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Issue 31, Volume 76

Tuesday, February 15, 2022 s 50¢

The Buckeye Trail

133 new
COVID
cases
reported
By Kayla (Hawthorne)
Dunham
khawthorne@aimmediamidwest.
com

ODNR | Courtesy photos

The 1,450-mile Buckeye Trail was officially designated a State Trail by ODNR at Burr Oak State Park in Glouster over the weekend.

Official designation
announced by ODNR
Staff Report

GLOUSTER, Ohio – The
1,450-mile Buckeye Trail was
ofﬁcially designated a State
Trail by the Ohio Department
of Natural Resources (ODNR)
at Burr Oak State Park in
Glouster over the weekend.
The Buckeye Trail is only the
third trail in Ohio to receive
this recognition, according to a
news release from ODNR.
“Following the Buckeye Trail

is one of the best adventures
you can ﬁnd in Ohio’s great outdoors,” Gov. Mike DeWine said.
“This designation shows how
important this trail is for Ohioans who want to see the sights
our state has to offer.”
The designation as a State
Trail recognizes the prominence of the Buckeye Trail in
the network of Ohio’s recreational trails and solidiﬁes the
partnership between ODNR
and the Buckeye Trail Associa-

(Editor’s note: Ohio
Valley Publishing’s
COVID-19 daily update
will now be published
on Tuesdays and Saturdays.)
OHIO VALLEY —
Since Friday’s update,
there were 133 new
COVID-19 cases reported
in the Ohio Valley Publishing area on Monday.
In Gallia County, the
Ohio Department of
Health (ODH) reported
32 new COVID-19 cases.
In Meigs County, ODH
reported 42 new COVID19 cases.
In Mason County, the
West Virginia Department of Health and
Human Resources
(DHHR), reported 59
new cases of COVID-19.
Here is a closer look at
the local COVID-19 data:
Gallia County
According to the 2
p.m. update from ODH
on Monday, there have
been 7,170 total cases (32
new) in Gallia County
since the beginning of the
pandemic, 378 hospitalizations and 105 deaths.
See CASES | 8

ODNR Director Mary Mertz and Executive Director Buckeye Trail Association
Andrew Bashaw are pictured at the trail designation.

tion (BTA). ODNR Director
Mary Mertz made the designation ofﬁcial during the annual
BRRRRR Oak Winter Hike.

After the signing ceremony,
Director Mertz and BTA
See TRAIL | 8

State Board
approves
funding for
SE Ohio
Staff Report

GOP pushes US schools to post all class materials online
By Julie Carr Smyth
and Casey Smith

congressional elections.
At least one proposal would
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plaints about certain lessons
— Republican state lawmakand in some cases sue school
ers across the U.S. are trying
districts.
to require schools to post all
Teachers say parents already
course materials online so parhave easy access to what their
ents can review them, part of
children learn. They worry that
a broader national push by the
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tially threaten their professional
independence — all while dragging them into a culture war.
The bill “insinuates there’s
some hiding happening,” said
Katie Peters, a high school English teacher in Toledo. “It makes
me a little defensive, because
I’m like — no, wait a minute,
we’re not hiding anything. The
transparency is always there,
and the parents who have cared
to look have always had access.”

The bills arose from last
year’s debate over the teaching
of race, diversity and sexuality.
The GOP insists the changes
are needed to give parents a
measure of control over what
their children see and hear in
class.
“I don’t think anybody disagrees that more information is
better for parents,” said
See CLASSES | 8

Latest inmate removed from
death row via mental illness law
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins

Last month, a judge in Stark County ruled that death row inmate David
Sneed, 60, had schizoaffective disorCOLUMBUS, Ohio — A convicted der at the time of the November 1984
shooting death of Herbert Rowan in a
killer who fatally shot a man nearly
botched robbery.
40 years ago has been removed from
Last year, judges also removed
Ohio’s death row under a new law that
prohibits the execution of people who inmates in Butler and Franklin counties from death row after their attorhad severe mental illness at the time
neys successfully argued they met the
of their crime.
mental illness criteria.
The law covers killers diagnosed
The legislation that took effect in
with schizophrenia, schizoaffective
April 2021 provides a one-year
disorder, bipolar disorder or delusional disorder when they committed
See INMATE | 8
their offenses.

Associated Press

COLUMBUS — Three
Southeast Ohio agencies
will receive a combined
$500,000 in state housing assistance funding,
State Representative
Jay Edwards announced
Monday.
According to a news
release sent on behalf of
Edwards and the Ohio
House of Representatives,
the Ohio Department
of Development’s Housing Assistance Grant
Program awards funds
through a competitive
application process to
non-proﬁt organizations
to support important services, including essential
home repairs that enable
people to remain in their
homes and minimize the
risk of homelessness.
The funding was
approved by the State
Controlling Board.
“These local organizations are doing good
work and making a difference in the lives of people
in Southeast Ohio,” said
Edwards (R-Nelsonville).
Area organizations
that will receive funding
See FUNDING | 8

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Ohio Valley Publishing

OBITUARIES
KENNETH DOBBIN
Kenneth Dobbin went
to be with the Lord on
February 10, 2022.
He was born March 14,
1944, in Portland, N.Y.,
son of the late Floyd and
Edna Viola Botsworth
Dobbin.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in
death by his wife of 53
years, Kareen.
He is survived by
his daughter Kimberly
(Chris) Donnal, beloved
granddaughter Kayla, and
great-granddaughter Ava
(whom he referred to as
Squirt or Squiggly), his
sister Sue Moore, brother
Robert Dobbin, and several beloved nieces and
nephews.
He was an active member of his church and
an author of “Do you

know God?” prior to his
retirement. He served his
country in the Air Force
and was a carpenter and
designed and built his
own home. When he had
time, he loved gardening
and was a very talented
artist.
Funeral services
will be held at 1 p.m.,
Wednesday, Feb. 16,
2022, at White-Schwarzel Funeral Home in
Coolville, with Jim
Gardner ofﬁciating.
Burial will follow in the
Sandhill Cemetery.
Visitation will be held
at the funeral home
Wednesday, from 11 a.m.
until time of service.
You are invited to sign
the online guestbook at
www.whiteschwarzelfh.
com.

JAMES EDWARD COUNTS
SYRACUSE — James
Edward Counts, 68, of
Syracuse, passed away
on Sunday, February 13,
2022.
He was born on March
19, 1953 to Kathleen
Counts of Syracuse, and
the late Victor Counts.
He is survived by his
wife of 46 years, Ida
Counts; children, James
(Crystal) Counts, Karrie
(Jamie Norville) Counts,
Brett (Karen) Counts; 9
grandchildren; 2 greatgrandchildren; brothers,
Robert (Anita) Counts,
Jeff Counts, Van (Paula)
Counts, Kelly (Stephanie)
Counts, Shannon (Scott)

DeWeese, Jason (Zorah)
Counts, several nieces
and nephews; and his
mother, Kathleen Counts.
He is preceded in death
by his father, Victor
Counts; brother, Victor
Counts; and grandson,
Triston Counts.
Funeral services will
be held on Friday, February 18, 2022, at 11 a.m.
at Anderson McDaniel
Funeral Home with Pastor Duke Holbrook ofﬁciating.
Burial will follow Letart
Fall Cemetery in Letart.
Calling hours will be held
on Thursday, February
17, 2022, from 6-8 p.m.

TAMARA ‘TAMMY’ CUNDIFF
RACINE — Tamara
“Tammy” Cundiff, 71,
of Racine, Ohio, passed
away, at 2:45 p.m. on
Tuesday, February 8,
2022 in the Overbrook
Center, Middleport, Ohio.
Born July 18, 1950,
in Toledo, Ohio she was
the daughter of the late
Albert and Muriel Mortel.
She was a homemaker.
She is survived by her
husband, Joseph Cundiff, whom she married
on December 24, 1972,

in Wallbridge, Ohio; a
sister, Norma Stevens,
of Dundee, Michigan; a
brother, Stan (Susan)
Mortel, of Michigan and
numerous nieces and
nephews.
A memorial graveside
service will be held in
the Chapel at the Letart
Falls Cemetery at 1 p.m.
on Wednesday, February
16, 2022. The CremeensKing Funeral Home,
Racine, is entrusted with
the arrangements.

DEATH NOTICES
MORRIS
POINT PLEASANT — Iris June (Setser) Morris,
87, of Point Pleasant, W.Va., died unexpectedly, Sunday, February 13, 2022, at her home.
Graveside service will be 1 p.m., Wednesday,
February 16, 2022, at Sunrise Memorial Gardens,
Letart, W.Va., with Pastor Mike Finnicum ofﬁciating.
Arrangements are under the direction of FoglesongCasto Funeral Home, Mason, W.Va.
MCCOURT
Crystal Sue McCourt died on February 10, 2022 at
St. Mary’s Medical Center following an extended illness.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, February 17, 2022 a the Anderson McDaniel
Funeral Home in Pomeroy. Burial will follow in the
Beech Grove Cemetery.

