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Roy Exum: My Friend, Bobby Lee Friday, February 26, 2021 - by Roy Exum
Roy Exum
So, the day came that I had closed the door to my office, as I sometimes did after we’d gotten that day’s editions of the Chattanooga News-Free Press to bed. My door was never closed … I hate that … but it only meant I was writing a column and was a sign to everybody I needed an hour or so of quiet. But, no, soon there was a slight knock on the door and, so help me, through the window stood “Colonel Sanders” of fried chicken fame. As I jumped to let the visitor in, he asked if I was “Roy” and as I realized this wasn’t the Harlan Sanders I had met at the Kentucky Derby, my visitor said, “We really need to talk.”
Reports/Ohio State Highway Patrol
¯ A two vehicle crash occurred Jan. 12 on Ohio 60 near the intersection with Ohio 339 in Waterford Township. Jeffrey W. Lang, 62, of 17861 State Route 676, Marietta, was turning westbound on Ohio 339 after traveling northbound on Ohio 60. Jane A. Gillespie, 66, of 12929 State Route 339, Vincent, was driving eastbound on Ohio 339 in her 2010 Ford F-350 and stopped at a red light. When Lang, driving a 2005 Peterbilt 378, attempted to make the turn, he struck the left front of Gillespie’s vehicle with his trailer. No citations were issued.
¯ Justin M. Offenberger, 29, of 500 Echo Valley Road, Waterford, was traveling northbound on Ohio 339 near milepost 17 in Watertown Township Jan. 21 when he went off the side of the roadway, crossing the centerline in a 2007 Toyota Sequoia. After crossing the centerline, his vehicle went off the left side of the roadway before striking a guardrail and coming to a rest on the right side of the roadway. He was