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Schools on lockdown after suspect flees
CENTENARY — Two schools in Gallia County were locked down on Monday morning as deputies with the Gallia County Sheriff’s Office and the Rio Grande Police Department’s K-9 unit searched for a felony suspect on the run. Reportedly, Gallia Academy High School and adjacent Green Elementary School in Centenary were locked down at approximately 9:30 a.m. on Monday after a Gallia County man, living in the nearby Green Terrance Court mobile home pa...
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DJFS seeks summer program participation
GALLIPOLIS — The Gallia County Department of Job and Family Services (DJFS) is looking to follow-up on a very successful year for their summer youth employment program and is encouraging interested youth to participate in this year’s program. The summer youth employment program allows area business to hire local low-income youth, ages 15-24, for the summer and to be completely reimbursed for the wages expended for the youth involved. Acco...
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Meigs DAR regent attends state conference
POMEROY — Opal Greuser, regent of Return Jonathan Meigs Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), attended the 114th annual conference of the Ohio Society, National DAR, held recently in Columbus. The conference opened with a banquet on Friday night which included period music played by Bob Bellamy on his hammer dulcimer and the National Defense address by Charlotte Marky. Exhibits were displayed for viewing by those attending. ...
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Officials respond to pipe bomb near Danville
MEIGS COUNTY — Officials with the Meigs County Sheriff’s Office, Salem Township Fire Department and the Columbus Bomb Squad responded to a call of a pipe bomb at a residence near Danville on the west end of Meigs County Saturday afternoon according to Meigs County Sheriff Keith Wood. Deputy Mark Griffin said that a call came into the Sheriff’s Office at approximately 3:30 p.m. on Saturday from a female on the western end of Meigs County. ...
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Deputies, CPS investigate community drug tips
MEIGS COUNTY — Deputies have been busy this week investigating several children’s services tips. Meigs County County Sheriff Keith Wood reports that his office, along with Child Protective Services, responded to a call in Dexter on Monday, April 22, resulting in the arrest of Shane Caudil. Child Protective Services received information stating that Caudil had been collecting the materials needed to produce methamphetamine and intended to ...
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Local Boston Strong Run set for Sunday
POINT PLEASANT —Local runners will honor the victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon tragedy with a Boston Strong Run on Sunday, April 28. The informal run starts at 2 p.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church in Point Pleasant. Organizers are encouraging all local runners in the tri-county area to join them for what’s been called the “Boston Strong Mason, Gallia, Meigs Run.” The Boston Strong Run is part of a movement across the country to rem...
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Swedish TV crew filming C8 documentary
OHIO VALLEY — The C8 contamination that has spread throughout the Mid-Ohio Valley has evolved into a global concern. Next week a documentary film crew from Swedish National Television will be visiting the area to interview people on all sides of the controversy. C8, also known as PFOA or perfluorooctanoic acid, was detected in local drinking water supplies in 2001 and 2002. The discovery led to a class action lawsuit against DuPont brought ...
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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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Chamber director shares new developments, goals
GALLIA COUNTY —In an effort to highlight regional successes as part of the annual Progress edition found inside this publication, the Gallipolis Daily Tribune recently had the chance to catch up with Gallia County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Lorie Neal, to talk about the year so far for Gallia County. 2012 was a good year; how has 2013 been so far? Neal: This has been another good year so far. Progress is occurring in G...
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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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Second day of Corfias murder trial comes to close
GALLIPOLIS — Following day two of testimony in the jury trial against the man accused in the murder of Thomas Marr last year, the state rested its case. The prosecution, led by Gallia County Assistant Prosecutor Eric Mulford, called their final three witnesses on Tuesday in the matter of the State of Ohio versus Semaki G. Corfias. Corfias, 52, Gallipolis, stands accused of stabbing and killing Thomas Marr on the morning of February 22, 20...
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Preliminary hearings scheduled for educators
POINT PLEASANT — Two educators both accused of child abuse regarding one of their students have preliminary hearings scheduled on the same day. Both James E. Jones, II, 52, Point Pleasant, and Dwayne R. Russell, 35, Letart, are set to appear in Mason County Magistrate Court at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., respectively, on April 30. Jones will appear before Magistrate Cheryl Miller Ross and Russell will appear before Magistrate Gail Roush. Prelimin...
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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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Update: WRC escapee in custody
CHESHIRE — A Bidwell man who left the Gallia County Work Release Center without permission early this morning is now in custody, according the the Gallia County Sheriff’s Office. Gallia County Sheriff Joe Browning said Joshua D. Burke, 32, of Bidwell, left the facility around 12:30 a.m., but he was taken into sheriff’s custody at approximately 12:30 p.m. today. According to the Gallia County Sheriff’s website, Burke was arrested in Januar...
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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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Work resumes on U.S. 35 in Putnam County
MASON COUNTY — Upgrades to one of the area’s most talked about 14 miles of road are closer to completion with crews resuming work this week to a section of U.S. 35. The remaining 2.4 miles of upgrades are from the Buffalo Bridge to Plantation Rd. in Putnam County. Work had been halted back in January due to some utilities which were in the way of constructing a piling wall - issues which have been resolved so work could resume. Upgrades t...
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