Lower Salem News

The average debt for recent U.S. college graduates tops $25,000, but a pair of Fort Frye High School seniors expect their number to be zero.

Not long after Chad Presley opened Precision Cleaning in Marietta in 2007, a friend contacted him about helping his sister, who had been diagnosed with breast cancer.

"Small but mighty" is the motto at one country church, St. Henry Catholic Church, in a small rural village of Harriettsville, Ohio.

Tom Gibbs was clad in a Warren Local school district shirt when he arrived at a Fort Frye Local Board of Education special meeting Wednesday night, but he'll soon be wearing two hats as the superintendent of both districts.

None of the three candidates interviewed by school board members, employees and residents this week will be the next superintendent of the Fort Frye Local school district.