Hocking Hills State Park
closed until further notice
Staff Report

COLUMBUS —
On Sunday, it was
announced the Ohio
Department of Natural
Resources (ODNR) has
closed Hocking Hills
State Park until further
notice due to unsafe
trail conditions.

According to a news
release from ODNR,
visitors are asked to not
enter the park for any
reason.
ODNR will contact
guests who have camping or cabin reservations during this time
to make other arrangements.

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GALE EUGENE (GENE) WOLFE
CAPE CANAVERAL,
Fla. — Gale Eugene
(Gene) Wolfe, age 79,
of Cape Canaveral, Fla.,
went home to be with
his Lord, with his loving
wife by his side, on Feb.
8, 2022.
Born on Aug. 29, 1942,
in Racine, he was the husband of Velma Gail (Miss
Gail) Wolfe to whom he
was married 28 years,
together 33 years.
He was a military veteran of the U.S. Army
where he served in the
honor guard and was in
the Artillery Division. He
retired from the Boilermakers.
He loved singing and
playing his guitar at home
and in many churches for
the Lord.
A joy in his life was to
spend time with his family and playing his guitar
that he loved so much.
He loved making things
always work and he loved
to keep busy.

He is survived
by his wife, Velma
Gail Wolfe (Miss
Gail) of Cape
Canaveral; also
survived by his
children, Julee
Gale Athey of
Pomeroy, Robin L. Field
of Yorktown, Va., Tracy
S. Annarumo and husband Michael of New
Castle, Pa., Valerie Gail
Shade and husband John
of Cape Canaveral, Vincent J. Capece of New
Castle; brothers and
sisters Eileen Tritt of
Darlington, Pa., Ruth
Ann Graham and husband Bobby of Pomeroy,
Penny Hart and husband
Gary of Coolville, Benny
Wolfe and wife Robin of
Coolville, Carl Wolfe and
wife Carolyn of Middleport, Marlin Wolfe of
Rutland; 17 grandchildren
&amp; several great grandchildren; several nieces and
nephews; and best friends
(brothers) Chuck Salzer

pain but you’re forever in
my heart until we meet
again.”
In loving memory of
my wonderful husband.
If I had my life to choose
over again, I would ﬁnd
you sooner so that I could
love you longer. Miss
roy.
Gail.
Preceded in death by
Visitation will be held
his father &amp; mother, Kenon Wed., Feb. 16 from
neth Jacob Wolfe and
Anna Lucinda Ours; son, 4–7 p.m. at the R. CunPhillip Jerry Capece; and ningham Funeral Home
&amp; Crematory, Inc., 2429
brother, Howard Wolfe.
Wilmington Rd., New
He was the best part
Castle, PA, 16105.
of our lives and we are
A funeral service will
going to miss him deeply.
take place, at the funeral
You will be missed by
home, on Thurs. Feb.
many.
“Until We Meet Again. 17 at 11 a.m., beginning
with the New Castle
Those special memories
of you will always bring a Area Honor Guard persmile, if only I could have forming military rites,
followed by Pastor Dr.
you back for just a little
while. Then we could sit Phillip Cooper.
Burial will be at Graceand talk again just like we
land Cemetery.
used to do. You always
Online condolences
meant so very much and
may be offered to the
always will do too. The
fact that you’re no longer family at www.cunninghere will always cause me hamfh.com
and Roger Adkins
of Pomeroy.
He is also survived by stepchildren of a prior
marriage, Cynthia
Baker and Jeannie
Kendall of Pome-

HARRY LAWRENCE EBLIN
POMEROY — Harry
Lawrence Eblin, 91, of
Pomeroy, went to be with
Jesus on Saturday, February 12, 2022 at Ravenswood Care Center in
Ravenswood, W.Va.
Born April 14, 1930, on
Union Avenue in Pomeroy, he was the son of the
late Thomas and Emma
Vining Eblin. Lawrence
was everyone’s Papa.
He loved motorcycles,
guitars, horses and hunting. He shared his great
talent for singing and
playing his guitar with
many people all over the
community. He was a
member of the Middleport First Baptist Church.
He loved to exercise and
fellowship with his peers
at the Meigs County
Senior Center where he

was proud to have
rowed over 16 million meters on the
rowing machine.
His ﬁrst job was at
the Meigs Theater
which he talked
about frequently.
Lawrence worked for
Ohio Fuel and Gas Company for ten years and
he retired from Kaiser
Aluminum after 35 years
of service. He was a member of the Steel Workers
Local 5668 Ravenswood
and a proud 1949 graduate of Pomeroy High
School. He married
his ﬁrst wife Kathleen
Walburn and they had a
daughter Cathy Darlene.
After Kathleen’s death, he
married Barbara Linkenhoker and they had two
more daughters Penny

and Patty Eblin.
He is survived
by two daughters,
Cathy “Darlene”
Weaver and Penny
Eblin Cochran;
one granddaughter Tabitha (Jeff)
Horner; ﬁve grandsons
Bryan (Stacey) Weaver,
Kyle Weaver, Jerrod
Clark, Joshua (Kayla)
Clark and Jacob (Chastity) Smart; nine greatgrandchildren, Arik, Luke
and Elijah Horner, Emily
and Matthew Weaver,
Sarah, Robert and Rylan
Smart, and Evelyn Clark
and two great-greatgrandchildren.
Besides his parents, he
was preceded in death
by his ﬁrst wife Kathleen
Walburn; his second wife,
Barbara Linkenhoker

Eblin in 2014; a daughter
Patricia Eblin Phillips; a
son-in-law, Roger Weaver;
two sisters, Mamie Eblin
Snyder and Myrtle Eblin
and seven brothers,
Steve, Walter, Arthur,
Robert, James, Tommy
and Johnny Eblin.
Graveside services will
be at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at
Beech Grove Cemetery in
Pomeroy with Billy Zuspan ofﬁciating. Funeral
arrangements have been
entrusted with the EwingSchwarzel Funeral Home
in Pomeroy.
Thanks to the staff at
Ravenswood Care Center
for their great care.
Friends are encouraged to sign the online
guestbook at ewingfuneralhome.net.

FRANCIS J. ‘FRITZ’ HOHMAN
RIO GRANDE —
Francis J. “Fritz” Hohman, 91, Rio Grande, Ohio
passed away Monday,
February 14, 2022 at
O’Bleness Hospital, Athens, Ohio.
Born March 19, 1930
in Zanesville, Ohio, he
was the son of the late
Clements Joseph and
Mary Dorothy (Jakubisin) Hohman. He was
a United States Navy
Veteran serving during
the Korean Conﬂict and
Fritz attended Simpson
Chapel United Methodist
Church in Rio Grande.
He is survived by

his wife, Sarah
Blazer Hohman,
The Plains, Ohio
(formerly of Rio
Grande) and his
children: Gregory
Hohman, Chillicothe, Ohio; Jeffery (Mary) Hohman,
Columbus, Ohio; Susan
Renee (Rick) Ricker,
Buckeye, Arizona;
Marilee (John) McDonald, Glouster, Ohio and
David Wayne Hohman,
Darbyville, Ohio; thirteen grandchildren and
several great-grandchildren; brothers and
sisters: Joseph Hohman,

Orange, California; James (Violet)
Hohman, Arlington, Virginia;
Rosemary Law,
Kenton, Ohio;
Jane Ann (Jessie)
Shreve, Zanesville;
Mary Podojil, Hinsdale,
Illinois and Anna Hattery, Kenton, Ohio.
Fritz was preceded in
death by wives Wilma
Hohman, Georgia Hohman, his parents and four
brothers and two sisters.
Funeral services will
be conducted 11 a.m.
Saturday, February 19,
2022 in Simpson Cha-

pel United Methodist
Church, Rio Grande,
with Pastor Dan
Lamphier ofﬁciating.
Military Rites will be
performed by The Gallia
County Veterans Service
Funeral Detail. Friends
and family may call at
the church Saturday 10
a.m. to the service time.
Cremation services will
follow. The McCoyMoore Funeral Home,
Wetherholt Chapel, is
honored to serve the
Hohman Family.
Online condolences
may be sent to www.
mccoymoore.com.

GALLIA, MEIGS COMMUNITY BRIEFS
Editor’s Note: Gallia Meigs
Briefs will only list event information that is open to the public and
will be printed on a space-available basis.

