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A look The back at price the Tyler of opioid County addiction Home See A4 See A6 Still Free! Ohio news Inside Pages A2, A5, A11, Make #AlmostHeaven go viral! B10, B11 INNformer Page A2 Volume 6, No. 12 The Wells Inn, 316 Charles St. Sistersville, WV 26175 June 14, 2019 Close to state Paden City fiscal distress Council designation, considers Monroe County 1% sales tax to close costly By Charles Winslow care center PADEN CITY – Authorizing Mayr o Clyde Hochstrasser to explore a 1 per- By Daniel Tyson cent sales tax, problems with the PCE WOODSFIELD, Ohio – The Monroe removal experiment and listening to County Commission voted to shutter citizens’ complaints were among the is- the county-funded care center shortly sues discussed at the regular Paden after its June 10 meeting with a repre- City council meeting June 3. sentative from the State Auditor’s Of- Toward the end of the 90-minute fice to explain the options the county meeting, Hochstrasser raised the pos- has as it approaches a fiscal distress sibility of adding a 1 percent city sales designation. tax on purchases made within Paden The vote was 2-1. Commissioners Carl City, noting that Sistersville already has Davis and Tim Price voted for the clo- one and New Martinsville is planning sure, Mick Schumacher against. to implement the same. Commissioners were mum prior to the “What this is is 1 percent on the pur- meeting about closing the Monroe chases that people make. It’s not a city County Care Center, which the county tax. Lets not get people up in a roar. has given more than $6.6 million since This is a tax on the same things the December 2015. other cities are doing around us,”ex- plained Hochstrasser before the coun- The center is in an “increasingly diiff- cil unanimously voted to go forward. cult financial situation and the impact “It could generate us a lot of income it has and continues to have on the and we are in dire need,” he said. county finances” is why Price said he “It’s not as easy as just voting on it,” voted to close it. cautioned Carolyn Flannery, the city’s Monroe County, while rich in natural attorney. resources, apparently is cash strapped. City of Sistersville workers place brand-spankin’-new American Earlier in the meeting, in response to a Just hours before the vote, Bob Burlen- flags along Route 2 in preparation for Flag Day June 14. citizen’s concern about the water con- Long may they wave o’er the land of the free because of the brave. tamination, the mayor disclosed that ski gave an hour-long presentation on Continued on page A2 Continued on page A3 Sistersville Council talks bad buildings, VFD issues By Charles Winslow stakeholders determine priority criteria in order to , group of people, stakeholders, into a volunteer board most effectively use limited resources targeted toward willing to go out and inventory properties, the repre - SISTERSVILLE – “Bad buildings’ and questions sentative suggested. over how the Sistersville Volunteer Fire Department’s sites that will have the highest redevelopment impact.” The Bad Buildings was part of a follow up from las new truck will be titled were among items Sistersville The organization’s website says “the BAD Buildings t City Council considered during its regular monthly month’s council meeting where Luke Peters, with th e Program, which is made possible through funding from meeting June 10. the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, is a Mid Ohio Regional Council, suggested Sistere svill During the 90-minute meeting, representatives from statewide initiative that provides technical assistance participate in a regional code enforcement progm ra the BAD Buildings Program gave a brief overview of and site analysis tools to develop and enhance aban- and he would prepare a memorandum of under- their program with hopes the city would sign on. The doned/dilapidated buildings programs in West Virginia standing for the council after determining what e th communities. The program addresses barriers to iden- cost to city residents will be. handout stated the key principles of the program in- tifying, prioritizing and redeveloping BAD buildings. The group last presented in Sistert sville in Augus clude: “1) The program prepares property for reuse 2017 and plan on another meeting in the future. and reintroduction into the local market. 2) Local The organization will work with the WVU Law Clinic teams use a transparent and eiffcient process to iden- to establish ownership of properties that will be tar- Council also turned their attention to the fire depart - tify, evaluate and prioritize buildings targeted for geted with the end goal being redevelopment or dem- ment and ratified the sale of an old truck to Gary Cei l demolition, deconstruction or rehabilitation. 3) Local olition of those properties. If interested, develop a Continued on page A11 Citizens protest Ferry to skip season planned demolition By Charles Winslow of county Poor Farm SISTERSVILLE – The Sistersville Ferry will not run this year due to the MIDDLEBOURNE – Although the lack of a pilot and, as a result, the board voted to suspend the 2019 op- Tyler County Commission has already erating season, Barbara Gage, chair of the Sistersville Ferry Board, has placed advertisements requesting bids for announced demolition of the Tyler County Home, “We have every intention of opening for the 2020 season when we can some residents still feel deeply that it secure a pilot and ensure our bills can be met,” she said. The Ferry Board should be preserved. has been unable to locate a qualified river pilot willing to work for the “We want the commissioners to notice city-owned service during its short operating season. The hourly pay rate that people care. It deserves to be pre- that the unsubsidized operation is offering is far below the industry stan- served,” said Ann White, who recently dard and the position does not qualify for unemployment during the joined the preservation efforts. months when the ferry doesn’t run. A picket took place Saturday, June 8, Where once the ferry was used by commuters and ran seven days a wee k with a dozen concerned citizens holding from early spring through the beginning of December, in recent years it has been reduced to running Thursday through Sunday and the season signs at the highway advocating for the and “Let Us Vote!” shortened from May through early October. home’s preservation. White mentioned “We received a lot of support. People the protestors began by the home, but Compounding the problem, the landing across the river in Fly, Ohio, is that drove by waved or honked their moved to the highway with signs that poorly designed with the access ramp’s grade being too shallow to permit read “My great-great grandma’s home” Continued on page A2 the ferry’s eight-car barge to land safely during high water, causing it to 3 Continued on page A INDEX Regional roundup A5 Wells retires from Wable A12 Events B5, B8-B11 Ohio small business exemptions A2 Opiod addiction A6-A7 Comics A12 Back Roads: Indian Creek B6 WV social media challenge A2 Tyler & Wetzel DOH roads list A8 RECIPES: Father’s Day B1-B2 Tyler County BOE B7 Letter to the editor A3 LEGISLATIVE UPDATE Hangover or illness? B3 Puzzles B8 Tyler County Home A4 May 20 special session A9-A10 Oil & gas news B3 Crossword answer B10 Matamoras council A5 Long Ridge Energy A11 How to interview B4 Happening this weekend! B11
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