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PADEN CITY LABOR DAY PARADE, SEE A8 Still Free! Ohio news Inside Pages A3, A7, B3, B6, B7 9-11-01: A look back INNformer Pages A4-A5 Volume 8, No. 18 The Wells Inn, 316 Charles St. Sistersville, WV 26175 September 10, 2021 Full agenda for Paden City Council By Charles Winslow PADEN CITY – Accepting the resigna- tion of a council member, designation of Paden City as a Superfund site and problems with a tree trimming company that doesnt want to honor their con- tract with the city were among issues facing the Paden City Council Tuesday, Sept. 7, due to the Labor Day holiday. During the nearly two-hour meeting, Council accepted the resignation letter from Second Ward council member Tonya Shuler, effective at the end of the month. The community activist was appointed to council in February by late mayor Rick Casteel to fill the seat vacated upon the resignation of J.P. Springer. In her resignation letter she said she was moving out of Paden City. Rain, mud After Public Works Commissioner Josh delay Hillbilly Billiter said the process to have the area around the former Band Box dry Hundred to cleaners location declared a Superfund site by the Environmental Protection April 2022 Agency should move forward this week, Shuler added the area has to MIDDLEBOURNE – Steady overnight have that designation before the EPA rain Sept. 5 letf the grounds at Tyler can remediate the area. Shuler, who County Speedway heavily satu- had been a leading voice publicizing rated, making the pit area and other Paden Citys PCE contamination parts of the facility impassable. problem, said she had been in contact with the EPA and the representative With showers forecasted to con- had pushed back having a community tinue throughout the day, Lucas Oil meeting, due to the pandemic. “They Late Model Dirt Series oiffcials, Hill- would be willing to do a virtual meet- billy Hundred promotor Carl Short, ing, but she is not allowed to come here and Tyler County Speedway oiff- because of COVID,” she said. April 8, 2022. To receive a partial re- Billiter explained once the city is des- cials jointly agreed to postpone the fund, call the Tyler County Speed- 53rd Annual Hillbilly Hundred. way track oiffce at 304-771-5661. ignated a Superfund site, the remedia- tion people will show up and the city The 53rd running of the Hillbilly will be placed on a list to get money. For the latest breaking news con- Hundred will now be contested Fri- cerning the Lucas Oil Late Model The project, itself, will see the EPA day, April 8, 2022. This event will “dig up the contaminated soil and re- Dirt Series, including the latest se- place it with clean, safe dirt,” he said. precede an already scheduled ries standings, 2021 tour schedule, double-header weekend at driver information, and more visit Billiter also proposed a couple of ordi- Hagerstown Speedway Saturday, nances for council to discuss. The first the oiffcial website at: www.lucas- April 9, 2022, and Port Royal would set a uniform minimum depth dirt.com. Speedway Sunday, April 10, 2022. See A3 for results from the rst two for the different utilities within the city Fans that purchased a three-day limits. “They hit the gas line for the days of the Hillbilly Hundred week- mayors house, it was seven inches ticket should keep those to use end. deep,” Billiter said. “This will protect the citizens and the city from issues,” he explained. Long Ridge power plant nears completion The second would have the height of the exterior curb boxes for water service raised to six inches above the ground By Charles Winslow burning 100 percent green hydrogen over the next decade. and require that houses have a shut off HANNIBAL, Ohio -– The power plant being constructed valve within 12 inches of where the water The $600 million facility is the first purpose-built hydro- at the Long Ridge Energy Terminal on Route 7 in Monroe line enters a home. While acknowledg- gen-burning power plant in the United States and is the first ing that people want to be able to mow County, Ohio, is nearing completion and is expected to be to blend hydrogen in a General Electric H-class gas turbine. over their boxes, Billiter said he has run fully operation early this month. In November the gas turbine, built at GEs gas turbine plant into problems located the boxes during in Greenville, South Carolina, will run on 5 percent hydro- Located on the former Ormet campus, the new 485 MW emergencies, such as when water lines in power generating station will be initially fueled by Utica gas gen by volume, with the rest Utica gas and will transition homes needs to be shut off. “And having into 100 percent hydrogen over time. By switching to hy- then in November is expected to start transitioning to run an interior shut off 12 inches is a build- drogen the plant will reduce its carbon footprint to zero. on a blend of hydrogen and natural gas, with the goal of ing code requirement,” he said. During the Appalachian Hydrogen & Carbon Capture Con- Both proposed ordinances will be ference held earlier this year, Robert “Bo” Wholey, president brought up in a future council meeting. of Long Ridge Energy, explained that when his company started to contact data centers, big users of electricity, com- Council also put off making a decision panies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft said they wanted to close an alley from Main Street to to buy carbon-free- electricity and would not buy electricity Boston between 6th and 7th avenues to from a power plant solely fueled by natural gas and they compile a list of other “paper streets” would only buy the percentage of the electricity generated that was fueled by hydrogen. the city may want to eliminate. These rights-of-way were laid out but never developed and the city still retains The power station is the centerpiece of a proposed revital- ization of the former Ormet Primary Aluminum Corpora- ownership and responsibility for the tion plant which shut down its aluminum smelter in October land. To abandon the property the city is required to hold public hearings and 2013. Long Ridge has announced plans to develop a 124- acre data center campus with 300 MW of capacity. Continued on page A2 INDEX A look back at Sept. 11, 2001 A4 RECIPES: Breakfast B1-B3 Prep football A6 PTT cracker plant on hold B3 WV Fall foliage map A2 Ticket scalping warning A7 Comics B4-B5 Bullring wrap-up A3 Hannibal lock report A7 Classieds / Puzzles B6 AG mobile oiffce visit A3 Paden City Labor Day A8 Event calendar B7
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