Family dinner
GALLIPOLIS — VFW Post
#4464 hosts a family dinner, 6

Memorial Library will be closed in
p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 15 at post
home, all members urged to attend, observance of the President Day
holiday on Feb. 21. Normal hours
public is welcome.
of operation will resume on Tuesday, Feb. 22.
POMEROY — The Meigs
County Health Department will
MEIGS COUNTY — All Meigs
be clocked in observance of PresiLibrary locations will be closed in
dents Day on Feb. 21. Normal busiobservance of Presidents Day on
ness hours will resume at 8 a.m.
Feb. 21.
Tuesday, Feb. 22.
GALLIPOLIS — The Bossard

Holiday closures

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appreciate your input to the community calendar. To make sure
items can receive proper attention,
all information should be received
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Tuesday, Feb. 15
TUPPERS PLAINS — The

monthly meeting of the Tuppers
Plains Regional Sewer District
Board will be at 7 p.m. at the district ofﬁce board room.

Wednesday, Feb. 16
PERRY TOWNSHIP — The
Perry Township Board of Trustees
are rescheduling the February
meeting at 7 p.m. at the Townhouse.

Friday, Feb. 18
GALLIPOLIS — Ohio AFSCME
Retirees, Subchapter 102, Gallia &amp;
Jackson counties, will meet, weath-

er permitting, 2 p.m., at the Gallia
County Senior Resource Center,
1165 State Route 160, members
are asked to follow all CDC guidelines.

Saturday, Feb. 19
CHESTER — The Return Jonathan Meigs Chapter NSDAR will
meet at 1 p.m. in the dining hall
of the Chester Academy, weather
permitting. Program by Donna Jenkins. Exciting things are planned.
All members are encouraged to
attend. Social distancing/masks
rules apply.

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Tuesday, February 15, 2022 3

MU program to host veteran discussion group series
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. —
Marshall University’s Wars
Within, the Wars Without
program, which helps local
veterans reﬂect on their experiences, is set to host a series
of veterans’ discussion groups
beginning Saturday, Feb. 19.
Led by veterans, the discussion groups will examine texts
about ancient and modern war
as a way of reﬂecting on what
veterans have been through,
according to a news release
from MU.
The discussion events are

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WEATHER

In 1965, singer Nat
King Cole, 45, died in
Today is Tuesday, Feb. Santa Monica, California.
In 1989, the Soviet
15, the 46th day of 2022.
There are 319 days left in Union announced that the
last of its troops had left
the year.
Afghanistan, after more
Today’s Highlight in History: than nine years of military intervention.
On Feb. 15, 1879,
In 1992, a Milwaukee
President Rutherford B.
Hayes signed a bill allow- jury found that Jeffrey
Dahmer was sane when
ing female attorneys to
he killed and mutilated 15
argue cases before the
men and boys. (The deciSupreme Court.
sion meant that Dahmer,
who had already pleaded
On this date:
guilty to the murders,
In 1764, the site of
would receive a mandapresent-day St. Louis
was established by Pierre tory life sentence for
each count; Dahmer was
Laclede and Auguste
beaten to death in prison
Chouteau.
in 1994.)
In 1898, the U.S.
In 2003, millions of probattleship Maine mysteriously blew up in Havana testers around the world
demonstrated against the
Harbor, killing more
prospect of a U.S. attack
than 260 crew members
on Iraq.
and bringing the United
In 2020, the U.S. govStates closer to war with
ernment said Americans
Spain.
In 1933, President-elect who were on board a
cruise ship under quarFranklin D. Roosevelt
antine in Japan because
escaped an assassinaof the coronavirus would
tion attempt in Miami
be ﬂown back home on a
that mortally wounded
chartered ﬂight, but that
Chicago Mayor Anton
they would face another
J. Cermak; gunman
two-week quarantine;
Giuseppe Zangara was
executed more than four about 380 Americans
were aboard the Diamond
weeks later.
Princess.
In 1944, Allied bombers destroyed the monastery atop Monte Cassino Ten years ago:
in Italy.
Congressional negotiaIn 1961, 73 people,
tors sealed an agreement
including an 18-memon legislation to renew
ber U.S. ﬁgure skating
a payroll tax cut for 160
team en route to the
million workers and jobWorld Championships
less beneﬁts for millions
in Czechoslovakia, were
more. In deﬁant swipes
killed in the crash of a
at its foes, Iran said it
Sabena Airlines Boeing
was dramatically closer to
707 in Belgium.
mastering the production

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The solunar period indicates peak feeding times
for ﬁsh and game.

Today
Wed.
Thu.
Fri.
Sat.
Sun.
Mon.

Major
10:36a
11:23a
12:11p
12:37a
1:26a
2:17a
3:09a

Minor
4:24a
5:11a
5:59a
6:48a
7:37a
8:28a
9:21a

Major
11:01p
11:47p
---12:59p
1:49p
2:40p
3:33p

Minor
4:48p
5:35p
6:22p
7:10p
8:00p
8:51p
9:45p

WEATHER HISTORY
In 1980, a series of storms brought
heavy rain to California, Oregon and
Washington in mid-February. Mount
Wilson, Calif., had 9.00 inches of rain
in two days.

0-2 Low; 3-4 Moderate; 5-6 High; 7-8 Very High; 9-10 Extreme

A: No. Manmade snow is made of tiny
grains of ice rather than ﬂakes.

Today
7:20 a.m.
6:06 p.m.
5:06 p.m.
7:08 a.m.

THURSDAY

Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures
are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

AIR QUALITY

Adelphi
44/34

0 50 100 150 200

300

Chillicothe
45/34
Waverly
47/34
Lucasville
49/36
Portsmouth
49/36

Air Quality Index: 0-50, Good; 51-100,
Moderate; 101-150, Unhealthy for sensitive
groups; 151-200, Unhealthy; 201-300, Very
unhealthy; 301-500, Hazardous.

Source: Hamilton County Department of
Environmental Services

OHIO RIVER
Levels in feet as of 7 a.m. Mon.

Flood
24-hr.
Location
Stage Level Chg.
Willow Island
37 12.85 +1.35
Marietta
34 20.67 +0.16
Parkersburg
36 23.74 +0.21
Belleville
35 12.99 -0.03
Racine
41 13.39 +0.38
Point Pleasant
40 26.44 none
Gallipolis
50 12.24 +0.04
Huntington
50 28.71 +0.54
Ashland
52 35.57 +0.41
Lloyd Greenup 54 12.57 +0.26
Portsmouth
50 26.20 +0.63
Maysville
50 35.60 +0.15
Meldahl Dam
51 26.50 +0.78
Forecasts and graphics provided by
AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022

Today’s Birthdays:
Actor Claire Bloom
is 91. Author Susan

SATURDAY

41°
22°
Partly sunny and
cooler

Ashland
50/38
Grayson
51/38

MONDAY

56°
33°

Plenty of sun

59°
42°

Plenty of sun

Not as cool with
plenty of sunshine

NATIONAL CITIES
Marietta
44/32
Belpre
45/33

Athens
46/31

St. Marys
45/31

Parkersburg
44/32

Coolville
45/31

Elizabeth
46/32

Spencer
46/32

Buffalo
48/32

Ironton
50/38

Milton
49/36

St. Albans
50/33

Huntington
48/36

NATIONAL FORECAST
110s
Seattle
100s
47/41
90s
80s
70s
60s
50s
40s
30s
20s
San Francisco
10s
61/48
0s
Los
Angeles
-0s
62/46
-10s
T-storms
Rain
Showers
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Cold Front
Warm Front
Stationary Front

Brownmiller is 87.
Songwriter Brian
Holland is 81. Rock musician Mick Avory (The
Kinks) is 78. Jazz musician Henry Threadgill
is 78. Actor-model
Marisa Berenson is 75.
Actor Jane Seymour
is 71. Singer Melissa
Manchester is 71. Actor
Lynn Whitﬁeld is 69.
“Simpsons” creator Matt
Groening is 68. Model
Janice Dickinson is
67. Actor Christopher
McDonald is 67. Reggae
singer Ali Campbell
is 63. Musician Mikey
Craig (Culture Club)
is 62. College and Pro
Football Hall of Famer
Darrell Green is 62.
Actor-comedian Steven
Michael Quezada is 59.
Actor Michael Easton is
55. Latin singer Gloria
Trevi is 54. Rock musician Stevie Benton
(Drowning Pool) is 51.
Actor Alex Borstein is 51.
Actor Renee O’Connor is
51. Actor Sarah Wynter
is 49. Olympic gold
medal swimmer Amy Van
Dyken-Rouen is 49. Actordirector Miranda July is
48. Rock singer Brandon
Boyd (Incubus) is 46.
Rock musician Ronnie
Vannucci (The Killers)
is 46. Singer-songwritermusician Conor Oberst
(Bright Eyes) is 42. Actor
Ashley Lyn Cafagna is
39. Blues-rock musician
Gary Clark Jr. is 38.
Actor Natalie Morales is
37. Actor Amber Riley is
36. Rapper Megan Thee
Stallion is 27. Actor Zach
Gordon is 24.

