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Patrol focuses on motorcycle safety and enforcement
COLUMBUS — May is National Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month and the Ohio State Highway Patrol would like to remind motorists that there will be an increase in motorcycles on the roadways with the warmer weather and to remind motorcyclists to ride endorsed, trained and sober. From 2010-2012, motorcycle-involved crashes resulted in 509 fatalities and more than 11,480 injuries in the state of Ohio. In 2012 alone there were 165 motorcycle-rela...
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Man charged with possessing dangerous ordinances
GALLIPOLIS — A Gallia County man indicted nearly three years ago for the unlawful possession of a dangerous ordinance was recently arraigned in the Common Pleas Court of Gallia County. Donovan L. Blake, 40, Gallipolis, pleaded not guilty to knowingly acquiring, having, carrying or using approximately 10 DuPont Electric Detonators on February 23, 2010, a fifth degree felony. According to the police report, after receiving word that Blake w...
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Man who caused lockdown of schools now in custody
CENTENARY — A fleeing felon who sent two schools into lockdown Monday morning was finally arrested on Thursday at a residence in Centenary, according to Gallia County Sheriff Joe Browning. David McCormick, 39, Gallipolis, was arrested without incident on Thursday morning, according to Browning, after deputies successfully made contact with the suspect at a residence in the Green Terrace Court in Centenary. McCormick, who had felony warran...
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Gallia man arraigned on drug charges
GALLIPOLIS — A Gallia County man alleged to have cultivated marijuana at a residence in Cheshire where methamphetamine was also being manufactured last year, was arraigned in the Gallia County Common Pleas Court on Tuesday. Marshall R. Klein, 19, Bidwell, formerly of Cheshire, pleaded not guilty to one count of the cultivation of marijuana, a fifth degree felony, on Tuesday after he was allegedly knowingly cultivating marijuana, a total of ...
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Woman sentenced for receiving stolen property, tampering
GALLIPOLIS — A Gallia County woman charged with receiving stolen property and tampering with evidence in two separate felony cases was recently sentenced to serve time in the Ohio Reformatory for Women. Chelsea Laws, 22, Bidwell, was sentenced on Friday in the Gallia County Common Pleas Court to serve an 11 month sentence for receiving stolen property in a 2011 case and a six month sentence for attempted tampering with evidence in a 2012 ca...
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Unemployment rates continue to decline in Meigs, Gallia
OHIO VALLEY — Unemployment rates in both Gallia and Meigs counties continued to decline in March, marking two consecutive months of declining rates. Meigs County saw a little more than a half percent decrease to 12.2 percent. The county had been at 12.8 percent in February, and 14.4 percent in January. The rate is still higher than the December 2012 rate of 10.9 percent. Gallia County’s unemployment rate fell from 8.6 percent in February ...
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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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