http://host69-005.meigs.lib.oh.us/files/original/cb7d28fd8f97b9eab1b5ca6abbd69246.pdf e068db6606ff34134fbaebd2fdf0503c PDF Text Text STANDING WITH UKRAINE We at AIM Media stand with SUPPORT the Ukrainian people to support their freedom and UKRAINE sovereignty. www.aimmediacares.com Please visit AIMMediaCares.com/Ukraine or scan the QR code for links to organizations working to help the Ukrainian people in their time of need. 8 AM 2 PM 8 PM 66° 76° 79° A stray thunderstorm this afternoon. Partly cloudy tonight. High 86° / Low 64° Today’s weather forecast District track meets begin WEATHER s 3 SPORTS s 6 C_ZZb[fehj��Fec[heo"�E^_e Breaking news at mydailysentinel.com Issue 98, Volume 76 Meigs Board of Education OKs personnel a tentative list of 2022 Meigs High School seniors for graduation, POMEROY — The pending completion of Meigs Local Board of all local and state acaEducation meet last week to approve person- demic requirements. Jennifer Richmond nel. was hired as secretary Present during the to the superintendent meeting were board on a one-year contract, members Ryan Mahr, retroactive to February Roger Abbott, Tony Hawk, Barbara Musser, 23. The following were and Heather Hawley. hired as summer-school Minutes from the teachers at Meigs High previous meeting were approved as submitted. School the for the period of June 6-July 1: Donations were accepted in Memory of Courtney Irvin, Richelle Phillip Harrison for the Jones, Justin May, Donna Wolf, Dylan Scoreboard Fund from Haynes, Jackie Ortman, Front Paige Outﬁtters, Billy and Janet Willima- Kathy Sargent, Jennifer son and Brady Colburn. Henson, Chris Saber, Mark Grifﬁn, Dave Donations were accepted in Memory of Barr, and Teresa WilJudy McCarthy Memo- liams. The following were rial Scholarship Fund hired as summer-school from Little, Sheets, teachers at Meigs & Barr LLP, Buckeye Iron Works, Rio Bravo, Middle School for the period of June 6-July Inc., P.S. Just Hair, 1: Noel Jeffers, Derek LLC, Fox’s Pizza Den Miller, Stacie Scarberry, of Meigs County, Inc., Lea Ann King, LindKing Builders Supply, sey Doudna, Amanda Inc., Scott & Pamela Newsome, Pam White, Trussell, and Peoples Josh Eddy, Calee PickBank. ens, Elizabeth Massie, A donation for the Trystan Peyton, Kelly FFA Chapter was Drummer, and Tonya accepted from Sunrise McKee. Cooperative in the The following were amount of $100. hired as summer-school A purchased serteachers at Meigs Intervice agreement was mediate School for the approved with Jarod period of June 6-July 1: Koenig and Raymond Melissa Morris, Abby Lawson for summer tech support help under Rodriquez, Linzie Causey, Heidi DeLong, the direction of Matt Nicki Eddy, Lindsay Simpson. Patterson, Tatyana In ﬁnance matters, Price, and Evan White. the ﬁnancial reports The following were for the month of April hired as summer-school 2022 were approved teachers at Meigs Prias submitted; bills for mary School for the the month of April period of June 6-July 1: were approved and the exempt and administra- Missy Howard, Penny tive salary schedules for Ramsburg, Sarah Lee, the 2022-23 school year Kristin Bowles, Danielle Eberts, Maggie Mace, were approved. Rachel Jones, Abby The board entered Young, Samantha Barr, into an HVAC mainteJesse McKendree, Kelly nance agreement with Columbus Building Ser- Roush, Karen Gibbs, and Migail Wheaton. vices, Inc. (CBSI) for The following were FY 2023. Kerry Allen was hired hired as substitute summer-school teachers at as a substitute custoMeigs Primary School dian for the remainder of the 2021-2022 school for the period of June 6-July 1: Alyson Lewis, year, pending complePenny Newland, and tion of all administraShirley VanMeter. tive requirements. The following were The board approved a FMLA request. See BOARD | 8 The board approved Thursday, May 19, 2022 s 50¢ Southern FFA helps with Ag Day Staff Report Southern FFA | Courtesy photos Pictured are FFA members from Southern that helped out with Ag Day. Fourth graders from Southern, Meigs and Eastern attend event POMEROY — Last week, Meigs County Ag Day was held at the Meigs County Fairgrounds in Pomeroy. Ag Day was put together by the Athens-Meigs Farm Bureau and people in Meigs County who are in the agricultural ﬁeld. Ag Day was created to teach youth about FFA through fun, and interactive activities. Fourth graders from Southern, Meigs and Eastern were in attendance at this event. There were 13 different stations that the groups walked around to throughout the Pictured above is one of Southern’s members helping the youth day. Southern FFA helped make ice cream. to make this day successful by putting their plan of action into place to create a successful day of teaching youth about agriculture. Several members of Southern FFA were assigned to be tour guides for the youth groups. Stations were set up throughout the fairgrounds, each with their own lesson to be learned. Examples included soil and water conservation, honey bees, the beef industry, Meigs FFA with a petting zoo, Meigs County Extension and equine, just to name a few. Other members from See AG DAY | 8 Free suicide awareness, prevention training offered The AAA7 is hosting a virtual QPR training coming up on June 7. GALLIPOLIS — The Through the Suicide Area Agency on Aging Prevention Foundation, District 7 (AAA7) AAA7 staff have been received funding from the Foundation for Appa- trained to provide the community educational lachian Ohio’s (FAO) program QPR: Question, Cause Connector giving Persuade, and Refer. program to help support Much like the well-known an important commuCPR, the fundamentals nity training for suicide awareness and prevention of QPR are easily learned and applied through a called QPR: Question, short training which Persuade, and Refer. Staff Report can be done virtually or online. QPR, like CPR, functions as a “chain of survival,” allowing lay persons and professionals to respond to a life-threatening event — suicidal crisis. The training provides a booklet for each participant which becomes the resource to assist suicidal persons and is an instrumental part of the training. Teachers, coaches, local clergy, police ofﬁcers, and any community individual can learn the QPR method to help recognize signs and clues of suicidal behavior, how to approach and communicate with a suicidal person, and where to refer them for assistance. In Ohio, ﬁve people die each day by suicide. A report released by the See TRAINING | 8 Lawmakers, AG want public safety considered in bail AIM Media Midwest Operating, LLC (USPS 145-966) Telephone: 740-992-2155 Publishes every Tuesday through Saturday. Subscription rate is $208 per year. Prices are subject to change at any time. 825 Third Ave., Gallipolis, OH, 45631 Periodical postage paid at Pomeroy, OH POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Daily Sentinel, 825 Third Ave., Gallipolis, OH, 45631. All content © 2022 The Daily Sentinel, an edition of the Gallipolis Daily Tribune. All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law. By Andrew Welsh-Huggins Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — Judges in Ohio would be required to consider criminal suspects’ threat to public safety when setting bail amounts under both legislation and a proposal for a state constitutional amendment that House Republicans were expected to approve Wednesday. The GOP proposals followed a ruling by a divided Ohio Supreme Court earlier this year that said a $1.5 million bond for a Cincinnati man accused of fatally shooting a man during a robbery was too high. The Supreme Court majority said safety concerns expressed by the victim’s family members, and evidence that the suspect presented a false ID when confronted after ﬂeeing to Las Vegas, weren’t factors relevant to the amount of bail. The court did say that public safety concerns could be met by other requirements, such as electronic monitoring, which was