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Williamstown council awards sidewalk project contract

WILLIAMSTOWN — Williamstown City Council awarded a contract for a sidewalk improvement project and appointed new Bee City members on Tuesday. Mayor Paul Jordan and council member Pat Peters were unable to attend the meeting. Maria Hardy, engineer, said a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) was sent out to engineering companies for the Sidewalk Improvement Project. This project received $100,000 of funding from the state, which will be used to help the city update any sidewalk that isn’t up-to-date or compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Hardy said Burgess and ...

Wood County opens 911 Center bids

PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Commission will be looking at five contracting companies to pick one who will do the renovation work on the former Suddenlink building to turn it into the new Wood County 911 Center. Architect Adam Krason, of ZMM Architects & Engineers of Charleston, appeared before the commission Thursday to open the bids and read the amounts to officials. A number of representatives from the bidding contracting companies were also on hand to listen to the proposals. The commission chose ZMM to design and oversee the renovation of the 18,000-square-foot facility at ...

Police Reports

Reports/Ohio State Highway Patrol ¯ Briley May Steele, 17, of 3156 State Route 555, Little Hocking, was northbound May 1 on Ohio 7 in Warren Township when her 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt ran off the left side of the roadway and struck a ditch. She was cited for operating a vehicle without being in reasonable control of it. ¯ Derek Alan Wenzel, 30, of 104 Morningside Drive, Marietta, was southbound May 6 on Ohio 7, Marietta Township, in the left lane. Conner Lane Thompson, 16, of 760 Market St., Clarington, was turning northbound on Ohio 7 from a private drive. A third car was southbound ...

Police reports

Reports/Washington County ¯ A deputy began an investigation Saturday into services paid for home repair and the work not being done. ¯ A deputy was dispatched Saturday to Whipple Run Road, Liberty Township, to a report of an altercation at that location with three individuals. Robert Warden, Russell Preston, and a female reported Warden being attacked by James Ash. The subjects stated that Ash struck Warden in the head with a cane, causing a large cut above his right eye. Ash states he went to the residence as asked by another individual. This subject went into the home and ...

Dems flip abortion fight, seek to legalize abortion in Ohio

Ohio House legislators say they intend to flip the legislative narrative in the state, pushing for a state constitutional amendment legalizing abortion in opposition to the many bans being considered. State Reps. Michele Lepore-Hagan, D-Youngstown, and Jessica Miranda, D-Forest Park, face a hard fight to get the measure through a General Assembly currently encompassed by a Republican supermajority, and one that has introduced multiple “trigger” bans that, if passed, would take effect in the event the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade is overturned or changed. Under the ...

Fire Marshal asking for help with arson case

PATRIOT — The Division of State Fire Marshal Fire Explosion and Investigation Bureau is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying the individual(s) responsible for arson at 1252 Dry Ridge Road in Patriot, Ohio. At approximately 4:15 a.m., April 23, Greenfield Township Volunteer ...