SUNDAY

50°
27°

Wilkesville
47/30
POMEROY
Jackson
47/30
47/33
Ravenswood
Rio Grande
47/32
48/31
Centerville
POINT PLEASANT
Ripley
45/36
GALLIPOLIS
48/30
48/33
48/30

500

Primary pollutant: Particulates

One year ago:
A sprawling blast of
winter weather brought
unusual snow and cold
into Texas, knocking out
power for more than 4
million people and sending temperatures into
the single digits as far
south as San Antonio;
the icy blast across the
Deep South would later
be blamed for more than
100 deaths in Texas
and dozens more across
other Southern states.
Salsa music idol Johnny
Pacheco died at 85 in
New York, where he’d
been hospitalized with
pneumonia.

Murray City
44/32

McArthur
46/30

South Shore Greenup
51/38
49/36

57

61°
27°

Logan
44/31

Five years ago:
President Donald
Trump’s nominee for
labor secretary, Andrew
Puzder, abruptly withdrew his nomination
after Senate Republicans
balked at supporting
him, in part over taxes he
had belatedly paid on a
former housekeeper not
authorized to work in
the United States. In an
ultimatum to America’s
allies, Defense Secretary
Jim Mattis told fellow
NATO members to
increase military spending by year’s end or risk
seeing the U.S. curtail its
defense support.

FRIDAY

Increasing cloudiness
Becoming windier
and breezy
with rain, some heavy

2

AccuWeather.com Cold Index™

(in inches)

WEDNESDAY

Mostly sunny today. Clear and moonlit tonight.
High 48° / Low 30°

ALMANAC
High/low
Normal high/low
Record high
Record low

EXTENDED FORECAST

8 PM

66°
54°
18°

of nuclear fuel even as
the U.S. weighed tougher
pressure on the Tehran
government.

The Associated Press

Donald Trump’s estimate included only
damages felt in the
U.S. versus the global
damages captured in
higher estimates that
were previously used
under the Obama
administration.
The estimate would
be used to shape future
rules for oil and gas
drilling, automobiles,
and other industries.
Using a higher cost
estimate would help
justify reductions in
planet-warming emissions, by making the
beneﬁts more likely to
outweigh the expenses
of complying with new
rules.
Known as the social
cost of carbon, the
damage ﬁgure uses
economic models to
capture impacts from
rising sea levels, recurring droughts and
other consequences of
climate change. The
$51 estimate was ﬁrst
established in 2016 and
used to justify major
rules such as the Clean
Power Plan — former
President Barack
Obama’s signature
effort to address climate change by tightening emissions standards from coal-ﬁred
power plants — and
separate rules imposing
tougher vehicle emission standards.

TODAY

upon registration.
Anyone interested in more
information can e-mail either
of the faculty members leading
the project, Riner at conleyr@
marshall.edu or Franzen at
franzen@marshall.edu.
The project is offered with
support from the West Virginia
Humanities Council, and Marshall’s Center for Teaching and
Learning, Ofﬁce of Academic
Affairs, College of Liberal Arts
and departments of Humanities and Sociology and Anthropology.

TODAY IN HISTORY

US judge strikes
down Biden climate
damage cost estimate
WASHINGTON
(AP) — A federal judge
on Friday blocked the
Biden administration’s
attempt to put greater
emphasis on potential
damage from greenhouse gas emissions
when creating rules for
polluting industries.
U.S. District Judge
James Cain of the
Western District of
Louisiana sided with
Republican attorneys
general from energy
producing states who
said the administration’s action to raise
the cost estimate of carbon emissions threatened to drive up energy
costs while decreasing
state revenues from
energy production.
The judge issued an
injunction that bars the
Biden administration
from using the higher
cost estimate, which
puts a dollar value on
damages caused by
every additional ton
of greenhouse gases
emitted into the atmosphere.
President Joe Biden
on his ﬁrst day in
ofﬁce restored the climate cost estimate to
about $51 per ton of
carbon dioxide emissions after the Trump
administration had
reduced the ﬁgure to
about $7 or less per
ton. Former President

Franzen said. “Enabling recovery requires that we begin the
process of mending these fractures both of individual veterans and of the relationships
and communities that are severed in the wake of trauma.”
Franzen says the program
is always looking to bring in
more veterans in the group
to generate more experiences
that the other veterans can
learn from. Those interested
can register at www.marshall.
edu/warswithin. Reading
materials will be provided

news release. Through coming
together and narrating and
remembering their personal
experiences they can develop a
path to healing and recovery.
Dr. Christina Franzen, associate professor of classics, and
Dr. Robin Riner, professor of
anthropology, are spearheading the program.
“The imagery in the ancient
literature we read invokes the
fracturing of self that occurs
when soldiers face unthinkable acts and a fractured body
politic that results from war,”

scheduled for 10 a.m. to noon
Feb. 19 at the Vandalia Crowd
House above Backyard Pizza
and Rawbar on 3rd Ave and
9th Street in downtown Huntington, and March 5 and 19
at the Huntington Vet Center.
Nomada Bakery will be catering the event.
The hope is to bring a variety of generations of veterans
together for meaningful discussion with each one another
to create a lasting community
of and for veterans who support one another, stated the

Clendenin
48/35
Charleston
49/33

Shown are noon positions of weather systems and
precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Winnipeg
14/1

Billings
41/22

Minneapolis
31/24
Detroit
26/23
Chicago
39/36

Denver
59/26

Toronto
25/20

Montreal
17/2
New York
33/28

Washington
43/31

Kansas City
65/53

City
Albuquerque
Anchorage
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Boise
Boston
Charleston, WV
Charlotte
Cheyenne
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Columbus
Dallas
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Miami
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Orlando
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Raleigh
Richmond
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington, DC

Today

Wed.

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38/31/c
62/42/s
35/30/s
40/25/s
41/22/sn
46/26/pc
29/19/s
49/33/s
56/34/s
54/22/pc
39/36/pc
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31/29/pc
40/32/pc
72/58/s
59/26/pc
50/42/s
26/23/s
81/68/s
70/59/pc
46/40/s
65/53/pc
64/45/pc
70/51/s
62/46/c
59/45/s
74/69/pc
31/24/c
64/45/s
66/55/s
33/28/s
68/52/pc
72/59/c
37/27/s
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35/27/pc
25/10/pc
53/31/s
46/28/s
61/50/s
45/30/c
61/48/s
47/41/c
43/31/s

Hi/Lo/W
51/31/pc
34/29/sn
65/55/c
50/46/pc
54/45/pc
30/21/c
46/27/pc
42/39/pc
66/52/pc
64/51/pc
28/10/sn
50/26/r
62/54/pc
56/49/pc
60/52/pc
72/54/t
32/14/sn
42/14/i
50/41/c
82/69/s
76/65/c
59/45/pc
63/22/r
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71/61/c
68/46/s
68/56/pc
78/72/c
26/2/c
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46/44/pc
69/29/t
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National for the 48 contiguous states

Atlanta
62/42

High
Low

El Paso
76/47

81° in Palm Springs, CA
-42° in Brimson, MN

Global
High
Low

Houston
70/59

Chihuahua
77/46
Monterrey
75/51

Miami
74/69

109° in Roebourne, Australia
-66° in Delyankir, Russia

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sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow
ﬂurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

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Lady Tornadoes topple Clay, 50-41
By Colton Jeffries
cjeffries@aimmediamidwest.com

Colton Jeffries|OVP Sports

Southern senior Kelly Shaver (11) takes her shot during a basketball game
against the Clay Panthers Saturday afternoon in Racine, Ohio in the Division IV
Southeast 1 section semifinals.

RACINE, Ohio — This game
showed the importance of practicing your free throws.
A combined total of 42 free
throws were made during
the Southern girls basketball
team’s 50-41 victory over the
Clay Lady Panthers (2-19) Saturday afternoon in a Division
IV Southeast 1 sectional semiﬁnal contest.
The Lady Tornadoes (3-15)
started Saturday’s game on a
defensive note, netting a couple
of turnovers in the ﬁrst minute.
The home team took a 4-0
lead to start before the Lady
Panthers could score.

The Purple and Gold went
on a 6-0 scoring run midway
through the ﬁrst quarter, eventually taking a 15-4 lead at the
end of the ﬁrst eight minutes.
The Lady Tornadoes continued to get turnovers off of
the visitors, converting those
chances into points on the
scoreboard.
The Lady Panthers got all
but two of their points through
free throws in the second quarter, netting 10 points from the
charity stripe.
Those free throws helped the
Blue and Black outscore the
home team 12-9 in the second,
cutting the Purple and Gold’s
lead to 24-16 heading into halftime.