done in the case of the Cincinnati murder suspect, according to court records. He was also banned from contacting the victim’s family. The proposals come at a time of a debate in Ohio and nationally over changes to bail systems. Opponents of cash bail have long argued its use should be reduced or eliminated to avoid the hardship it presents to defendants who can’t afford to pay even low amounts, and end up losing jobs and contact with family while they remain in jail before their case is resolved. In Ohio, separate legislation still in the committee process would eliminate the presumption that cash bail is the ﬁrst recourse of a judge when setting terms of release. Supporters of this See BAIL | 8 �OBITUARIES/NEWS 2 Thursday, May 19, 2022 OBITUARIES TODAY IN HISTORY Associated Press Today is Thursday, May 19, the 139th day of 2022. There are 226 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history On May 19, 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England’s King Henry VIII, was beheaded after being convicted of adultery. On this date In 1780, a mysterious darkness enveloped much of New England and part of Canada in the early afternoon. In 1913, California Gov. Hiram Johnson signed the WebbHartley Law prohibiting “aliens ineligible to citizenship” from owning farm land, a measure targeting Asian immigrants, particularly Japanese. In 1920, ten people were killed in a gun battle between coal miners, who were led by a local police chief, and a group of private security guards hired to evict them for joining a union in Matewan, a small “company town” in West Virginia. In 1921, Congress passed, and President Warren G. Harding signed, the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants. In 1943, in his second wartime address to the U.S. Congress, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledged his country’s full support in the ﬁght against Japan; that evening, Churchill met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House, where the two leaders agreed on May 1, 1944 as the date for the D-Day invasion of France (the operation ended up being launched more than a month later). In 1967, the Soviet Union ratiﬁed a treaty with the United States and Britain, banning nuclear and other weapons from outer space as well as celestial bodies such as the moon. (The treaty entered into force in October 1967.) In 1993, the Clinton White House set off a political storm by abruptly ﬁring the entire staff of its travel ofﬁce; ﬁve of the seven staffers were later reinstated and assigned to other duties. In 1994, former ﬁrst lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in New York at age 64. In 2003, WorldCom Inc. agreed to pay investors $500 million to settle civil fraud charges. In 2018, Britain’s Prince Harry wed American actress Meghan Markle in a service that reﬂected Harry’s royal heritage and his bride’s biracial roots, as well as their shared commitment to put a more diverse, modern face on the monarchy. In 2020, a Trump administration policy of quickly expelling most migrants stopped along the border because of the COVID-19 pandemic was indeﬁnitely extended. Ten years ago: Chen Guangcheng a blind Chinese legal activist, was hurriedly taken from a hospital and put on a plane for the United States, closing a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations. Five years ago: Sweden dropped a rape investigation of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who remained holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London to avoid arrest and possible extradition to the United States to face charges stemming from the publication of thousands of pages of classiﬁed documents. Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., whose penchant for sexting strangers ended his political career, pleaded guilty in Manhattan to a sex charge, tearfully apologizing for communications with a 15-year-old girl. (Weiner received a 21-month prison sentence.) Iran’s moderate President Hassan Rouhani trounced a hard-line challenger to secure reelection. One year ago: The House voted to create an independent commission on the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, sending the legislation to the Senate. (Senate Republicans would block creation of the panel.) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to press ahead with a ﬁerce military offensive in the Gaza Strip, pushing back against calls from the United States to wind down the operation. Today’s Birthdays: TV personality David Hartman is 87. Actor James Fox is 83. Actor Nancy Kwan is 83. Rock singer-composer Pete Townshend (The Who) is 77. Concert pianist David Helfgott is 75. College Football Hall of Famer and former NFL player Archie Manning is 73. Singer-actor Grace Jones is 71. Rock musician Phil Rudd is 68. Actor Steven Ford is 66. Actor Toni Lewis is 62. Actor Polly Walker is 56. Actor Jason GrayStanford is 52. Gospel singer Israel Houghton is 51. Rock singer Jenny Berggren (Ace of Base) is 50. Former race car driver Dario Franchitti is 49. Country/rock singer Shooter Jennings is 43. Actor Drew Fuller is 42. Actor-comedian Michael Che (chay) (TV: “Saturday Night Live”) is 39. Christian rock musician Tim McTague (Underoath) is 39. Actor Eric Lloyd is 36. Pop singer Sam Smith is 30. Actor Nolan Lyons is 21. CONTACT US 825 Third Ave., Gallipolis, OH, 45631 740-446-2342 All content © 2022 Gallipolis Daily Tribune and The Daily Sentinel edition. All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law. REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT/ GROUP PUBLISHER Lane Moon lmoon@aimmediamidwest.com EDITOR gdtnews@aimmediamidwest.com SPORTS EDITOR Bryan Walters, Ext. 2101 bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com Ohio Valley Publishing ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Matt Rodgers, Ext. 2095 mrodgers@aimmediamidwest.com CIRCULATION MANAGER Derrick Morrison, Ext. 2097 dmorrison@aimmediamidwest.com TRUMAN F. ‘HARRY’ BURNETTE WELLSTON — Truman F. “Harry” Burnette, age 84, of Wellston, passed away Tuesday, May 17, 2022, at Jenkins Care Community in Wellston. The youngest of 10 children, Harry was born September 11, 1937 in Gallia County, to the late Truman Fulton Burnette and Stella Smith Burnette. Harry retired from Kyger Creek Power Plant and later owned and operated the Motor Parts Company in both Gallipolis and Middleport. Harry was a fun-loving jokester who never met a stranger. He enjoyed golﬁng, ﬁshing and being around his family and friends. Harry was a member of the Morning Dawn Lodge #7 F.&A.M., the Shrine Club and the Elks Lodge, all in Gallipolis, and was also a Kentucky Colonel. He is survived by his wife, Sue Hall Burnette; daughter, B.J. Ervin; grandson, Justin K. Ervin (Erica); granddaughter, Courtney Sue Ervin (Aaron Ward) and greatgrandchildren, Zane and A.J. Ervin, all of Wellston. Besides his parents, Harry was preceded in death by his siblings, Morris, Vinton, Woody, Clyde, Claude, Bobby, Mary Ann, Rachael and Helen. Calling hours will be Friday, May 20, from 5-7 p.m. at the McWilliams Funeral Home in Wellston. Cremation will follow. In lieu of ﬂowers, the family would appreciate contributions in Harry’s memory be given to Shriner’s Hospital for Children, 3229 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229. Online condolences can be sent to the family at www.mcwilliams-funeralhome.com. VIRGINIA M. WEARS POMEROY — Virginia M. Wears, 103, of Pomeroy, went to be with her Lord on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. She was born on April 20, 1919, in Cheshire, to the late Sterl and Edith (Herrmann) Abbott. Virginia was a loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She is preceded in death by her parents; loving husband of 59 and a half years, Walter C. (Pete) Wears; three brothers; and a sister. Virginia is survived by a brother, Larry Abbott (99); four children, W. Paul Wears, Lois Ann Werry, Janet Eblin, and Reta Ord; 13 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; 29 great-great-grandchildren; and 1 great-great-granddaughter in heaven. Funeral services will be held on Friday, May 20, 2022, at 11 a.m. at Anderson McDaniel Funeral Home in Pomeroy. Burial will follow at Rocksprings Cemetery. In lieu of ﬂowers, donations can be made in memory of Virginia to the Rock Springs United Methodist Church Mail to: Rock Springs United Methodist Church, 34500 Rocksprings Road; Pomeroy, OH 45769. DEATH NOTICE MILLER HARTFORD, W.Va. — Vaughn Leroy Miller, 73, of Hartford, W.Va., died May 18, 2022, at his home following a brief illness. There will be no public services at this time. Arrangements provided by Foglesong-Casto Funeral Home, Mason, W.Va. 