Ironton, OH

 If you’re like me, the larger-than-life Dolly Parton has intersected numerous phases of your story.  My awareness of Dolly goes back nearly 60 years. Nashville’s WSM-TV (now WSMV-TV) carried “The […]

New program creates tax incentives to build At Thursday’s meeting, the Lawrence County commissioners took steps to address the housing shortage in the county and to get the engineer’s office […]

IRONTON, Ohio (WOUB) – The Archbishop McNicholas Rockets traveled to face the Ironton Fighting Tigers in a cross-conference matchup where the Rockets fell in a defensive battle, 17-10.   The... Read More

FOOTBALL SCHEDULE Thursday, Sept. 10 Sciotoville East at Manchester, 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11 (all games at 7 p.m.) OVC Coal Grove at Chesapeake Fairland at Rock Hill Gallia Academy […]

 Four baby goats at a petting zoo in North Carolina recently made national news, and not for the reasons anyone at a county fair would hope.  The goats had been […]

DBE open playground to students DEERING — When students returned last month for school at Dawson-Bryant Elementary, they saw a major project outside, tantalizingly close to completion. A new playground […]

 Special Needs Youth Sportsmen founder was 73 The founder of Special Needs Youth Sportsmen, George McCalvin, passed away Saturday, Aug. 29, at the age of 73. “We lost one of […]

FALL SPORTS SCOREBOARD Thursday, Sept. 3 VOLLEYBALL OVC Ironton 3, Fairland 1 (25-17, 25-22, 18-25, 25-22) South Point 3, Chesapeake 0 (25-10, 25-14, 25-20) Rock Hill at Portsmouth, no report […]

FOOTBALL SCHEDULE Thursday, Sept. 3 Sciotoville East 36, West Union 0 Friday, Sept. 4 Cincinnati McNicholas at Ironton Nelsonville-York at Coal Grove Northwest at Chesapeake Middle Tennessee Christian (TN) at […]

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