The Lady Tornadoes started
the second half on a 7-0 run.
Throughout the third quarter, Southern kept the score
hovering around the 10-point
mark, entering the fourth with
a 36-24 advantage.
However, Clay got the score
within eight points on a 6-2
scoring run to start the ﬁnal
quarter.
The Lady Panthers got the
score down to six points at a
couple points in the fourth, but
were unable to get any closer.
The ﬁnal two minutes of
Saturday’s ballgame turned
into a free throw dual, with
free throws making up the
See TOPPLE | 6

Lady Mustangs
gallop past
Eastern, 59-53
By Bryan Walters
bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com

LYNCHBURG, Ohio — Horses always seem
to be the best at making runs down the stretch.
Host Lynchburg-Clay combined for a 29-19
surge in the second and fourth quarters on Saturday en route to a 59-53 victory over the Eastern girls basketball team in a Division III Southeast 2 sectional semiﬁnal in Highland County.
The 16th seeded Lady Eagles (9-11) stormed
out to a 19-17 ﬁrst quarter advantage, but the
15th seeded Lady Mustangs countered with a
10-4 second period push that gave the hosts a
27-23 edge at the break.
The guests — who led by as many as four
points (21-17) in the ﬁrst half — trailed the rest
of the way, but a 15-13 third quarter run allowed
the Lady Eagles to close to within 40-38 headed
into the ﬁnale.
LCHS made an 11-4 charge out of the fourth
quarter gates for its largest lead at 51-42. Eastern closed the game with a 12-8 run, but never
came closer than six points down the stretch.
EHS outrebounded the hosts by a 36-34 overall margin, with both teams hauling in 11 offensive rebounds. The guests also committed 25 of
the 43 turnovers in the contest.
See GALLOP | 6

Point grapplers
vanquish Vikings
By Bryan Walters
bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com

RIPLEY, W.Va. — No shield could protect these
Vikings from this slaughter.
The Point Pleasant wrestling team captured
their ﬁfth straight victory in the annual Battle for
the Shield dual with host Ripley on Thursday during a 77-0 win in Jackson County.
The Big Blacks — the top-ranked program in
West Virginia’s Class AA ﬁeld — secured the program’s ﬁfth consecutive victory over the Vikings
while improving their all-time mark to 8-2 overall
in the head-to-head matchup.
It was only the third time that the road team
won, and the 77-point margin of victory was also
the largest by either program since the event
started in 2011.
PPHS won the initial dual by a 40-27 count in
2011, then earned wins of 43-27 in 2013, 40-34 in
See VANQUISH | 6

OVP SPORTS SCHEDULE
Tuesday, Feb. 15
Boys Basketball
Wahama at Point Pleasant, 7 p.m.
(20) Southeastern at (13) Meigs, 7 p.m.
(20) Miller at (13) South Gallia, 7 p.m.
(17) Southern at (16) Pike Eastern, 7 p.m.
(22) Eastern at (11) Paint Valley, 7 p.m.
(27) River Valley at (6) South Point, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 16
Girls Basketball
(11) Green at (6) South Gallia, 7 p.m.
(16) Southern at (1) Trimble, 7 p.m.

Photos by Bryan Walters|OVP Sports

Southern senior Lincoln Rose (42) is guarded by Eastern defender Isaiah Reed (24) during the second half of Friday night’s boys
basketball contest in Racine, Ohio.

Eagles sweep Southern, 64-60
By Bryan Walters
bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com

RACINE, Ohio — They
say that the numbers
never lie.
Well, some of these
numbers didn’t exactly
represent the whole truth
either.
Despite being outrebounded by more than
a 2-to-1 overall margin
Friday night, the Eastern
boys basketball team was
able to rally back from a
trio of 13-point second
quarter deﬁcits and claim
a thrilling 64-60 victory
over host Southern in
a Tri-Valley Conference Hocking Division
matchup of Meigs County
programs.
The Eagles (2-19, 2-10
TVC Hocking) were
down 18-9 after one
period of play and trailed
32-19 with 1:56 left in the
ﬁrst half before the guests
made what proved to be
a 45-28 charge the rest of
the way, including a 7-1
run to close the half for a
33-26 deﬁcit at the break.
The Tornadoes (7-15,
2-10) twice led by nine
points in the third stanza,
the last of which came on
an Aiden Hill offensive
putback with 6:40 remaining for a 37-28 advantage.
EHS, however, shot
59 percent from the ﬁeld
after halftime and went
5-of-10 in the third quarter as the visitors made a
15-8 surge over the ﬁnal
6:15 to close to within
a possession at 45-43
headed into the ﬁnale.
The Green and White

Eastern freshman Gavin Murphy (40) releases a shot attempt
during the first half of Friday night’s boys basketball contest
against Southern in Racine, Ohio.

made their ﬁrst ﬁve
shot attempts down the
stretch and secured a
permanent lead on a pair
of free throws by Gavin
Murphy for a 50-49 edge
with 5:09 remaining.
From there, Eastern
made a 10-2 run over the
next three minutes and
secured its largest lead
of the night at 60-51 following a Bryce Newland
basket.
SHS answered with a
9-2 run and closed the
deﬁcit down to 62-60 following a Cruz Brinager
putback with seven sec-

onds left in regulation.
Newland, however,
sealed the deal by netting
two free throws with 4.4
seconds remaining, allowing the Eagles to not only
ruin Southern’s Senior
Night festivities — but
also claim a season sweep
in the series. EHS defeated the Tornadoes by a
54-40 count in Tuppers
Plains back on Jan. 14.
There were only three
ties and ﬁve lead changes
throughout the course
of the game, with both
teams holding leads of at
least three possessions.

Eastern needed a full
three quarters to regain
the lead after establishing
an early 6-3 edge.
Southern — which
took its ﬁrst 13-point lead
(28-15) on a Lincoln Rose
putback with 3:15 remaining in the ﬁrst half —
made only one 3-pointer
early in the ﬁrst quarter
and came up empty on its
ﬁnal 16 trifecta tries.
EHS, conversely,
made four of its ﬁnal
ﬁve 3-point attempts
after missing its ﬁrst ﬁve
attempts in the opening
canto.
The Purple and Gold
outrebounded the guests
by a sizable 40-18 overall
margin, including an 18-3
edge on the offensive
glass. The hosts also
committed 10 of their 15
turnovers after the intermission, while EHS had
only ﬁve of their dozen
miscues after the break.
The Eagles made 19-of38 ﬁeld goal attempts for
50 percent, including a
4-of-10 effort from behind
the arc for 40 percent.
Eastern also went 22-of38 at the free throw line
for 58 percent.
EHS had four players
reach double ﬁgures, with
Jace Bullington leading
the charge with 16 points.
Trey Hill was next with
15 points, while Newland
and Connor Nolan respectively added 11 and 10
markers.
Murphy and Brayden
O’Brien completed the
winning tally with six
See SWEEP | 6

�SPORTS

6 Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Spartans
sweep
Meigs in
TVC Ohio
By Bryan Walters

bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com

ALBANY, Ohio —
One quarter made all
the difference.
Host Alexander used
a 14-5 second period
push to build a 7-point
halftime lead and ultimately never looked
back Saturday night
during a 57-42 victory
over the Meigs boys
basketball team in a TriValley Conference Ohio
Division contest at The
Alley.
The visiting Marauders (10-9, 6-6 TVC
Ohio) received eight
points from Brayden
Stanley while building
a 17-15 ﬁrst quarter
lead, but the Spartans
countered with that pivotal 9-point swing that
turned a 2-point deﬁcit
into a 29-22 intermission advantage.
MHS was never closer
as the Alexander made a
16-12 third quarter run
that increased the lead
out to 45-34, then closed
regulation with a 12-8
spurt that completed the
15-point outcome.
The Spartans also
claimed a season sweep
after earning a 67-56
win at Larry R. Morri-

son Gymnasium back on
Dec. 17, 2021.
The Marauders made
16 total ﬁeld goals —
including four 3-pointers
— and also went 6-of-9
at the free throw line for
67 percent.
Coulter Cleland paced
the Maroon and Gold
with 14 points, followed
by Stanley with eight
points and Braylon Harrison with ﬁve markers.
Ethan Stewart and
Morgan Roberts were
next with four points
apiece, while Chase Garcia added three points.
Grifﬁn Cleland and Conlee Burnem completed
the scoring with two
points each.
Kyler D’Augustino led
AHS with a game-high
28 points, followed by
Brayden McKee with
12 points and Zach
Barnhouse with eight
markers.
Meigs begins Division
III postseason play on
Tuesday when it welcomes Southeastern in a
13-20 matchup in a sectional semiﬁnal at 7 p.m.
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added 10 markers.
Brinager and Brayden
Otto completed the Tornado tally with four and
From page 5
two points, respectively.
Southern honored
points apiece. Murphy
seniors Isaac McCarty,
led the guests with
Aiden Hill, Tanner
seven rebounds, while
Lisle, Cade Anderson
Newland hauled in ﬁve
and Lincoln Rose before
boards as well.
the contest.
Southern netted
Both teams open Divi22-of-58 shot attempts
sion IV postseason play
for 38 percent, includat 7 p.m. Tuesday night
ing a dismal 1-of-18
effort from 3-point terri- as Southern travels to
tory for six percent. The Pike Eastern for a 16-17
hosts also sank 14-of-24 sectional semiﬁnal
matchup, while Eastern
charity tosses for 58
heads to Paint Valley for
percent.
Aiden Hill paced SHS an 11-22 sectional semiﬁnal contest.
with a double-double
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ﬁnal nine points.
In the end, the Lady
Tornadoes held off the
Lady Panthers to move
on in the postseason.
In shot totals, Southern only led in ﬁeld
goals with a tally of
14-6.
Clay led in both
3-pointers and free
throws with tallies of
2-1 and 23-19, respectively.
Leading the Lady
Tornadoes in points
was senior Kayla
Evans, who recorded
one 3-pointer, four
ﬁeld goals and ﬁve free
throws for a total of 16
points.
Behind her fellow
senior Kelly Shaver,
who got three ﬁeld
goals and ﬁve free
throws for 11 points.
Rounding out the
Southern scoring were
Kass Chaney with eight
points, Timberlyn Templeton with six points,