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. Card shower POMEROY — Marg Reuter will be celebrating her 98th birthday on May 29. Cards may be sent to 138 Beech St. Pomeroy, OH 45769. NSDAR meeting Return Jonathan Meigs Chapter NSDAR’s next meeting will be an outing at Tu-Endie-Wei Park, Point Pleasant, W.Va. The meeting/outing will be on Saturday, May 21, beginning at 1 p.m. A tour of the park will be conducted by park staff. This is a brown-bag lunch, in case of rain we will be indoors. If you need a ride, call Opal at 740-992-3301. Memorial Day events GALLIA COUNTY —The 2022 Gallipolis Memorial Day Parade, organized by the Gallia County Veterans Service Commission, will be held on Monday May 30. The parade will begin at 10:30 am and end at City Park at approximately 11:00 am with a ceremony to follow. All veteran service organizations, businesses, foundations and other community support groups are invited to participate. Those interested are asked to contact the Gallia County Veterans Service Ofﬁce at 740-446-2005 no later than Friday May 20. SHADE — Post 128 of the American Legion of Middleport will provide the honor ceremony at Burlingham Church and Cemetery at 1 p.m. on May 30. There will be a gathering after the ceremony for a program, displays, music and refreshments. Southwestern High School Alumni banquet GALLIA COUNTY — The Southwestern High School Alumni Banquet will be held at Southwestern Elementary School on May 28. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. Cost of meals will be $20 per person. Please contact Jeanie Hively at (740) 245-9740 for further information on attending. es. Registration begins at 5 p.m. and dinner served at 6 p.m. Women’s health screening POMEROY — The Ohio State University mobile mammography unit will visit the Meigs County Health Department on May 26. Eligibility includes women 40 years or older, or 35 years with a physician’s order, and no current breast symptoms. Contact Courtney Midkiff at 740-992-6626 for an appointment. Cheshire Alumni Banquet CHESHIRE — The Cheshire High School Alumni Reunion will be held May 28 at 5 p.m. There is no charge to attend. Elks Scholarships GALLIPOLIS — The Gallipolis Elks Lodge #107 scholarships are now available for graduating high school seniors from Gallia and Meigs counties and Mason County, W.Va. Applications are available in guidance counselor ofﬁces at area high schools. Awards will be based on the applicant’s ﬁnancial need, scholastic achievements and leadership qualities. Deadline to return the application to the Elks Lodge is July 5. Applications can be mailed to Past Exalted Ruler’s Association, Gallipolis Elks Lodge #017, 408 Second Avenue, P.O. Box 303, Gallipolis, OH 45631. Road closures MEIGS COUNTY — A tree trimming project begins on May 3 on SR 124, between U.S. 33 and SR 833. The road will be closed where work is taking place between 8 a.m. - 3 p.m., Monday-Friday. This is a moving operation. Estimated completion: May 27. Storytime at the library MEIGS COUNTY — Story Time is held at each Meigs Library location weekly. Bring preschoolers for stories and crafts. Mondays at 1 p.m. at Racine Library; Tuesdays at 1 p.m. at Eastern Library; Wednesdays at 1 p.m. at Pomeroy Library; and Thursdays at 1 p.m. at Middleport Library. Kyger Creek Alumni dinner Needlework Network ADDISON — The Kyger Creek High School Alumni Dinner will be held on Saturday, May 28, 2022, at River of Life U.M.Church Fellowship Room. Located .3 mile from Route 7 in Addison (Addison Pike). All classes will be recognized, highlighting special class- POMEROY — Join the Needlework Network on Wednesday mornings at 10 a.m. in the Riverview Room at the Pomeroy Library. Socialize and craft with experienced fabric artists. Bring your work in progress to share with the group. Beginners welcome. GALLIA, MEIGS CALENDAR OF EVENTS Editor’s Note: The Daily Sentinel and Gallipolis Daily Tribune appreciate your input to the community calendar. To make sure items can receive proper attention, all information should be received by the newspaper at least ﬁve business days prior to an event. All coming events print on a space-available basis and in chronological order. Events can be emailed to: TDSnews@aimmediamidwest.com or GDTnews@aimmediamidwest.com. Friday, May 20 POMEROY — The Pomeroy High School Class of 1959 will meet at noon at Fox’s Pizza. GALLIPOLIS — Ohio AFSCME Retirees, Subchapter 102, Gallia & Jackson Counties will meet 2:00pm at the Gallia County Senior Resource Center, 1165 State Route 160, Gallipolis, OH. Members are asked to follow all CDC guidelines.For more information, contact Floyd Wright at 740-245-0093. Saturday, May 21 MIDDLEPORT — The Middleport Fire Dept. will be hosting a chicken BBQ beginning at 11 a.m. For pre-order, call 740-992-7368 and leave a message. Monday, May 23 POMEROY — The regular meeting of the Meigs County Public Library Board will be at 1 p.m. at the Pomeroy Library. POMEROY — Book Club at the Pomeroy Library will be at 4 p.m. Read and discuss “The Four Winds” by Kristin Hannah with the group. MIDDLEPORT — The May meeting for the Veterans Service Commission will be at 9 a.m. at 97 N. Second Ave. in Middleport. Tuesday, May 24 POMEROY — Acoustic Night at the Library at the Pomeroy Library will be at 6 p.m. Informal jam session. Listeners welcome. Thursday, May 26 POMEROY — The Meigs Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors will hold their monthly meeting at noon at the district ofﬁce at 113 E. Memorial Drive in Pomeroy. �NEWS/WEATHER Ohio Valley Publishing Moms seeking formula tire of hearing ‘just breastfeed’ Pa. GOP Senate primary still neck-and-neck By Marc Levy The contest was within a couple thousand votes overnight, out of more than 1.2 million cast. Trailing in a distant third place in the seven-person HARRISBURG, Pa. — Heart surgeon-turned-TV celebrity Dr. Mehmet GOP primary ﬁeld was conservative Oz and former hedge fund CEO David activist Kathy Barnette. The Associated Press has not called McCormick went into Wednesday essentially tied in Pennsylvania’s hotly the race. Some counties had yet to contested Republican nomination for tabulate all of their mail-in ballots and an open U.S. Senate seat, expected to the counting of provisional, overseas and military absentee ballots could be among the nation’s most competilast all week. tive races in the fall. Associated Press By Rebecca Boone, Lindsey Tanner and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher Associated Press Morgan Fabry via AP Morgan Fabry, shown with her daughter in Chicago, people who respond to her problems finding baby formula by saying she should just breastfeed are adding to the stress Fabry as the shortage of formula drags on. TODAY 8 AM WEATHER 2 PM 66° 76° 79° AccuWeather.com Asthma Index™ Temperature The AccuWeather.com Asthma Index combines the effects of current air quality, pollen counts, wind, temperature, dew point, barometric pressure, and changes from past weather conditions to provide a scale showing the overall probability and severity of an asthma attack. (in inches) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Wed. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date Trace 3.27 2.73 20.45 17.27 SUN & MOON Today 6:13 a.m. 8:38 p.m. 12:05 a.m. 9:15 a.m. Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Last New First May 22 May 30 Jun 7 Full Jun 14 SOLUNAR TABLE The solunar period indicates peak feeding times for ﬁsh and game. Major Today 3:19a Fri. 4:29a Sat. 5:34a Sun. 6:32a Mon. 7:22a Tue. 8:06a Wed. 8:45a Minor 9:35a 10:44a 11:48a 12:16a 1:10a 1:55a 2:34a 0-2 Low; 3-4 Moderate; 5-6 High; 7-8 Very High; 9-10 Extreme POLLEN & MOLD Major 3:51p 5:00p 6:02p 6:58p 7:46p 8:28p 9:06p Minor 10:07p 11:15p ---12:45p 1:34p 2:17p 2:56p WEATHER HISTORY Dense smoke from forest ﬁres in the interior of the nation caused unusual darkness at midday in New England on May 19, 1780. Noon seemed almost as dark as midnight, causing chickens to roost. SAM BADRAN, MD, FACOG Schedule Your Consultation Today 2520 Valley Dr. • Point Pleasant, WV • 304.857.6503 pvalley.org Low Moderate High Moderate High Lucasville 84/67 Very High Source: Hamilton County Department of Environmental Services AIR QUALITY 0 50 100 150 200 300 500 Primary pollutant: Ozone 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. Wed. Location Willow Island Marietta Parkersburg Belleville Racine Point Pleasant Gallipolis Huntington Ashland Lloyd Greenup Portsmouth Maysville Meldahl Dam Flood Stage 37 34 36 35 41 40 50 50 52 54 50 50 51 Level 12.73 16.98 21.89 12.75 12.89 26.09 12.89 26.00 34.10 12.26 19.80 34.60 19.40 Portsmouth 84/67 24-hr. Chg. +0.40 -0.46 +0.13 +0.04 +0.13 +0.60 +0.49 -0.78 -0.39 -0.04 -1.50 -0.30 -2.20 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022 Ashland 83/66 Grayson 83/66 MONDAY 80° 53° TUESDAY 70° 52° Cloudy and cooler with a thunderstorm Not as warm with high clouds WEDNESDAY 80° 60° 83° 61° Warmer with sun through high clouds Cloudy and warm with a strong t-storm NATIONAL CITIES Marietta 85/62 Murray City 84/63 Belpre 85/62 Athens 85/62 St. Marys 85/62 Parkersburg 83/62 Coolville 85/62 Wilkesville 86/62 POMEROY Jackson 86/62 86/63 Ravenswood Rio Grande 86/63 86/64 Centerville POINT PLEASANT Ripley 83/67 GALLIPOLIS 86/64 86/64 86/63 South Shore Greenup 84/66 83/66 42 Logan 84/63 McArthur 85/62 Very High Primary: mulberry/oak/ragweed Mold: 834 Hot with some sun Adelphi 83/66 Chillicothe 84/66 SUNDAY 95° 67° Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Waverly 84/65 Pollen: 625 Low MOON PHASES Dr. Sam Badran is a board-certiﬁed surgical gynecologist. When a woman needs surgery, Dr. Badran believes the most important priority is managing her safety as a patient. His second priority is to perform the woman’s surgery in a minimally invasive way so that she can recover and get back to living life quickly. Dr. Badran has the expertise and Pleasant Valley Hospital has the technology to do both things well. These are among the many ways that Pleasant Valley Hospital is making a difference in women’s health. SATURDAY Partly sunny, hot and humid 5 Primary: cladosporium, other Fri. 6:12 a.m. 8:38 p.m. 1:03 a.m. 10:26 a.m. FRIDAY A stray thunderstorm this afternoon. Partly cloudy tonight. High 86° / Low 64° HEALTH TODAY Precipitation with Minimally Invasive GYN Surgery 94° 67° Statistics through 3 p.m. Wed. 77° 52° 77° 55° 92° in 1962 36° in 2014 MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN WOMEN’S HEALTH EXTENDED FORECAST 8 PM ALMANAC High Low Normal high Normal low Record high Record low hourly wages in low-paying jobs. Those women tend to have even fewer supports to be able to continue to breastfeed.” Stress releases a hormone that makes it difﬁcult to produce milk, she said. Millions of babies in the U.S. rely on formula, which is the only source of nutrition recommended for infants who aren’t exclusively breastfed. Shortages have forced some parents to switch formulas, which doctors say is ﬁne in most cases. But two children in Memphis, Tennessee, were recently hospitalized due to a switch in formula related to the shortage, Dr. Mark Corkins of the Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital told The Associated Press Wednesday. The division chief of Pediatric Gastroenterology at the hospital said the two children who previously required a “speciﬁc dietary needs” formula were admitted earlier this month for dehydration after the parents attempted to switch to a separate formula. One child was discharged Tuesday, while the other remained in the hospital in stable condition. The two received IV ﬂuids and supplemental nutrition. second, I thought, ‘I can do this, I can advocate for myself,’ and again, it just didn’t work.” Her youngest, Evangeline, was born three months ago. Chini is supplementing with formula. There are various barriers to breastfeeding, including medical issues for the baby or mom and work and living conditions. Dr. Lori Feldman-Winter, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ breastfeeding group, said exclusive breastfeeding for the ﬁrst six months is recommended and safe for most babies, but meeting the recommendations can be “very challenging.” Infants with an uncommon condition called classic galactosemia are unable to metabolize sugar in breast milk and need to be fed formula, Feldman-Winter said. Some medical conditions make it difﬁcult for women to breastfeed, and it isn’t recommended for those with HIV or undergoing cancer treatment. And exclusive breastfeeding is difﬁcult for working women, who have to pump repeatedly throughout the day. “There’s even greater barriers in underserved areas, women working for OH-70269448 As Morgan Fabry drives around Chicago looking for baby formula that is in short supply, she can’t help but be bothered by comments from people who don’t understand why she can’t breastfeed. Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended for the ﬁrst six months of life by major medical entities like the World Health Organization, giving rise to the saying, “breast is best.” But breastfeeding doesn’t work for everyone, and that mantra is only adding to the stress Fabry and other parents feel as the shortage drags on. “The bottom line is fed is best,’’ said Fabry, 34. “I’m getting triggered by people who say, ‘Oh, just breastfeed.’” At the center of the shortage is the largest domestic manufacturing plant in Michigan, which the U.S. government is working to reopen. The Biden administration is also allowing more imports from other countries. Corryn Chini avoided the baby formula aisle during her grocery shopping trip in Dayton, Ohio this week. With enough formula in her cupboard at home for a week or two, there was no sense in letting the empty shelves trigger feelings of anxiety and guilt. For Chini, the guilt comes from lingering feelings of failure after she was unable to exclusively breastfeed, starting with her ﬁrst baby in 2018. “Breastfeeding was a huge struggle and I felt an immense amount of guilt around not succeeding,” Chini said. “In the end I was never able to produce enough, and we had a late diagnosis of tongue-tie, and it was a mess. 