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PARKERSBURG For more than 44 years, Jess Mancini has been a presence around the Mid-Ohio Valley and the offices of The Parkersburg News and Sentinel. On ....
Last week excerpts from a news item by Betty Stout, writer for The Parkersburg Sentinel, began the first week of Remember a Rural Cemetery Month; her article co ....
[email protected] Harry Kurtz, a member of the 1949 Big Red football team holds, the game ball from their victory over Clarksburg Washington Irving. Their victory was dedicated to Jimmy Rollins. The ball was signed by every member of the football team. Kurtz would later marry Jimmy Rollins’ twin sister, Joan. (Photo by Bob Enoch) The item that follows was taken from “Highlights on Sports,” by W.A. (Bill) Babcock, and appeared in the Oct. 20, 1949 edition of The Parkersburg Sentinel: Jimmy Rollins and the 1949 Clarksburg Washington Irving Football Game will be remembered by the Big Red football players and all the fans who saw the game. The fans did not realize at the time the significance of the part which the desperately sick Jimmy Rollins had in that game, but everyone who saw the game could not help but be aware, in retrospect, of the effect on the players of the telegram received by Coach Scott at half time advising him of Jimmy’s death but expressing ....