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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2018
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Scio names Felgenhauer as new solicitor By JD LONG
jim@harrisonnewsherald.com
SCIO – A new village solicitor will assist the village of Scio beginning next year as Assistant Harrison County Prosecutor Jack Felgenhauer was voted for in place of the out-going Jason Jackson. Mayor Michelle Carpenter asked if council needed more time but they decided to vote for Felgenhauer over one other candidate, who they did not name. Under Carpenter’s recommendation, council agreed on a contract for one year.
Also, councilman Turner said he checked into having the part of the school building they are looking at to keep, inspected for $500. He said things like the roof and furnace would be looked at and given a timeline of what the village could expect, as far as repairs are concerned. Turner made the motion for the inspection of Bar Memorial, which was not to cost above $500, which led to talk of a town meeting “I think we should have a town meeting,” council member Ron Wright suggested. After further discussion council voted to meet on Nov. 20 to go
over the results of the inspection, which was to take place in the next several days, according to Carpenter. Council member Carol Davy said that what came out of the board of education meeting is that if anyone wanted something out of the Scio school before being leveled, they would need to submit a letter to the BOE. “It doesn’t mean they’re going to get it but they need to request it,” Davy explained. Also, Mayor Carpenter said recent Street Committee meeting information needed to be placed in the minutes regarding some streets or alleys, that
won’t be maintained during bad weather. Council member, Andrew Turner said the street committee’s recommendation was for an alley off of Walnut Street, Moore Alley, 2nd Street extension and Lee Street to not be plowed and/or maintained during a snowfall. Some tidbits from Village Administrator Jason Tubaugh’s report: - RCAP training was attended on Oct. 30 for manganese removal and maintenance. - “The training provided valuable testing methodology and techniques that can be utilized at both Village
facilities,” Tubaugh wrote in his report. - The ORC and Tubaugh are discussing additional repairs at the wastewater plant. -The WWTP is now transitioned to the fall-winter treatment procedures per the EPA guidelines. - The water treatment plant projects “is completed as defined in the contract and in accordance with the OEPA bilateral agreement.” Deadline for the completion of the WTP is Dec. 31, 2018. Tubaugh stated that they have exceeded “our goal and completed the project forty eight days ahead of schedule.”
County CIC awarded judgement on 250 gas station By JD LONG
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Veterans honored at Buckeye Local By ESTHER McCOY NH Contributor
Ethan Boroski and Isiah Miro, Boy Scouts at Buckeye Local High School, demonstrated the 13 folds of the American flag at the Veterans Day service held by American Legion posts from Adena, Piney Fork, Brilliant, Dillonvale and Jefferson County Veterans Association. While Allie Berze and Rachel Moore read the history of each fold that honor guards make, the scouts replicated them. The number 13 symbolizes the original 13 colonies. The first is of life, the second a belief in eternal life, the third honor and remembrance of veterans departing ranks and giving a portion of their lives for defense
of the county, the fourth represents the weaker nature as American citizens trusting in God, for it is to Him all turn in times of peace and war. The fifth is a tribute to country, the sixth is where people's hearts lie, the seventh is a tribute to its Armed Forces that protect the flag against enemies, the eighth is a tribute to the one who entered the valley of the shadow of death that we might see the light of day and the ninth is a tribute to mothers, who through their faith, love and loyalty have kept the character of men and women great. The 10th is a tribute to fathers who have given sons and daughters to defense of the country since birth, the 11th represents the lower portion of the seal of King David and Solomon and glorifies God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the 12th
represents an emblem of eternity and glorifies God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. And the 13th, is when the flag is completely folded and the stars are uppermost and a reminder of the motto, "In God We Trust." After folding, the flag takes on a cocked hat appearance, reminding us of soldiers who served under Washington and sailors and Marines under John Paul Jones. Conrad Schuetz and Jaina Demeter gave Veterans Day history. Rodney Roe, local graduate, spoke of his missions in three different branches of services. Bill Carpenter, retired master sergeant in Army Special Forces and John Pugh, Korean veteran and fighter pilot, spoke to students telling them to learn all possible and make a success in whatever they do.
CADIZ - In a meeting that touched on some familiar themes, the Harrison County Community Improvement Corporation (HCCIC) met at the Puskarich Library Tuesday afternoon with all board members providing mostly updates to some long standing issues. Acting solicitor for the County CIC John Tabacchi announced that the court has finally awarded a judgment default regarding the gas station on U.S. 250. Tabacchi explained this move places the property into the hands of the HCCIC but the deed was immediately handed to a group (US TCIC) in Columbus “whose sole purpose is to hold onto distressed properties.” The move is to safeguard the HCCIC from liability during remediation then, once the property is cleaned up, it will be handed back over to the County CIC, according to Tabacchi. “And once the cleanup is done then they’ll transfer it back to us with no liability,” Tabacchi explained. Tabacchi thanked the Stock Township Trustees for their cooperation in the matter, signing on as applicant, which helped in obtaining the grant. He said the grant process could last up to 90 days with remediation beginning anywhere from March to April and lasting approximately two weeks. “Once it’s done then it gets transferred back to the county and then the county can do what they please with it,” Tabacchi repeated. “It will be cleaned, no pollution and it will be ready for whatever use the county wants…” Tabacchi also confirmed that there was to be no stipulations on the use of the property as well. Harrison County Economic Development Director Nick Homrighausen reminded the board that the judgment ruling held the project up “We do appreciate the Stock Township Trustees, we thought they should have ownership and approached them within the project since it is within their township where it’s located,” Homrighausen explained. He added that they don’t expect delays and a long process for any other “projects.” He also said that since the HCCIC did not have a Landbank, they could not retain ownership of the property. Tabacchi also reminded everyone of the complicated process considering the owners of the property left long ago, thereby
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Hopedale discusses school building, thanks VFD HOPEDALE – Wednesday’s Hopedale council meeting discussed some of the same issue as Scio did earlier in the evening. The ambition was for council to take the “white” building attached to the school that will soon be abandoned after Harrison Hills moves into their new building
next August. It was understood that they needed to submit a letter to the board of education. Council member Ron Hawkins informed council, per the school board they need that letter in and everything discussed needed to be included also. “Our request was to keep the sidewalks and all the asphalt as much as possible, if not that they can correct
anything that gets torn up,” Hawkins explained. He said there were no objections from the school. He continued by stating the gas meter and electric “shouldn’t be any problem” and that bonding for the streets would be discussed. “When they get the contractor chosen that will be brought up to make sure they have bonding for the streets,” Hawkins said. Also the contents of the
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The Celebration for Custer’s 179th birthday is just around the corner, set for Dec. 8. Page 8
A select few of Harrison Central students got to take in the sights of Cleveland as a reward for good grads and conduct. Page 6
The Harrison Central cheering squad brought in another trophy for the case as they took top honors during competition in Uniontown. Page 6
YES 65% (11 VOTES) NO 35% (6 VOTES)
By JD LONG
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building and the playground were discussed and stated that “anything that is attached can stay, anything that isn’t will be put up for auction and we’ll have to bid on it the same as anybody else.” Hawkins told them that it is “evidently” a state school- board rule. Along with that Hawkins said he wanted the time-capsule area undisturbed and the grounds
“reclaimed in proper manner.” Hawkins thought it would be best to have the fence taken down but others felt part of it kept up for safety purposes, such as the corner of 5th Street to down to the lower corner of the football field, Hawkins said. “It’s not a bad point when you stop and think about it,” Hawkins said and
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