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GOP gov pick could turn election claims into action By Steve Peoples, Marc Levy and Farnoush Amiri Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. — Doug Mastriano is not the only candidate who won a Republican primary on Tuesday after embracing Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen. But no GOP contender did more to subvert that presidential election -- and no one may be better positioned to subvert the next one -- than Mastriano if he’s elected Pennsylvania’s governor. In one of the most politically competitive states in the U.S., the newly minted Republican nominee for governor was deeply involved in the former president’s efforts to overturn the last election. He was at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection. If he’s elected in November, Mastriano has pledged to end no-excuse vote by mail, a process Carolyn Kaster | AP State Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin, a Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor, gestures as he speaks at a primary night election gathering in Chambersburg, Pa., with his wife, Rebbeca. Mastriano, a vocal backer of former President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims that the 2020 election of Joe Biden was fraudulent, will face Democrat Josh Shapiro, the state’s attorney general, in the November general election. that hundreds of thousands used in this week’s primary. He also wants to force millions of registered voters to register again. While he would have to contend with a Legislature that may not go along with his plans, he would still have signiﬁcant authority over elections because Pennsylvania is one of the few states where governors have the power to appoint the secretary of state. As Pennsylvania’s chief elections ofﬁcial, that ofﬁcial oversees how elections are managed, gives counties guidance on how to conduct elections and, crucially, certiﬁes the ﬁnal results. With his far-right brand of politics, Mastriano’s victory actually A third of US should consider wearing masks, officials say By Zeke Miller and Mike Stobbe Associated Press OH-70286194 WASHINGTON — COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States – and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health ofﬁcials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking. Increasing numbers of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations are putting more of the country under guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that call for masking and other infection precautions. Right now, about a third of the U.S. population lives in areas that are considered at higher risk — mostly in the Northeast and Midwest. Those are areas where people should already be considering wearing masks indoors — but Americans elsewhere should also take notice, ofﬁcials said. “Prior increases of infections, in different waves of infection, have demonstrated that this travels across the country,” said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, said at a White House brieﬁng with reporters. For an increasing number of areas, “we urge local leaders to encourage use of prevention strategies like masks in public indoor settings and increasing access to testing and treatment,” she said. However, ofﬁcials were cautious about making concrete predictions, saying how much worse the pandemic gets will depend on several factors, including to what degree previous infections will protect against new variants. has been seen by some as a gift for Democrats, leaving Republicans with a candidate so out of step with Pennsylvania that he would struggle in a general election campaign. But Pennsylvania was one of the critical states that Trump won in 2016, and he lost it by just over one percentage point in 2020. With that in mind, Democrats made an urgent case for their supporters to take Mastriano seriously. “People should be terriﬁed,” said Jamie Perrapato, executive director of the pro-Democrat group Turn PA Blue. “We have literally opened the door to a conspiracy theorist who was at the insurrection.” As the reality of Mastriano’s victory settled in on Wednesday, there were early signs that GOP ofﬁcials may ultimately rally behind their party’s new standard bearer, even if the prevailing mood among leading Republicans was dark. “For the Democrats, it’s their dream candidate,” said Republican strategist David Urban, a Trump ally who called Mastriano “out of step” with the state’s broader electorate. Still, he noted that Mastriano has time to re-focus his message to expand his appeal. “There’s a lot at stake here,” Urban said. “The governor controls the presidential election in ‘24. I hope he can moderate his message.” Speaking on Tuesday night after winning the primary, Mastriano made clear he had no plans to suddenly pivot to the center ahead of a general election campaign against Democrat Josh Shapiro. He denied that he was an extremist. “They like to call people who stand on the Constitution far right and extreme. I repudiate that. That is crap. That is absolutely not true,” Mastriano said, contending it’s the Democrats who have “gone extreme.” Mastriano’s rhetoric on elections is not the only issue drawing attention. He has called abortion the “No. 1 issue” in the campaign and has promised to ban all abortions —no exceptions for rape, incest or the life of the mother — if given the chance. He also aligned himself with failed Senate candidate Kathy Barnette, who was under ﬁre for making homophobic and Islamophobic statements several years ago. State GOP ofﬁcials spent the ﬁnal weeks of the primary campaign warning voters that Mastriano was too toxic and too far right to defeat Shapiro. They pushed some competitors to leave the Republican primary to consolidate votes behind Mastriano’s nearest rival. It didn’t work. While the ﬁnal votes are still being counted, Mastriano is likely to win the primary by more than 20 points. Takeaways: Election denier wins, bad behavior dooms Cawthorn By Jill Colvin and Nicholas Riccardi and former hedge fund Associated Press CEO David McCormick were virtuWASHINGTON — Former President Donald ally tied late Tuesday, Trump’s inﬂuence was with more Budd enough to elevate his votes left to Senate candidate to victory in North Carolina on be counted. Trump had suffered Tuesday, while his pick in Pennsylvania remained a loss last week when Charles Herbster, his in a tough ﬁght in that endorsed candidate in state’s Senate primary. Nebraska’s gubernatorial In a key congressional primary, ﬁnished second race, a Republican conafter being accused late gressman’s bad behavior in the campaign of gropﬁnally caught up with ing young women. Trump him. is facing down another And in the Pennsylpossible defeat in next vania governor’s race, a Trump-backed candidate week’s high-stakes goverwho has spread lies about nor’s primary in Georgia, the 2020 vote count won where his candidate is the GOP nomination, trailing in both polls and putting an election denier fundraising. within striking distance of running a presidential Election denialist wins key battleground state in Republican primary 2024. Trump has made elecTakeaways from Tuestion denial a key loyalty day’s primaries in Penntest in the Republican sylvania, North Carolina, Party, and that may have Kentucky, Idaho and kneecapped his party in Oregon: Pennsylvania with the victory of Mastriano, a vocal election denier. Trump’s winning streak Mastriano backed continues baseless reviews of The former president the election results in entered the primary Pennsylvania, where season on a high after Democrat Joe Biden won JD Vance, his endorsed candidate in Ohio’s hyper- by nearly 100,000 votes. competitive GOP Senate He organized buses to ferry Trump supporters contest, shot from third to Washington for the to ﬁrst. Trump added to his tally Tuesday night in “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the Jan. 6 U.S. several states. Capitol insurrection. And Trump had shocked he says that if he’s electparty faithful in North ed, he’ll ferret out fraud Carolina when he partly by making every endorsed U.S. Rep. Ted single voter in the state Budd, a little-known reregister. congressman, last June Mastriano was the for the Senate seat being front-runner even before vacated by retiring Republican Richard Burr. Trump’s endorsement late last week helped cement But after a rocky start, his victory. All the major Budd easily captured his party’s nomination, pass- statewide Republican hopefuls in one way or ing a crowded ﬁeld of GOP rivals that included another cast doubt on the election results, but the state’s