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From recipes to Benefits Extracting festivals, of pets rare earth celebrate for seniors oxides Fall! See B3 See B5 See B1, C2, C22 Still Free! Ohio news Inside Pages A2, A4, A8, C3, C4, Academics also pad resumes! C6, C8, C10, C19-C21, C22 INNformer Page B4 Volume 6, No. 20 The Wells Inn, 316 Charles St. Sistersville, WV 26175 October 4, 2019 Monroe County: Care center sale, bridge repairs on tap MCCURDY UPS OFFER FOR OFFICIALS TAKE FIRST STEP CARE CENTER, BUT NO TAKERS TOWARD KNOWLTON BRIDGE WOODSFIELD, Ohio – Carson Mc- RECONSTRUCTION Curdy arrived at the Monroe County By Angela H. Cutrer Commissions meeting Sept. 24 with a WOODSFIELD, Ohio - During their new option pertaining to the Monroe Sept. 30 meeting, Monroe County County Care Center. Hed dropped the commissioners agreed to move forward lawsuit hed filed and offered to buy the with the redesign aspect of the project facility for 20 percent more than the to rebuild the Knowlton Covered offer from Alternative Living Solution, Bridge in Washington Township by ap- but on this day, he added another proving a $17,833 professional service $50,000. agreement. Commissioners were not amused. Last week, commissioners learned that McCurdy told the commissioners he the $950,000 granted in state funds for was offering $650,000 cash and “the the project had been rescinded due to offer was on the table. Im serious and inactivity. Now that commissioners have been serious the whole time,” he have moved forward with the redesign, added. “I hope to get (a decision soon) the money will be available. to ease concerns. I have the resources Most of the Knowlton Covered Bridge and the experience and this is cash. Its in Washington Township near Rinard more than the other offer and Im Mills, Ohio, fell into the Little Musk- ready to close Oct. 30 or before. Please ingum River July 5. The portions that give us consideration; its more money landed below were swept away or still and thats better than less.” McCurdy remain on the banks. In fact, one was represented by T. J. Schultz of Bar- landowner called the county engineer nesville. last week to report part of the bridge The commission had already met nu- had washed up on his land, three-quar- merous times with attorneys about an ters of a mile downstream. He wanted injunction McCurdy filed in July to to know if he should hold on to it. stop the sale of the center to Alternative There is not much left of the collapsed Living Solution, which had proceeded Continued on page A2 without a call for bids. The commis- sioners spent hours in two executive Paden City hires sessions Aug. 12 to discuss legal mat- A cut above ters concerning the injunction, which bond counsel contended the commissioners have “a The rst weekend of fall duty and obligation” to sell the facility was jam-packed with By Charles Winslow Continued on page A3 events throughout the area. PADEN CITY – Hiring bond counsel ABOVE: Squashcarver Gus to represent Paden City and setting the Smithhisler was on hand time and date for the annual Hal- WNF holds Friday at the 55th annual loween parade and trick or treating Barnesville Pumpkin were the main issues when Paden City monthly Festival working on an 1150-pound project. Turn to Council met for a 24-minute special A8 to see what he achieved session Sept 23. conference call in six hours of carving! While Halloween, Oct. 31, falls on LEFT: Marbles call to all Thursday this year, council decided to While the Wayne National Forests ages during Sistersville 20th hold the citys Halloween parade and planned Draft Assessment is still under Marble Festival. See page trick or treating Tuesday, Oct. 29, to review following Junes decision to A7. BELOW: Commanding avoid a conflict with a scheduled sport- delay its release in light of information general and wife watch Civil ing event. The parade will start lining that changed key sections, the WNFs War re-enactors during a Revision Team went ahead with the shootout at Blue & Gray up in front of the fire department at planned monthly conference call Oct. Days in St Marys. See page 5:30 for a 6 p.m. start followed by trick 2 to announce the forest service had B7 for more. or treating at 6:30. This year the kids just issued a report relating to the for- will have an extra 30 minutes to go est ecosystem and to answer general door to door as it ends at 8 p.m. questions and take comments from the Council also unanimously approved conference calls listeners. hiring the law firm of Steptoe and During the call, Carl Brooks, a public Johnson to represent the city during affairs specialist with the Waynes forest the upcoming water project bond sale. plan revision team, said they are still Steptoe and Johnson was one of only waiting on the problematic Terrestrial two law firms that responded for a con- Ecosystems report, which caused the tract valued at up to $30,000. initial Draft Assessment delay, and that Council also briefly discussed, but took his group is currently in standby mode. no action, on buying new radios for the He said the Draft Assessment should Paden City Police Department, which be released later this fall. is in the process of switching to Tyler Issuing the Draft Assessment is the first County E-911 dispatch from Wetzel step in the long, complicated and County. They also revisited the issue of sometimes contentious process of up- cameras at the park as well as residents dating the Waynes Land Management not mowing and maintaining their Plan, which outlines what, and under properties. what conditions, activities – including “Its time to start fining people who are natural gas development – can take not taking this seriously,” Mayor Clyde place within the Buckeye States only Hochstrasser stated. national forest. The next regularly scheduled meeting After briefly explaining the continued of Paden City Council is Monday, Oct. delay in releasing the Draft Assess- 7, at 7 p.m. at the city building located Continued on page A2 on Main Street. INDEX Candidate Murphy’s views A6 Academics also pad resumes B4 Halloween events C5-C7 Wetzel County Commission A6 Sistersville’s urban renewal B5 Football scoreboard C8 Sardis holiday cratf show A2 Cops & Courts A6 Rare earth project funding B5 Puzzles C9 Visitor from AutumnFest A2 New WVNCC head A6 Tyler & Wetzel DOH roads list B6 Classifieds C10 WV election cybersecurity A3 Sistersville’s Marble Festival A7 St Marys Blue & Gray Days B7 Comics C11-C14 Tyler County Commission A3 Barnesville’s Pumpkin Festival A8 INSIDER Events C15-C21 Regional roundup A4 RECIPES: Pumpkins & squash B1-B2 Harvest Festivals C2-C3 Crossword answer C21 West Virginia news A5 Perks of pets for elderly B3 Happening THIS weekend C4 Happening NEXT weekend C22-C23
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