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Brian Cook
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Live court slated at UL
Thu, May 1, 2008 @ 1:54PM
For some students of Union Local, Friday will preview the future for some and hopefully for others raise a red flag as Judge Frank Fregiato will take his courtroom on the road to middle school auditorium. The morning long hearings brings real live court cases in front of the student body. Some of these cases can range from petty theft to DUI charges. The purpose is to enhance the students’ realization that crime doesn’t pay.
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Rich Gibson
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Summer of Bummer?
Tue, May 6, 2008 @ 9:30PM
Between the Indians, Pirates and Reds, you'd think at least one of our regional favorites would be playing respectable baseball. Cleveland is easily the most disappointing of the trio. The defending A.L. Central champs have yet to hit their stride and have failed to generate anything resembling consistency. This past weekend's series against the perennial patsy Royals is an excellent example. The Tribe and C.C. Sabathia led late in Saturday's game only to cough up a late 2-0 lead and eventually fall. Sunday, they again wasted excellent pitching and were blanked, 2-0. I've said it before: I don't put much stock in the standings until Memorial Day, but Cleveland obviously needs jump-started. Hopefully, sooner than later. While there's every reason to believe the Indians will recover and enjoy another contending season, no such optimism to resport from the Pirates and Reds' camp. It truly appears these two train wrecks will battle for the N.L. cellar.
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Brianna Sadler
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Being of Sound Mind and Body
Wed, May 7, 2008 @ 2:37PM
I'm an animal lover, and I do what I can to get orphan dogs and cats off the street, having adopted my fair share of dogs and cats and finding homes for others. But I was amazed to learn of a woman in Belmont County who included in her will a large sum of money to be donated to the Belmont County Dog Pound upon her death. Recently, the Belmont County Commissioners passed a motion that accepted the bequeathed sum of $88,028.19 to be transfered to the dog pound for the purpose of helping the dogs find temporary homes until they can be placed with loving families. I was amazed that someone could be so generous. It made me sad though, thinking that, although this person has done a great dead to help the animals in her home county, perhaps she did it because she didn't have any person to which to leave her money. No one present at the meeting seemed to know who the woman was.
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Seth Staskey
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OVAC Track Recap
Mon, May 5, 2008 @ 4:35PM
The Ohio Valley Athletic Conference knows what colors to make this year's pennants for track and field after this weekend's Cal Giffin OVAC Track and Field Championships concluded at Shadyside's Fleming Field and Bellaire's Nelson Field. St. John Central ruled the 1-A girls field as we expected. Just too much talent in too many places. The Toronto boys prevailed in the smallest class with only 11 boys in the meet. Hard to believe isn't it, but the Red Knights are solid on the track with a lot of decent speed. Steubenville Catholic -- as expected -- rolled to the girls' title and then won a wide-open boys title going away. In both cases, the Crusaders just had too much speed. Freshman hurdler Teddi Maslowski gave fans a glimpse of the hurdling future in the Ohio Valley and Dan Cook showed what he can do in the short sprints. For the girls, folks like Bernadette Dubois and Jane Clare Vosteen also came up big.
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