former goverMastriano was by far the nor, Pat McCrory. loudest and that’s what And in Pennsylvania’s won him Trump’s nod. GOP race for governor, With Trump prioritizTrump’s endorsed candiing fealty to his election date, the far-right Doug Mastriano, easily won the lies over all else, many nomination — though he Pennsylvania Republicans fear the former president was already well ahead in the polls when Trump has undermined their chances in the crucial weighed in just days state. That led them to before the primary. try to coalesce around a His nod was widely seen as an effort to hedge last-minute alternative to Mastriano, but the effort his bets and guarantee failed. a victory in the state in Mastriano will face case his endorsed candidate for Senate, celebrity Democrat Josh Shapiro, the state’s attorney genheart surgeon Mehmet eral, in the November Oz, loses his race. Oz general election. Shapiro, who was uncontested, has appeared eager to Cawthorn take on Mastriano, running a television ad calling Mastriano “one of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters,” a move that seemed designed to boost the state senator with GOP voters. Mastriano has said he wouldn’t have certiﬁed Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania if he’d been governor then. That raises questions about the 2024 presidential election and whether Mastriano, if elected, would follow the will of the voters if a candidate he opposes were to win the state. In conservative Idaho, Phil McGrane, an establishment-backed Republican, just narrowly defeated an election denialist in their primary for secretary of state. GOP voters have had enough Even in Trump’s Republican Party, there are limits. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, the youngest member of Congress, was ousted from ofﬁce on Tuesday by state Sen. Chuck Edwards after a rocky ﬁrst term ﬁlled with salacious headlines and scandals. The young congressman, who uses a wheelchair after a car accident, became a media sensation when he ﬁrst won a House seat at age 25, but he may have gotten singed under the spotlight. Cawthorn last month was cited for carrying a handgun through an airport security checkpoint — his second such citation. In March, he was cited for driving with a revoked license after being stopped for speeding twice. 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Kayla Evans secured a regional berth for the Lady And they are off and runTornadoes with a third place ning. ﬁnish of 5 feet in the high The ‘Buckeye’ side of the jump ﬁnal. Ohio Valley Publishing area No other local athletes has hit full stride as all six secured a top-4 ﬁnish at the area schools have scored points following Day 1 of the district tournament during Day 1 ﬁnals. Division II and Division III Adena leads the girls meet southeast district track and after three events with 28 ﬁeld championships being points. Southern is sixth with respectively held at Meigs High School and Nelsonville- 10 points, while South Gallia (4) and Eastern (3) respecYork High School. tively sit ninth and 10th out Eastern, Southern and of 11 scoring teams. South Gallia all secured Huntington currently leads points on Monday evening at the D-3 competition, and each the D-3 boys meet through four events with 28 points. school has already advanced bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com Bryan Walters | OVP Sports River Valley senior Ethan Schultz clears an obstacle in the 300-meter hurdles event held on April 12 at River Valley High School in Bidwell, Ohio. The Eagles are eighth out of 13 scoring teams with eight points, while the Rebels (5) and Tornadoes (2) are currently ninth and 11th overall. The EHS quartet of Connor Nolan, Brayden O’Brien, Koen Sellers and Rylee Barrett secured a regional berth with a runner-up effort in the 4x800m relay with a time of 8:48.14. Levi Wolford is also headed to regionals for SGHS after placing fourth in the long jump with a distance of 21 feet, 2 inches. As for the Division II meet through one day, only See TRACK | 7 Eastern falls to Huntsmen in 8 innings, 4-3 By Bryan Walters bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — The Eagles just couldn’t ﬁnish what they started. The Eastern baseball team built a 3-1 lead through three full frames, but host Huntington rallied with three unanswered runs and ultimately walked away with a 4-3 victory in eight innings Tuesday night in a Division IV sectional ﬁnal in Ross County. The 11th seeded Eagles (10-15) beneﬁtted from some different forms of run manufacturing in the top of the ﬁrst as the guests didn’t produce a single hit, but a pair of walks and a trio of ﬁelder’s choices led to a quick 2-0 cushion. Sean Stobaugh and Brayden Smith respectively crossed home plate on a ﬁelder’s choice and a bases loaded walk to give EHS its early advantage. The sixth seeded Huntsmen countered in their half of the ﬁrst as DJ Crocker singled home Braylon Leach to cut the deﬁcit in half at 2-1. The score stayed that way until the top of the third as Jace Bullington singled, advanced to third on an error and scored after Bryce Newland delivered a sacriﬁce bunt for a 3-1 edge. Leach scored from third on a wild pitch in the ﬁfth for a 3-2 contest, then an error allowed John Black to score from second base in the sixth — tying the game at 3-all. EHS went down in order in the top half of the seventh, but the guests also dodged a bullet by stranding runners at ﬁrst and second with one away in the home half of the seventh — forcing extra innings. Eastern — which had its last 10 batters retired successfully — went 1-2-3 in the eighth, but the Huntsmen answered the bell in their half of the eighth as Seth Throckmorton started things with a single. Throckmorton later advanced to second on an Eastern error, then another Eagle error allowed Throckmorton to cover the remaining 180 feet as his score completed the 4-3 outcome. Huntington outhit the Eagles by a 6-3 overall margin and also committed only two of the eight errors in the contest. The Huntsmen also stranded nine of the 14 runners left on base. Bullington paced EHS with two hits, while Brady Yonker added the other safety. Crocker paced the hosts with two hits. Brady Rockhold took the loss for Eastern See EASTERN | 7 OVP SPORTS SCHEDULE Thursday, May 19 Baseball Adena at Meigs, 5 p.m. Softball Wahama at Man (if needed), 6 p.m. Track and Field Class AA meet at Laidley Field, 10 a.m. Friday, May 20 Track and Field Class A meet at Laidley Field, 5 p.m. Saturday, May 21 Baseball Southern vs. Valley at Chillicothe VA, 7 p.m. Track and Field D-3 Districts at Nelsonville-York HS, 9:30 a.m. Class A meet at Laidley Field, 10 a.m. D-2 Districts at Meigs HS, 3 p.m. Photos by Bryan Walters | OVP Sports Southern senior Will Wickline delivers a pitch during Tuesday night’s Division IV sectional championship baseball game against Manchester in Manchester, Ohio. Tornadoes topple Manchester, 6-3 By Bryan Walters nerves of a younger team or the fact that we haven’t played in about a week. Either way, that’s someMANCHESTER, Ohio thing that we’ve got to — The trip was perhaps get cleaned up and quick. a bit too business casual, There’s no more room for but with the deal closed that at this point in the … the next destination tournament. will be all about the busi“This is a big moment ness. for this program and The Southern basethese kids, especially with ball team committed the way the season has an uncharacteristic ﬁve turned out for us. We’re errors, but the ninth proud and we’ll enjoy it, seeded Tornadoes ultibut we have more work to mately made an early put in and goals to shoot 3-run advantage hold up for. We have to be betTuesday night during ter if we want to have a a 6-3 victory over host chance to keep this thing Manchester in a Division a going. At this point, the IV sectional ﬁnal contest goal for everyone at this