Craig, 27, formerly of Racine, will be re-sentenced on Wednesday on the final two counts of aggravated robbery. Craig’s hearing is scheduled for 11 a.m. Craig entered a guilty plea in August of 2012 to three counts of aggravated robbery, first degree felonies. At the t...
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National Day of Prayer plans observance
POMEROY — Meigs County’s National Day of Prayer events will kick off Sunday, April 28, at 3 p.m. when Christians from across the county will circle the Meigs County Courthouse and pray for our county and its leaders. At 4 p.m. the traditional reading of the scriptures will begin from the parking lot stage and continue until 10 p.m. and then will be continued on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day. On Thursday, May ...
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Man arrested on drug charges following traffic stop
POMEROY — A traffic stop for an expired license plate led to the discovery of drugs in a vehicle over the weekend. Meigs County Sheriff Keith Wood reports that Roy L. Pierce, Jr., 34, of Racine was arrested on charges of possession of heroin and possessing drug abuse instruments. Deputies stopped Pierce on Main Street in Pomeroy near the car wash for an expired license plate. After approaching the vehicle, deputies learned Pierce also had...
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<p>Gallipolis Police Officers and Deputies with the Gallia County Sheriff&#8217;s Office were once again on scene at discovered meth lab on Wednesday. A total of six meth lab gas generators and four one-pot labs were located at a residence in the 100 block of Fourth Avenue and were quickly neutralized by law enforcement.</p>
City police, deputies neutralize meth labs
GALLIPOLIS — Another meth lab was located in the City of Gallipolis last week, this time in the 100 block of Fourth Avenue. According to a release issued by the Gallipolis Police Department, at approximately 11:19 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17 after receiving two separate tips that there was a subject manufacture meth at a residence in the 100 block of Fourth Avenue in the city, working together, officers with the police department and Deputi...
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‘Back to Eden’ book signing set for Sunday
POMEROY — Dr. Frank W. Porter, who for the past 25 years has been collecting seeds and plants of native species from the Ohio Valley and growing them in display gardens at Porterbrook Native Plants in Letart Falls, has a new book out titled “Back to Eden.” At 2 p.m. on Sunday at the Meigs County Library in Pomeroy, he will present a slide show and lecture about landscaping and do a book signing. He is dedicated to rediscovering the plants t...
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Meth lab brought to Sheriff’s Office, deactivated
POMEROY — Meigs County Sheriff Keith Wood reports that an active methamphetamine lab was deactivated in a vehicle in the area of the Meigs County Sheriff’s Office on Second Street in Pomeroy on Thursday evening. Wood said a container with a tube coming out of the top was located by two residents in the Long Bottom area near their driveway. The suspicious container was brought to the sheriff’s office by the residents in a personal vehicle to...
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