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MEMBERS OF the Lansing Sportsmens Club present a check for $388,000 to the Perkins Field Committee on Wednesday during a Bridgeport Exempted Village School District Board of Education meeting. The donation will be used for work on the fieldhouse, which will be called “Lansing Sportsmens Club Fieldhouse.” From left are club members Rick Burlenski, Dan Nameth and John Henthorne, along with Ryan Kreiter of the Perkins Field Committee.
BRIDGEPORT When decades of flooding forced demolition of the century-old wooden, covered grandstands at Bill Jobko Stadium in Brookside two years ago, groups came together in an effort to bring football back to the community.
RIGHT: Babe Sidon, a teacher at Ayers Elementary School in Martins Ferry, is vaccinated Wednesday.
STAFF IN Belmont County school districts received their COVID-19 vaccines last week, with health department staff, volunteers and school nurses conducting clinics daily at different sites.
During his Thursday talk, Gov. Mike DeWine said the four-week drive to offer at least the first of two vaccines to all school staff would be met by the vast majority of districts despite snow and ice storms. The overall goal is to have all students back in class full time by March 1.
Belmont County’s school districts have shared that aim and have stressed keeping their students in the classrooms as long as possible. Throughout the week, more than half the staff members in each district were vaccinated. Schools will now look to ways to redress any disruptions in learning this school year.
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FILE - In this March 29, 2007, file photo, Baseball Hall of Famer Phil Niekro holds a knuckleball at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland. Niekro, who pitched well into his 40s with a knuckleball that baffled big league hitters for more than two decades, mostly with the Atlanta Braves, has died after a long fight with cancer, the team announced Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. He was 81. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
Ohio Valley native and Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Phil Niekro passed away Saturday night at home during his sleep in suburban Atlanta. Affectionately known as ‘Knucksie,’ he was 81 years old.
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In this March 29, 2007, file photo, Baseball Hall of Famer Phil Niekro holds a knuckleball at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland. Niekro, who pitched well into his 40s with a knuckleball that baffled big league hitters for more than two decades, mostly with the Atlanta Braves, has died after a long fight with cancer, the team announced Sunday. The Blaine native was 81.
Ohio Valley native and Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Phil Niekro passed away Saturday night at home during his sleep in suburban Atlanta. Affectionately known as ‘Knucksie,’ he was 81 years old.
Niekro spent most of his 24-year career with the Atlanta Braves. The righthander baffled opposing hitters and even some catchers with his patented knuckleball for 318 wins and and 3,342 strikeouts, along with his younger brother Joe who died in 2006 at the age of 61 from a brain aneurysm, are the winningest brother combo in MLB history with 539 victories.