in Adams County. level is perfection. That’s The Tornadoes (12-5) what we need to be aimbuilt a quick 3-0 lead in ing for this weekend.” the top of the ﬁrst and Southern had six batwas up 3-1 after an inning ters get hit by a pitch by of play, and the guests night’s end, and half of led by as many as ﬁve those came in the top half runs (6-1) by the midway Southern senior Lincoln Rose hits full stride while heading to third of the ﬁrst. point of the sixth. base during Tuesday night’s Division IV sectional championship Kaiden Michael and The eighth seeded baseball game against Manchester in Manchester, Ohio. Lincoln Rose ended up Greyhounds (14-5) ralat ﬁrst and second with lied with two runs in the banner since winning the in Tri-Valley Conference one out due to being hit D-4 district crown back in Hocking Division play. home half of the sixth to by pitches, then WickAnd, with at least one 2019 — advance to Sattrim the deﬁcit in half, line received a walk that but MHS was never clos- urday’s district semiﬁnal more game waiting in loaded the bases. the wings, Wickline is round, where they will er the rest of the way. Michael scored on a SHS starter Will Wick- face top-ranked Lucasville conﬁdent that his troops Valley at 7 p.m. Saturday will be ready for the job at wild pitch while the other line — who went the two runners moved up a hand this weekend. at the Chillicothe VA distance for the winning base, then Josiah Smith “We show up and we decision — recorded the Memorial Stadium. doubled in both Rose and After COVID cancelled play baseball. This is last of his nine strikeouts Wickline for a quick 3-0 the 2020 campaign and a what we’ve done all year with two away and the long. We don’t score a lot cushion. rare winless postseason bases loaded in the botA dropped third strike of runs, but we do know tom of the seventh, allow- last spring, seventhgave Manchester a bashow to generate runs year SHS skipper Kyle ing the guests to sneak and we do all of the little erunner with one away away with the 3-run deci- Wickline was glad to be in the home half of the things that it takes to headed back to the dission. ﬁrst, then a pair of errors be successful,” Wickline The Tornadoes — who trict level … especially allowed Logan Bell to said. “We had too many following a 2022 season secured the program’s that saw his squad win an errors in the ﬁeld tonight. 23rd overall sectional See TORNADOES | 7 Maybe that was the title and ﬁrst postseason outright championship bwalters@aimmediamidwest.com �SPORTS/CLASSIFIEDS Ohio Valley Publishing Thursday, May 19, 2022 7 Lady Falcons blank Man, 2-0 By Colton Jeffries While the White and Red put up a stout defense, the Lady Hillbillies’ (13-5) MAN, W.Va. — One defensive effort was also more step until the big nothing to scoff at. stage. Through the ﬁrst four The Wahama softball innings of Tuesday’s team started its regional ballgame, the Lady campaign the right way Falcons were only able to with a 2-0 road win advance to second base Tuesday evening over once. the Man Lady Hillbillies The White and Red had in the ﬁrst game of the Region IV championship an offensive breakthrough in the top of the ﬁfth, series. when Amber Wolfe hit The Lady Falcons a single to bring home (25-2) were led in the Lieving, giving the road pitchers circle by Mikie team their ﬁrst run. Lieving, who allowed The visitors wouldn’t no hits, no runs and one walk while striking out 17 get another runner home in seven innings pitched. until the very last inning, when a double hit by Lauren Noble hit a double to bring home Lieving. On the other side, the Lady Hillbillies only got one runner on base throughout the seven innings, a walk in the bottom of the ﬁrst. Man went 3-and-out through the rest of the six innings, giving Wahama the win. The Lady Falcons outhit their opponents 6-0, committing no errors. Leading the White and Red in hits were Wolfe and Morgan Christian with two. Rounding out the Wahama hitting were Lieving and Noble. Lieving scored both runs while Wolfe and Noble notched an RBI each. This was Wahama’s third no-hitter of the 2022 season, including the second for Lieving. Game 2 is slated to be played at Wahama on Wednesday evening. The game time has been moved up to a 5 p.m. start. © 2022 Ohio Valley Publishing, all rights reserved. sixth as Michael scored on a bases-loaded walk to Brandon Laudermilt, then Derek Grifﬁth came home on a 2-out Brayden Otto single. Another Southern error allowed both Jackson Poole and Dalton McDonald to score in the bottom of the sixth for Manchester, making it a 6-3 contest headed into the ﬁnal frame. The guests outhit the Greyhounds by a 6-4 over- all margin and also had all ﬁve errors in the contest. SHS also stranded 10 of the 17 runners left on base. Smith paced Southern with two hits and three RBIs, while Rose, Wickline, Laudermilt and Otto added a safety apiece to the triumph. Poole, McDonald, Karson Reaves and Drew Kennedy had a hit each in the setback for MHS. Wickline allowed three runs (one earned), four hits and two walks over seven frames while fanning nine. Bell took the loss after surrendering four earned runs, four hits and two walks over 2.1 innings while striking out one. © 2022 Ohio Valley Publishing, all rights reserved. scoring teams. Warren also leads the boys ﬁeld through four events with 21 points. Both Gallia Academy and River Valley are tied for ﬁfth with 12 points, while Meigs sits eighth out of 15 scoring teams with 10 points. The remainder of the Division II and Division III southeast district track and ﬁeld championships will be held on Saturday. © 2022 Ohio Valley Publishing, all rights reserved. cjeffries@aimmediamidwest.com Tornadoes From page 6 come around and score for a 3-1 deﬁcit after one full frame. With the bases loaded and one away in the top of the third, Smith delivered a single that allowed Rose to come plateward for a 4-1 SHS advantage. The Tornadoes extended that lead to 6-1 in the Track feet, 2 inches. The Blue Angels are fourth in the Day 1 standings with 11 points From page 6 through three events. 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Football Playoff. Day’s raise makes In the classroom, him the latest coach Day’s program has to crack $9 million had four consecutive per year, making him one of the highest-paid semesters with a team cumulative grade-point coaches along with average of at least 3.00, Alabama’s Nick Saban the university said. and Clemson’s Dabo The university also Swinney and putting increased the salaries his contract in line with recent deals given of four other coaches, including men’s basto Michigan State’s ketball coach Chris Mel Tucker and LSU’s Holtmann, who will Brian Kelly. The extension, which get a three-year extension and an annual salwas to get formal ary bump of $500,000 approval by university that pushes his annual trustees on Wednespackage to about $3.5 day, bumps up the 43-year-old Day’s total million. Under the three-time salary package about Naismith Coach of the $2 million annually Year ﬁnalist, the Buckand would keep him eyes have compiled in Columbus at least a record of 107-56, through the 2028 seaincluding a 59-40 Big son. Ten mark. Day was appointed AP Sports Writer Eastern From page 6 after surrendering one unearned run and two hits over two innings while striking out one. Dalton Black picked up the win after three innings of perfect of relief while fanning four. © 2022 Ohio Valley Publishing, all rights reserved. Bryan Walters can be reached at 740-446-2342, ext. 2101. (304) 675-1333 or fax to (304) 675-5234 XXX�NZEBJMZTFOUJOFM�DPN�t�HEUDMBTTJöFET!BJNNFEJBNJEXFTU�DPN HEUMFHBMT!BJNNFEJBNJEXFTU�DPN 7KH *DOOLSROLV 3RVW RI WKH 2KLR 6WDWH +LJKZD\ 3DWURO is accepting résumé's for an independent contract worker to provide services at the Gallipolis facility. The Independent Contractor must use his or her own tools, equipment and supplies to complete the work described. 