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Jewett adjusts curfew for October, bans 4-wheelers By JD LONG
jim@harrisonnewsherald.com JEWETT – The village of Jewett, in response to complaints and petty defiances mostly involving juveniles, the council Wednesday evening announced a curfew of 9 p.m. for the month of October. Chief of Police Ron Carter said during his regular report that there were 48 calls involving various infractions and complaints just for the month of September. As talk moved to park business Carter said it was relatively quiet all summer but “all of a sudden August and September unleashed on us.” Carter said he’s told his officers about the
ones they’ve already warned that the next time they’ll be cited for being unruly. “We tried doing it the nice way, we spoke with parents but if the parents aren’t doing anything then we’ve got to do something,” Carter told council. Mayor Dwight Busby said the curfew would return to 10 p.m. in November. Members of council also decided to ban 4-wheelers in village limits. Carter said complaints were coming in for this as well. “Handfuls of them at a time going up High Street the wrong way,” Carter stated. “They ran a car off the curb the other night.” Village Solicitor Jenna Hokes reminded council they’d already decided it wasn’t worth pursuing individuals outside
village limits. But Council Member Rick Meneely said there has to be a solution “you can’t just let them go.” Carter said they would begin enforcing the 4-wheeler rules acknowledging that it wasn’t “fair to everybody but I can’t pick and choose whose going to get citations… ” Also, Charley Harris provided an update on the village’s ongoing water line project where only three meters remain to be installed. And much of the paving is done with a few places still remaining to be paved by Border Patrol. Mike Hodges of E.L. Robinson, the company who contracted Border Patrol to pave the streets torn up by line replacements, followed
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with his own report. Hodges gave a rundown of what exactly had been completed and what was left. He told council that there was $200,000 in the contingency fund where seven areas were either completed or remain to be paved. Those include Cross Street, Arbaugh Road (done), Stahl Street, Euclid Ave., Rumley Street, Cross Street and Statler Ave. He said these streets were all approved for the work with the overlays costing $57,000. Hodges came up with more streets that could possibly be paved is the alley near the old school and the section by Pennington’s, as well as the “extension that goes up towards Water Street.” Hodges said parts of Main Street,
Cadiz and lower Cadiz Streets would be done and a few others if possible. Clerk Treasurer Linda Ager said she hoped village residents would appreciate everything that has been done up till now. Meneely went further and encouraged businesses to look at Jewett considering the new infrastructure that’s been installed. “Now we invite any business looking to start up, come to Jewett. We’ve got new water lines, new streets, new sewage, new water tank, new plant. We’ve got everything we need except businesses,” he said. All of council raved about the work both E.L. Robinson and Border Patrol has done for the village.
Scio approves COVID relief fund plan By JD LONG
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SCIO – The Scio village council met for a special session Monday evening to discuss what to do with the more than $26,000 they are to receive for COVID relief funding. Council Member Erin Thompson gave a synopsis of the coronavirus relief plan, which lists among other things, decontamination of the wastewater treatment plant. “Village workers…need an area to be able to properly decontaminate themselves after exposure to waste products that could potentially have COVID-19,” according to the plan. Thompson reminded council the total coming to them is $26,351.61 and said the first priority after meeting with the committee, was the wastewater treatment plant. An estimated cost for that project was listed at $7,500 but Thompson quoted a figure of $7,462.40, only a slight difference. Thompson also covered the possibility of going back to holding meetings via videoconference noting the need for four to five computers if that happens. A cost of around $529 per computer was quoted, which would be followed by uploading costs and new software for a total of approximately $3,000. The need is mainly for new laptops as,
“our essential village worker’s [sic] will need the means to work from home.” New chairs for the office will need to be ordered as Thompson later explained that the cloth-backed chairs can’t be properly sanitized and will need replaced. “The chairs will be replaced with vinyl or heavy-duty plastic to ensure a safe and productive decontamination,” according to the plan as written. That cost was said to be $1,000. Also, four air purifiers are being looked at for the office to help fight airborne COVID threats at a listed cost of $3,600. Thompson said they would have to be portable because they cannot place something like that on the furnace since they do not own the building. PPE equipment was also covered with an estimated cost of $1,000 for all of their village facilities. She said an allotment for wastewater testing couldn’t be given because they don’t know as of now, what that would cost but Village Administrator Jason Tubaugh said he had found out the cost of that. It was also said that money from one allotment could be moved to another project if the full anticipated funds have not been spent. The final estimate was given for grant
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Cadiz discusses COVID policy, election-tax issue By JD LONG
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Harrison Central High School’s2020 Homecoming Queen, Kate Crothers and King Kobe Mitchell. Harrison Central High School celebrated this annual homecoming with the crowning of Queen and King prior to the start of Friday’s football game against the St. Clairsville Red Devils. Kate Crothers and Kobe Mitchell each selected the odd colored rose to be crowned Queen and King for 2020. Crowning this year’s queen was Lexi Carter, 2019 Homecoming Queen. Queen candidates included Abbi Jozwiak, Lexi Ferguson, Audrey Corder and Abbi Kelley. Class attendants were Freshman Ava Carson; Sophomore Maddy Butler and Junior McKayla Dunkle. King candidates included Wyatt Wilson, Jack Novotny, Skylar Mazeroski, and Sam Santille. nderclass attendants were Freshman Nathan Frye, Sophomore Jace Madzai and Junior Ben Puskarich.
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CADIZ – Last week the Cadiz village council got around to discussing COVID policy and what to do with sick workers. Council Member Eric Miller raised the issue and asked if Wastewater Superintendent Tom Carter has the authority to tell an employee to get tested. The discussion ultimately turned into a long winded debate where Village Solicitor Costa D. Mastros said there wasn’t anything preventing the development of a protocol for such a matter but did say the village doesn’t have a policy covering this.
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Another supplemental matter was who pays for the test. Mastros said it would go through the village’s insurance but Miller wasn’t sure. After some back and forth Andrzejewski said whatever would be done would be the right thing. “We’re talking about technicality, we’re going to do the right thing. The right thing is have the person go get tested,” he told council. “If we have to pay a hundred dollars, it’s worth our while to pay a hundred dollars so we know whether a person is sick or not.” His message for Carter and Street
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