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Mostly cloudy skies this evening will become partly cloudy after midnight. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Low around 70F. Winds light and variable. Updated: July 12, 2021 @ 1:00 pm
IRONTON â A South Point area man was sentenced Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to four counts of trafficking in meth in the vicinity of a school.
Dana Frye, 43, of County Road 18, South Point, was sentenced in the case by Judge Andy Ballard. He was given credit for 142 days already spent in jail toward the sentence. A felony drug possession charge was dismissed as part of a plea agreement.
The case has been set for trial May 27.
In an unrelated case, Donald Malone, 32, was convicted earlier this week on a charge of possession of drugs. It was the first trial held in common pleas court in more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
UNICOI â The town of Unicoiâs Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted to table a reconsideration of an engineering study of Paddle Creek Road on Monday.
The study, which was approved unanimously by the board during its Feb. 18 meeting, was set to be conducted by Tysinger, Hampton and Partners Inc. at a cost of $25,500.
âPaddle Creek has been studied by the state,â Alderman Wanda Ratliff said. âItâs been studied by our county road superintendent and thereâs no simple solution. It has a lot of complications.â
Ratliff said the cost of the repairs to the road would be too high for the town to afford, and widening the road to where it meets Carter County could potentially be dangerous.