By Fran Odyniec For The Madison Press In a baseball game played by 1860 rules, the Der Dutchman Long Johns bested the Ohio Village Muffins 8-1 Saturday afternoon, May 18. A highlight of the fourth annual Plain City Heritage Day, the game took spectators as well as players back to a time when gentlemen [...]
By Chris Miles Sports Editor The West Jefferson softball team continues to make history. The Roughriders (19-10) earned the school’s first-ever appearance in a district championship game with a 1-0 defeat of Centerburg Monday in a D-III tournament game played at Pickerington North. “This is something that hasn’t been done before,” WJ coach Jim [...]
Retha Mae Graul, 89, of West Jefferson, Ohio, passed away peacefully on Thursday, May 9, 2013. She was born July 31, 1923, in Elkins, West Virginia, to the late Edward and Pearl Walcutt. She was also preceded in death by husbands, Eugene Crank and Harold Graul; sisters, Ruth and Margie; children, Eugene and Bruce Crank. [...]
By Jane Beathard Staff Writer A London-area man will spend six months in prison for trafficking heroin on Jan. 17. Charles E. Kuhn, 35, 6515 Neil Road, pleaded guilty on Thursday in Madison County Common Pleas Court to the drug trafficking charge as part of a plea deal. Because Kuhn has prior trafficking convictions, [...]
By Chris Miles Sports Editor The Jonathan Alder baseball team found a way to deliver when it needed to and will move on in the Division II Central District tournament because of it. The Pioneers (19-8) scored five runs with two outs en route to an 8-1 second-round victory over visiting Lakewood Thursday. With the [...]
By Dean Shipley Staff Writer London is a former stop for runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad. That Civil-War-period fact is not lost to cyclists who are retracing the route, which courses northward from Alabama to Ontario, Canada. A group of seven cyclists pitched their tents Wednesday evening beneath the roof of the Prairie [...]
Walton W. “Corky” Eden III, 52, of Columbus, died unexpectedly on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at his residence. Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. He was born Dec. 5, 1960 in Columbus, Ohio. Preceded in death by his father, Walton W. Eden Jr.; grandparents; and niece, Amy. He is survived by his mother, [...]
By Jane Beathard Staff Writer London City Schools continue to get their financial house in order, according to treasurer Kristine Blind. Blind presented a revised five-year forecast for the school district at Tuesday’s board of education meeting. Revenues for the 2013 fiscal year ending on June 30 totaled $18,591,323, while expenses fell to $17,830,982. [...]