Michelle Adkins with
four points, Lily Allen
with three points and
Cassidy Roderus with
two points.
Leading the Lady
Panthers was Kyleigh
Oliver, who got two
3-pointers, three ﬁeld
goals and nine free
throws for a total of 25
points.
In rebounds, the
Purple and Gold had 11
offensive and 10 defensive for a total of 21
and were led by Evans
with seven.
The Blue and Black
had eight offensive
boards and 17 defensive for a total of 25
and were led by Morgan McCoy with 13.
The Lady Tornadoes will be back on
the court at 7 p.m.
Wednesday when
they travel to face the
Trimble Lady Cats in
the section ﬁnal.
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Blue Devils sweep Rock Hill
By Bryan Walters

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PEDRO, Ohio — The
Blue Devils just needed
some time to warm up.
The Gallia Academy
boys basketball team
mustered only three
points in the opening
frame, but eventually
found its rhythm and
rolled to a 57-39 victory over host Rock Hill
on Friday night in an
Ohio Valley Conference
matchup in Lawrence
County.
The Blue Devils (14-7,
7-7 OVC) found themselves in a 10-3 hole
through one quarter

of play, but the guests
countered with four
points apiece from
Kenyon Franklin, Zane
Loveday and Isaac Clary
as part of a 17-7 charge
that resulted in a 20-17
cushion at the break.
The Redmen were
never closer as Loveday
poured in nine points as
part of a 16-4 third quarter surge that extended
the lead out to 36-21
headed into the ﬁnale.
GAHS went 11-of-19
at the free throw line
down the stretch and
closed regulation with
a 21-18 run to complete
the 18-point triumph.
The Blue and White also

claimed a season sweep
after earning a 62-30
win in Centenary back
on Jan. 11.
The Blue Devils made
20 total ﬁeld goals —
including three trifectas
— and also went 14-of25 at the free throw line
for 56 percent.
Loveday paced the
guests with a game-high
17 points, followed by
Franklin with 16 points
and Clary with nine
markers. Wesley Saunders and Carson Call
respectively followed
with six and ﬁve points.
Brody Fellure was next
with three points, while
Carson Wamsley com-

pleted the scoring with a
single point.
Noah Doddridge led
RHHS with 15 points,
followed by Owen Hankins with seven points.
Victor Day and Lane
Smith also added four
markers apiece in the
setback.
Gallia Academy begins
Division II postseason
play on Friday night
when it hosts Miami
Trace in a 3-14 sectional
ﬁnal matchup at 7 p.m.
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Raiders fall at Wellston, 61-40
By Colton Jeffries

put up a further eight
points in the second quarter, but the Golden Rockets put up a further 16
WELLSTON, Ohio —
points to go into halftime
The River Valley boys
with a 31-16 lead.
basketball team ﬁnished
The third quarter was
the regular season with
more of a close contest,
a 61-40 road loss to the
Wellston Golden Rockets with Wellston outscoring
River Valley 12-11, but
(10-9, 6-6 TVC Ohio)
Saturday evening in a Tri- this meant that the deﬁcit
pretty much remained the
Valley Conference Ohio
same at 43-27.
Division matchup.
Ultimately, the road
The Raiders (3-19, 2-9)
scored eight points in the team wasn’t able to cover
the ground needed in the
ﬁrst quarter, while the
home team racked up 15. last eight minutes.
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scoring was junior Jance
Lambert, who recorded
two 3-pointers and four
ﬁeld goals for a total of
14 points.
Behind him was fellow
junior Kade Alderman,
who had one 3-pointer
and four ﬁeld goals for 11
points.
Rounding out the
River Valley scoring
were Mason Rhodes
with seven points, Elijah
Garnes with two points,
Caunnor Clay with two
points, Levi Green with
two points and Gary Tru-

ance with two points.
Leading the Golden
Rockets was Cyan Ervin,
who got 10 ﬁeld goals
and four free throws for a
total of 24 points.
The Raiders will be
back on the court at 7
p.m. Tuesday when they
hit the road to take on the
South Point Pointers in
the Division III Southeast
2 section semiﬁnal.
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Buckeyes knock off River Valley, 55-37
By Colton Jeffries

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BIDWELL, Ohio —
The River Valley boys
basketball team lost at
home 55-37 Friday evening to the NelsonvilleYork Buckeyes in a TriValley Conference Ohio
Division matchup.
The Raiders (3-18, 2-8
TVC Ohio) kept things
close in the ﬁrst quarter,
trailing the Buckeyes
(7-15, 2-10) by a score of
14-11.

However, the Orange
and Brown started to
pull away in the second,
outscoring the hosts 18-7
to go into halftime with a
32-18 lead.
The Silver and Black
put up a further nine
points in the third quarter, but the Buckeyes kept
them at a comfortable
distance to go into the
ﬁnal quarter with a 43-27
advantage.
River Valley couldn’t
cover the ground needed
in the fourth quarter, giv-

ing the visitors the win.
Leading the Raiders
in scoring was senior
Mason Rhodes, who
recorded three 3-pointers and two ﬁeld goals
for a total of 13 points.
Behind him was junior
Jance Lambert, who got
three 3-pointers and one
ﬁeld goal for 11 points.
Rounding out the River
Valley scoring were Kade
Alderman with nine
points, Ethan Schultz with
two points and Caunnor
Clay with two points.

Leading the Buckeyes
were Drew Carter and
Keggan Swope, who had
12 points each.
The Raiders will be
back on the court at 7
p.m. Tuesday when they
hit the road to take on
the South Point Pointers
in the Division III Southeast 2 section semiﬁnal.
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Wahama takes down Wirt Conty, 58-35
By Colton Jeffries

still went into the locker
rooms up 27-19.
The third was when
MASON, W.Va. — The things got bad for the
Wahama boys basketball visiting team.
The White Falcons
team picked up a home
picked up 19 points of
win Friday evening
against the Wirt County their own while their
defense only allowed
Tigers 58-35.
three points from the
The White Falcons
Tigers, going into the
(11-8) picked up 16
fourth quarter at a 46-22
points in the ﬁrst quarter to go into the second advantage.
In the ﬁnal quarter,
with a 16-10 lead.
both teams scored 12
The second quarpoints, but that just
ter was more evenly
matched, with the White meant Wahama cruised
to a home victory.
and Red only outscorLeading the White
ing the Tigers 11-9, but

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Gallop
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The Lady Eagles
made 20-of-55 ﬁeld
goal attempts for 36
percent, including a
3-of-14 effort from
behind the arc for 21
percent. The Green
and White also went
10-of-14 at the free
throw line for 71 percent.
Sydney Reynolds
led Eastern with a
double-double effort
of 26 points and 14
rebounds, followed by
Hope Reed with 11
points and Erica Durst
with eight markers.
Juli Durst was next

with six points, while
Ella Carleton completed the EHS tally
with two points. Erica
Durst handed a teambest four assists and
Juli Durst chipped
in a team-high ﬁve
steals.
Jade Massey paced
LCHS with 16 points,
followed by Macy Etienne with 15 points
and Addison West
with a dozen markers.
Bryana Price also contributed 10 points to
the winning cause.
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Falcons in points was
junior Josiah Lloyd, who
recorded ﬁve 3-pointers,
three ﬁeld goals and one
free throw for a total of
24 points.
Behind him was
sophomore Sawyer
VanMatre, who had ﬁve
ﬁeld goals and three free
throws for 13 points.
Rounding out the
Wahama scoring were
Harrison Panko-Shields
with eight points, Bryce
Zuspan with six points,
Ethan Gray with four
points and Eli Rickard
with three points.