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As the with being targeted in only supermarket for miles, it became a sort of a place that has been so vital to the community. community hub on Buffalo’s East Side — where Before Tops opened on the East Side in 2003, you chatted with neighresidents had to travel to bors and caught up on other communities to buy people’s lives. nutritious food or settle “It’s where we go to for snacks and higherbuy bread and stay for priced staples like milk 15, 20 minutes because if you just go in for a loaf and eggs from corner of bread, you’re going to stores and gas stations. The fact that there ﬁnd four or ﬁve people are no other options you know, we’re going lays bare the racial and to have a couple of coneconomic divide that versations before you leave,” said Buffalo City existed in Buffalo long before the shooting. Councilman Ulysees O. “People talked about Wingo, who represents the demographics, the the struggling Black neighborhood, where he income levels, the crime and other factors,” grew up. “You just feel good because this is your Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said. “I felt that store.” the money here was as Now residents are grieving the deaths of 10 green as the money any- where, that there was a lot of money to be spent in this community and there were needs to be served.” Wingo said it was no accident that the gunman chose the store to carry out the shooting. “Knowing the density of African Americans on this side of the city and going to that Tops knowing that this side of the city is a food desert was intentional, it was deliberate, and it was evil,” Wingo said. “And we know that because he did reconnaissance the day before to ensure that there were Black folks there.” Tops said Wednesday its store remains under active police investigation. Once that’s done, “we will have a team assess next steps with the intention of rebuilding and repairing the store for the community in as short a period of time as possible,” it said. In the meantime, Tops and others are working to make sure residents don’t go without. A makeshift food bank was set up not far from the supermarket. The Buffalo Community Fridge received enough monetary donations that it will distribute some funds to other local organizations. Tops also arranged for a bus to shuttle East Side residents to and from another of its Buffalo locations. Pastor James Giles, coordinator of the antiviolence group Buffalo Peacemakers, said he has been juggling calls offering help from area churches and businesses, the Buffalo Bills, competing grocery stores and even the utility company after the shooting. “I want us to be the City of Good Neighbors. And I do hope that we aspire to live up to that nickname,” Giles said. 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From page 1 Ohio University College of Health and Sciences in July 2020 found rural counties have higher incidences of suicide and less resources to treat mental health conditions in Ohio. Of Ohio’s 88 counties, 37 have above the United States average deaths from suicide. Adams, Bail From page 1 bipartisan measure, which include several conservative groups, say it gives judges more discretion to keep dangerous offenders behind Interrogation, uncertainty for surrendering Mariupol troops By Oleksandr Stashevskyi and Ciaran McQuillan Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine — Nearly 1,000 last-ditch Ukrainian ﬁghters who had held out inside Mariupol’s pulverized steel plant have surrendered, Russia said Wednesday, as the battle that turned the city into a worldwide symbol of deﬁance and suffering drew toward a close. Meanwhile, the ﬁrst captured Russian soldier to be put on trial by Ukraine on war-crimes charges pleaded guilty to killing a civilian and could get life in prison. Finland and Sweden applied to join NATO, abandoning generations of neutrality for fear that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not stop with Ukraine. The Ukrainian ﬁghters who emerged from the ruined Azovstal steelworks after being ordered by their military to abandon the last stronghold of resistance in the nowﬂattened port city face an uncertain fate. Some were taken by the Russians to a former penal colony in territory controlled by Moscow-backed separatists. While Ukraine said it hopes to get the soldiers back in a prisoner swap, Russia threatened to put some of them on trial for war crimes. Amnesty International said the Red Cross should be given immediate access to the ﬁghters. Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty’s deputy director for the region, cited lawless executions allegedly carried out by Russian forces in Ukraine and said the Azovstal defenders “must not meet the same fate.” It was unclear how many ﬁghters remained inside the plant’s labyrinth of tunnels and bunkers, where 2,000 were believed to be holed up at one point. A separatist leader in the region said no top commanders had Ag Day From page 1 Southern were in charge of making ice cream and to teach youth about the dairy industry. Several of the kids said the ice cream was Board From page 1 OH-70286554 hired as substitute summer-school teachers at Meigs Middle School for the period of June 6-July 1: Vicki Hughes and Stacie Roach. BACKED BY A YEAR-ROUND CLOG-FREE GUARANTEE EXCLUSIVE LIMITED TIME OFFER! 15% & 10 % OFF YOUR ENTIRE PURCHASE * NATIO ER G 5% OFF WE INSTALL YEAR-ROUND! 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Military analysts, though, said the city’s capture at this point would hold more symbolic importance than anything else, since Mariupol is already effectively under Moscow’s control and most of the Russian forces that were tied down by the drawn-out ﬁghting have already left. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said 959 Ukrainian troops have abandoned the stronghold since they started coming out Monday. Video showed the ﬁghters carrying out their wounded on stretchers and undergoing pat-down searches before being taken away on buses escorted by military vehicles bearing the proKremlin “Z” sign. In a sign of normalcy returning to Kyiv, the U.S. Embassy reopened on Wednesday, one month after Russian forces abandoned their bid to seize the capital and three months after the outpost was closed. A dozen embassy employees watched solemnly as the American ﬂag was raised. “The Ukrainian people, with our security assistance, have defended their homeland in the face of Russia’s unconscionable invasion, and, as a result, the Stars and Stripes are ﬂying over the Embassy once again,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. Other Western countries have been reopening their embassies in Kyiv as well. fantastic and that Racine Southern FFA station was their favorite station. Overall, Ag Day with the youth was a tremendous success, with sparks of interest being lit, lessons learned, and questions answered. Submitted by Braydon Essick, 2022-23 Racine Southern FFA Reporter. The board approved the resignation of William Ellis, Director of Operations and Transportation, effective June 3. The board approved the resignation of Ann Ramey, Title I Teacher at Meigs Intermediate School, due to retirement purposes effective September 9. The board approved the resignation of Joyce Hill, Title I Teacher at Meigs Intermediate School, due to retirement purposes effective August 5. The overnight ﬁeld trip request from Daniel Thomas, Archery Coordinator, for 48 students to attend the NASP National Tournament in Louisville, Ky., departing May 11-13 was approved. The next meeting of the Meigs Local Board of Education is set for May 25 at 6:30 p.m. at the board ofﬁce. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 05. May Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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