Meigs County News

Dan Polletta spotlights the hit musical 'Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson' with the star of the new production onstage at The Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewood.

This weekend well over 1,000 motorcycles descended upon Pomeroy, Ohio for the biggest Meigs County Memorial Day Bike Run ever.

Memorial Day, original called Decoration Day, is a day for remembrance of those who have died in our nation's service.

Approval of a grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission will allow construction to proceed on a new $2 million Meigs Center for the University of Rio Grande/Rio Grande Community College.

Placing flags on the graves of Meigs County veterans on Memorial Day has been something members of American Legion Posts have been doing for years.

The success of a food drive is measured by the amount collected, and this year the Pomeroy postal workers had a successful year.

The closer we come to Memorial Day, the more we seem to reflect and reminisce on bygone days, and long to return to the place of our youth.

The Meigs County Commissioners will host a second public hearing on the proposed sales tax and conveyance fee this Friday.

While the annual Memorial Day biker run in Meigs County will be held on Sunday, the Christian Motorcyclists Association , Meigs County Chapter, will hold a 6 p.m. bike blessing service on the Pomeroy parking lot on Saturday.

Native to Japan and China, the hemlock woolly adelgid is a tiny aphid-like insect that you can barely see with the naked eye.

The Gallia-Meigs Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol reports that Jonathan Dailey, 32, of Portland was found dead in a car along Township Road 39 in Meigs County.

The closer we come to Memorial Day, the more we seem to reflect and reminisce on bygone days, and long to return to the place of our youth.

The Meigs County District Public Library Summer Reading Program will kick off on June 4, with registration beginning on May 21.

The valedictorian and salutatorian of the 2012 graduating class of Meigs High School have been announced by Steve Ohlinger, principal.

Servant Event Sunday will be observed by the Lutheran Social Services on May 20, with local churches being invited to participate with offerings for the outreach ministries and disaster response programs of the agency.

Meigs County will be serving another helping of "Taste of Home Magazine's Cooking School" on Saturday, May 19 at Meigs High School.

Following a public viewing of two Rutland Township roads and a public meeting on Thursday, the Meigs County Commissioners approved the vacation of both roads.

Folks in the Cutler area were breathing a sigh of relief Thursday after learning their local post office is among several thousand rural postal facilities saved from the U.S. Postal Service chopping block.

There's more than one way to sort today's headlines. Is the Medical Mart's leasing progress a development in a controversy or just good news? Is the rally to celebrate the no-smoking rule at the Horseshoe Casino a controversy or just odd, given that nonpolitical rallies usually protest something? And we challenge you to say "Woolly Adelgid" three ... (more)

While no action of support or objection to the increase was taken by the group, it was the general consensus that members should be represented at the two public meetings on the issue of increasing the sales tax by one half of one percent which would take Meigs County to a total sales tax, state and county, of seven percent.