Vanquish

Leading the Tigers
(7-12) was DeShawn
Middleton, who had
three 3-pointers and four
ﬁeld goals for a total of
17 points.
The White Falcons
will be back in action
at 7 p.m. Tuesday when
they travel to Point
Pleasant to take on the
Black Knights.
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sion ended up being a
double forfeit due to no
entrants in that weight
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class by either program.
Donovan Rainey (113),
2015, 40-33 in 2017,
Gunner Andrick (126),
54-19 in 2018, 55-9 in
Josh Woyan (152), Derek
2019, and 63-9 last winRaike (160) and Brayden
ter.
Connolly (195) all scored
Ripley, conversely,
pinfall victories in their
collected wins in 2012
(46-24) and in 2016 by a respective matches for
PPHS.
61-12 margin. The 2014
Mackandle Freeman
and 2020 duals were
postponed due to inclem- scored a technical fall
win at 138 pounds, while
ent weather.
Justin Bartee (145) and
Point won ﬁve of the
13 matches by forfeit due Ethan Marcum (170)
to the Vikings not having recorded wins by decia competitor in a speciﬁc sion.
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NOTICE TO PUBLIC OF A
FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE
ENVIRONMENT (FONSI)
COMBINED NOTICE
February 15, 2022
Meigs County Commissioners
C/O Buckeye Hills Regional Council
1400 Pike St, Marietta, OH 45750
740-374-9436
To All Interested Persons, Agencies, and Groups:
The Meigs County Commissioners propose to request that the
State of Ohio release Federal funds under Section 104 (g) of Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974,
as amended; Section 288 of Title II of the Cranston Gonzales
National Affordable Housing Act (NAHA), as amended; and/or
Title IV of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act,
as amended; to be used for the following project(s):
Racine Sidewalk Improvements
Source of Funds: CDBG Critical Infrastructure
Sidewalk installation on Yellowbush Rd, Buckeye Ln,
and 6th St in the Village of Racine, totalling approximately
2,250 linear feet.
Single Year Project
Village of Racine, Meigs County
Estimated Project Cost: $431,129
The Meigs County Commissioners have determined that the
project(s) will have no significant impact on the environment.
Therefore, an Environmental Impact Statement under the
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended is not
required.
The Meigs County Commissioners have prepared an Environmental Review Record (ERR) for each of the projects listed
above. The ERR(s) documents the environmental review of the
project(s). The ERR(s) is (are) on file and available for the
public's examination and copying, upon request, between the
hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday
(except holidays) at the above address.
No further environmental review of the project(s) will be conducted prior to the request for release of Federal funds.
The Meigs County Commissioners plan to undertake the
project(s) described above with the Federal funds cited above.
Any interested person, agency, or group wishing to comment
on the project or disagreeing with this Finding of No Significant
Impact decision may submit written comments for consideration
to the Meigs County Commissioners at the above listed address by 5:00 p. m. on March 2, 2022, which is at least 15 days
after the publication of this combined notice. A notice regarding
the responsible entity's intent to request the release of funds is
listed immediately below.
NOTICE OF INTENT TO REQUEST RELEASE OF FUNDS
(NOI/RROF)
To All Interested Persons, Agencies, and Groups:
On or about, but not before, March 3, the Meigs County Commissioners will submit a request to the State of Ohio for the
release of Federal funds under Section 104 (g) of Title I of the
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as
amended; Section 288 of Title II of the Cranston Gonzales
National Affordable Housing Act (NAHA), as amended; and/or
Title IV of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act,
as amended; to be used for the project(s) listed above.
The Meigs County Commissioners certifies to the State of Ohio
that Jimmy Will, in his/her capacity as President of County
Commissioners, consents to accept the jurisdiction of Federal
courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to the environmental review process and that these responsibilities have been satisfied.
The legal effect of the certification is that upon its approval, the
Meigs County Commissioners may use the Federal funds, and
the State of Ohio will have satisfied its responsibilities under
the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended.
The State of Ohio will accept an objection to its approval of the
release of funds and acceptance of the certification only if it is
on one of the following grounds: (a) the certification was not, in
fact, executed by the responsible entity's Certifying Officer; (b)
the responsible entity has failed to make one of the two findings
pursuant to Section 58.40 or to make the written determination
required by section 58.35, 58.47, or 58.53 for the project, as
applicable; c) the responsible entity has omitted one or more of
the steps set forth at subpart E of 24 CFR Part 58 for the preparation, publication, and completion of an Environmental
Assessment; d) the responsible entity has omitted one or more
of the steps set forth at subparts F and G of 24 CFR Part 58 for
the conduct, preparation, publication, and completion of an
Environmental Impact Statement; e) the recipient has committed funds or incurred costs not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58
before release of funds and approval of the environmental certification by the State; or f) another federal agency, acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504, has submitted a written finding that
the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental quality.
Written objections must meet the conditions and procedures
set forth in subpart H of 24 CFR Part 58, and be addressed to:
State of Ohio Department of Development; Office of Housing
and Community Partnerships; Environmental Officer; P. O. Box
1001; Columbus, Ohio 43216-1001.
Objections to the Release of Funds on bases other than those
stated above will not be considered by the State of Ohio.
No objections received after March 18, 2022 (which is 15 days
after it is anticipated that the State will receive a request for
release of funds) will be considered by the State of Ohio.
The address of the certifying officer is:
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Classes
From page 1

Brett Hillyer, a Republican state representative
in Ohio who is co-sponsoring such a bill. He
said the proposal could
quell disagreements
between parents, teachers and school boards
before they get too far.
Educators don’t take
issue with keeping parents informed, but they
see a risk that the socalled curriculum-transparency requirements
will invite censorship,
professional burnout
and resignations.
Other state considering some version of the
idea include Arizona,
Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan,
North Carolina and
West Virginia.
The Ohio bill would
affect public, private
and charter schools,
as well as colleges and
universities that participate in the state’s dualenrollment program for
seventh through 12th
graders.
A panel of three Ohio
teachers recently sat
down with The Associated Press to discuss
the proposal. They
said they already post
syllabuses, textbook
information, course
materials and sometimes notes for parents
and students — at least
at the middle- and highschool levels.
None of them could
recall ever denying a
parent’s request for
additional information.
Juliet Tissot, a
mother of two from
the Cincinnati suburb of Madeira, said
elementary classrooms
are a different story.
The nonproﬁt worker
and volunteer said
schools stopped sending home textbooks
years ago and often fail
to provide curriculum
details when asked.
That leaves parents
groping for information
when helping kids with
homework.
“Children are with
their parents a lot more
than they’re with their
teachers, and it’s bad
that parents don’t know
what’s going on — and
they don’t anymore,”
she said. “I’m surprised
this didn’t happen
sooner, but it seems
like it’s ﬁnally coming
to a head.”
Tissot also supports
policing teachers’
behavior more closely,
including requiring
them to wear body
cameras.
The Ohio teachers
said parents of older
children occasionally pull a student from
class — say, when

Funding
From page 1

through this initiative
are:
· Buckeye Hills
Regional Council
will receive $300,000
to provide 36 home
repairs for homeowners
aged 60 and over and
low-income disabled
residents in Athens,
Hocking, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Noble,

Inmate
From page 1

window for current
death row inmates to
ﬁle to have their death
sentences revoked
because of the serious
mental illness clause.
Inmates who suc-

evolution or the Big
Bang is being taught in
science — or request
an alternate assignment when offended by
a selected reading, and
those interactions generally go smoothly.
“That’s the thing
that this law misses.
It’s painted as broadswath, as if there are
these improprieties
going on,” said Dan
Greenberg, who teaches high school English
in the Toledo suburb
of Sylvania. “You’re
talking to people who
are right there in
the trenches, and we
always have a really
good partnership with
parents.”
The GOP acted after
conservatives complained about public
schools’ responses to
the COVID-19 pandemic and the racial reckoning that followed the
death of George Floyd,
the Black man killed
by a white Minneapolis
police ofﬁcer in 2020.
Some states and local
school boards have
banned books about
race relations, slavery
and gender.
The Ohio teachers
say the Republican
efforts could ultimately
erode their ability to
make professional judgments and stiﬂe the
spontaneity that brings
their classrooms to life,
while adding to workloads that have already
taken a serious toll on
school stafﬁng.
“I’m worried it’s sort
of a Trojan horse to
get into the classroom
to pick through what
they see and point us
in different directions
or stop us from doing
things,” said Robert
Estice, a middle school
science and critical
thinking teacher in the
Columbus suburb of
Worthington.
Emerson Sykes, a
staff attorney at the
ACLU Speech, Privacy
and Technology Project, called the bills
“thinly veiled attempts
at chilling teachers
and students from
learning and talking
about race and gender
in schools.”
Hillyer said he does
not intend for parents
to be able to censor
school materials.
The proposed parents bill of rights calls
for access to classroom
materials and academic, medical and safety
records, as well as
certain entry privileges
to school buildings
and more. An effort
last year to politicize
normally sleepy school
board races was considered by some as a
dress rehearsal to drive
2022 turnout among
Republicans.

