Piketon News

FRANKFORT -- Despite being rookie head coaches, the Scioto Valley Conference Preview is nothing new for Adena coach Jeran Cox and Huntington coach Sarah Smith.

The Early Lung Cancer Detection Program for Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant Workers was officially restarted this morning in a ceremony conducted in Piketon.

Editor, the Gazette: This letter is in response to an op-ed piece from Rob Portman concerning the recent denial of a federal loan guarantee to the United States Enrichment Corporation.

OSU South Centers will hold the workshop, Thursday. OSU South Centers in Piketon is holding a deer damage workshop on Thursday.

A Piketon, Ohio man was pronounced dead on US 23 Sunday afternoon after his bicycle was struck by a van near the George Hollow Road.

A 54 year old Piketon man was killed after he was struck by a van on Us Rt 23 yesterday.

There will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday in Piketon for a 42-foot mobile unit with a CT scanner that will be used in resuming tests to detect early lung cancer for current and former workers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant.

A father charged with four counts of child endangering related to a May fatal fire was arraigned Friday morning in Marion County Common Pleas Court.

WAVERLY: William Humphrey 'Bill' Hopkins, 57, of N. East St., Waverly, died Sunday, November 8, 2009 at the Pike Community Hospital, Waverly, Ohio.

Cheyenne Tackett has been charged with child endangering in the fire that killed two of her four children COLUMBUS, Ohio _ Four counts of child endangering have been filed against the Pike County mother of two children who died in a Marion County apartment fire that Ohio authorities believe was started by a child playing with a cigarette lighter.

Nov. 11, 2009 Former Huntington Nickel Plant Building Buried in Piketon with Hazardous, Classified Materials By Tony Rutherford Huntingtonnews.net Reporter Portsmouth, OH - Growing up in Huntington pre or post Cold War brought whispers of a so-called secret facility at the Nickel Plant, which put the city on the bulls eye short list for a Russian ...

The mother of two children killed in fire on Blaine Avenue earlier this year was arrested Monday on charges of child endangering.

In the next few weeks, Ohio might lose thousands of jobs in addition to the nearly 111,000 already lost this year.

MANSFIELD -- Gary and Carol Grogg, who own and operate Gary's Discount Outlet in the West Park Shopping Center, pride themselves on looking for great deals and passing it on to their customers.

As of today, 264 employees at The Brown Co. of Waverly LLC are without jobs. Because of what Brown plant manager Scott Beisner, in a letter to Waverly Mayor Dale Reed, called 'the result of Brown's failure to obtain additional capital and business over the last few months,' the company has been in negotiations to sell the automotive and metal ...

PIKETON --The OSU South Centers Endeavor Center, Shyville Road, is offering a free USDA BioPreferred Program from 9 to 10 a.m. Thursday.

Under the category of keeping the pressure on, House Minority Leader John Boehner last week wrote to President Barack Obama urging him to make good on past promises to support a federal loan guarantee needed to finance a uranium-enrichment plant in Piketon, Ohio.

The Fourth District Court of Appeals will convene at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 12 in the Pike County Common Pleas Courtroom at the courthouse in Waverly to consider cases from Athens, Jackson and Washington counties.

The Ohio Senate recently approved a resolution sponsored by State Senator John Carey of Wellston, which urges the federal government to take action to ensure that two critical advanced energy development projects in Southern Ohio have the resources necessary to move forward.

In SVC action Friday night, Westfall blanked Huntington 31-0, and Adena defeated Piketon 21-14. Paint Valley walked away with a 57-26 win over Unioto.