Perry and Washington
counties.
· Gallia-Meigs Community Action Agency
will receive $120,000
to provide 24 home
repairs to low-income
homeowners in Gallia
and Meigs counties.
· WashingtonMorgan Community
Action will receive
$80,000 to provide 12
home repairs to lowincome homeowners in
Morgan and Washington counties.

cessfully appeal their
sentences are removed
from death row but still
face life in prison without parole.
The state’s last
execution was July 18,
2018, when Ohio put
to death Robert Van
Hook for killing David
Self in Cincinnati in
1985.

Daily Sentinel

Trail
From page 1

President Steve Walker
signed a joint statement
acknowledging the designation and celebrating
the renewed partnership.
“Trails are something
we are very passionate
about at ODNR, and
the Buckeye Trail is one
of my favorite paths in
Ohio,” Director Mertz
said. “From the shores
of Lake Erie to the
banks of the Ohio River
and through the hills of
Appalachia, this looping
trail highlights something in every corner
of the state that makes
Ohio beautiful.”
The Buckeye Trail
passes through nearly
40 ODNR properties
including state forests,
state wildlife areas, state
nature preserves, and
nearly 20 state parks.
This includes a 26-mile
stretch of Buckeye Trail
through the new Appalachian Hills Wildlife Area
in Morgan County.
The inspiration for the
Buckeye Trail began in
the 1950s. That vision
has grown into 1,450
miles of trail connecting big cities and large
tracts of forested lands
throughout Ohio. The
Buckeye Trail Association is the leader in
building, maintaining,
protecting, and promoting the use of Ohio’s longest scenic hiking trail
for our citizens, communities, and partners. The
trail has been expanded
and maintained by the
association along with
dedicated volunteers and
landowners.
“This designation is
a great compliment to
the hard work of generations of Buckeye Trail

Cases
From page 1

Of the 7,170 cases,
6,336 (124 new) are presumed recovered.
Case data is as follows:
0-19 — 1,423 cases (5
new), 11 hospitalizations
20-29 —1,162 cases (5
new), 21 hospitalizations,
1 death
30-39 — 1,049 cases (6
new), 19 hospitalizations,
1 death
40-49 — 1,054 cases (3
new), 34 hospitalizations,
8 deaths
50-59 — 948 cases (8
new), 62 hospitalizations,
13 deaths
60-69 — 766 cases (4
new), 68 hospitalizations,
17 deaths
70-79 — 467 cases (1
new), 97 hospitalizations,
25 deaths
80-plus — 301 cases,
66 hospitalizations, 38
deaths
Vaccination rates in
Gallia County are as follows, according to ODH:
Vaccines started:
13,846 (46.31 percent of
the population);
Vaccines completed:
12,661 (42.35 percent of
the population).
Meigs County
According to the 2
p.m. update from ODH
on Monday, there have
been 4,419 total cases (42
new) in Meigs County
since the beginning of
the pandemic, 219 hospitalizations (2 new) and
77 deaths. Of the 4,419
cases, 3,989 (78 new) are
presumed recovered.
Case data is as follows:
0-19 — 862 cases (4
new), 8 hospitalizations
(1 new)
20-29 — 635 cases (4
new), 5 hospitalizations,
1 death
30-39 — 583 cases (3
new), 15 hospitalizations,
1 death
40-49 — 649 cases (3
new), 18 hospitalizations,

ODNR | Courtesy

The designation as a State Trail recognizes the prominence of the Buckeye Trail in the network
of Ohio’s recreational trails and solidifies the partnership between ODNR and the Buckeye Trail
Association (BTA)

Association volunteers
who have built, maintained, protected, and
promoted the trail they
dreamed to hike, and
share with us all,” Executive Director, Buckeye
Trail Association Andrew
Bashaw said. “This designation is not just an
acknowledgement of past
achievements with a vast
network of partners like
ODNR, it is also a commitment to the future
work creating an even

FOLLOW THE PATH
The Buckeye Trail passes through nearly 40 ODNR
properties including state forests, state wildlife areas,
state nature preserves, and nearly 20 state parks. This
includes a 26-mile stretch of Buckeye Trail through the
new Appalachian Hills Wildlife Area in Morgan County.

better experience that is
there for all of us when
we need it most.”
The other two trails to
receive this designation
are a 40-mile segment
of the Miami and Erie

began Dec. 14, 2020:
Total cases since start
of vaccinations: 5,406 (59
new);
Total cases among
individuals who were
not reported as fully
vaccinated — 4,592 (35
fewer);
Total breakthrough
cases among fully vaccinated — 814 (24 new);
Total deaths among not
fully vaccinated individuals — 69;
Total breakthrough
deaths among fully vaccinated individuals — 6.
A total of 11,968 people
in Mason County have
received at least one dose
of the COVID-19 vaccine,
which is 45.1 percent of
the population, according
Mason County
to DHHR, with 10,067
According to the 10
fully vaccinated or 38.0
a.m. update on Monday
percent of the population.
from DHHR, there have
Mason County is curbeen 6,295 cases (59
rently yellow on the West
new) of COVID-19, in
Virginia County Alert
Mason County (5,804
System.
conﬁrmed cases, 491
There have been 28
probable cases) since
conﬁrmed cases of the
the beginning of the
pandemic and 86 deaths. Delta variant in Mason
County. There are six
DHHR reports there are
currently 127 active cases conﬁrmed case of the
and 6,082 recovered cases Omicron variant reported
in Mason County.
in Mason County.
(Editor’s note: Case
data includes both conOhio
ﬁrmed and probable
According to the 2 p.m.
cases.)
update on Monday from
Case data is as follows: ODH, there have been
0-4 — 130 cases (3
1,312 cases in the past
new)
24 hours (21-day average
5-11 — 311 cases (3
of 5,605), 99 new hospinew)
talizations (21-day aver12-15 — 325 cases
age of 266), 22 new ICU
16-20 — 447 cases (4
admissions (21-day avernew)
age of 24) and zero new
21-25 — 516 cases (2
deaths in the previous 24
new)
hours (21-day average of
26-30 — 583 cases (10 144) with 35,005 total
new)
reported deaths. (Editor’s
31-40 — 1,055 cases
Note: Deaths are reported
(12 new), 2 deaths
two days per week.)
41-50 — 964 cases (6
Vaccination rates in
new), 3 deaths
Ohio are as follows,
51-60 — 813 cases (11 according to ODH:
new), 12 deaths
Vaccines started:
61-70 — 612 cases (5
7,198,199 (61.58 percent
new), 16 deaths
of the population);
71+ — 539 cases (3
Vaccines completed:
new), 53 deaths
6,643,964 (56.84 percent
Additional county case of the population).
data since vaccinations
As of Feb. 9, ODH

2 deaths
50-59 — 624 cases (8
new), 35 hospitalizations
(1 new), 10 deaths
60-69 — 529 cases (8
new), 56 hospitalizations,
12 deaths
70-79 — 338 cases (11
new), 50 hospitalizations,
28 deaths
80-plus — 199 cases (1
new), 31 hospitalizations,
22 deaths
Vaccination rates in
Meigs County are as follows, according to ODH:
Vaccines started:
10,481 (45.75 percent of
the population);
Vaccines completed:
9,529 (41.60 percent of
the population).

Canal Towpath Trail in
Northwest Ohio and the
Blackhand Gorge Trail in
Licking County.
Information provided
by ODNR.

reports the following
breakthrough information:
COVID-19 Deaths
among individuals not
reported as fully vaccinated — 19,969;
COVID-19 Deaths
among fully vaccinated
individuals — 1,002;
COVID-19 Hospitalizations since Jan. 1, 2021
among individuals not
reported as fully vaccinated — 61,793;
COVID-19 Hospitalizations since Jan. 1, 2021
among individuals reported as fully vaccinated —
3,977.
West Virginia
According to the 10
a.m. update on Monday
from DHHR, there have
been 476,957 total cases
since the beginning of
the pandemic, with 897
reported since DHHR’s
update last update.
DHHR reports 76,107
“breakthrough” cases
as of Monday with 580
total breakthrough deaths
statewide (counts include
cases after the start of
COVID-19 vaccination/
Dec. 14, 2020). There
have been a total of 6,023
deaths due to COVID19 since the start of the
pandemic, with 31 since
the last update. There
are 7,262 currently active
cases in the state, with
a daily positivity rate of
15.25 and a cumulative
positivity rate of 8.35
percent.
Statewide, 1,110,113
West Virginia residents
have received at least one
dose of the COVID-19
(61.9 percent of the population). A total of 53.4
percent of the population,
957,366 individuals have
been fully vaccinated.
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