CHILLICOTHE— The Chillicothe Police Department invites everyone to join them on July 4 to celebrate Chillicothe Cares Community day. The event will feature food from local vendors, face painting, bounce houses, touch a truck, and much more. The celebration will take place from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Bolmer Field in Yoctangee Park.
Atomic Credit Union will be holding its annual school supply drive to support local students. During July you can donate school supplies to any of the 14 branches. The following supplies are needed:
Donations will be delivered to the local schools at the beginning of August. The credit union will also match all donations made.
CHILLICOTHE — The City of Chillicothe has declared an emergency with the replacement of a failed boiler that heats the Administration Building.
This will allow the city to solicit quotes for the replacement of a new boiler outside of the standard public bidding process, which is an effort to reduce the amount of time it takes to get a new boiler. Any interested contactor qualified to provide heating and cooling services that would like to provide a quote for a new boiler, and the installation, may contact the City Engineering Department no later than July 7 to schedule a site visit.
The selection will be made on several criteria, most notably the cost, lead time for the new boiler, and qualifications of the contractor. Sealed quotes, providing costs, lead times, and qualifications, must be received by Friday, July 15, at 2 p.m., where all quotes will be immediately opened and read. Please contact the City Engineering Department with questions, 740-773-8981.
CHILLICOTHE — If you want to watch the Chillicothe fireworks from Carlisle Hill...how about learning about the hill?
Join Kevin Coleman for two identical tours on the Carlisle Hill Steps: Sunday morning to get cool air and morning sun, and Monday evening to get to the top in time for the big show. Tours are 9 to 11 a.m. Sunday July 3, and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday July 4.
Half of the steps are steep and very uneven, so only those who are healthy, nimble, and daring are encouraged.
Meet at the bottom, at West 5th Street and Belleview Avenue, to head up the 5th Street Steps, jog downhill on Carlisle Place (the winding street up the hill), head up the Terrace Walk steps behind Rose Lane to Highland Avenue, and end at the Star on Highland Avenue at West Main.
You can walk back down with Coleman on Sunday. But on Monday, the city fireworks are set to start about 9:30 p.m., so bring flashlights, and expect to return on your own on sidewalks along streets.
It is $10 for adults, $5 for students, $15 for families (with children). Contact Coleman at ihs@horizonview.net, phone 740-775-4036, text 740-771-8574, or message from the "Intrepid Heritage Services" Facebook page - where you can find videos, photos, and some history on the topic.
Also join Coleman for walking tours of the Hoggard Trail in Buzzard's Roost the weekend after, with a special look at the abandoned township road, as well as the graveyard, house ruins, and farm remnants.
The Hoggard tours will be 2 to 4pm Saturday, July 9th, and 9 to 11am Sunday, July 10th, 2022 - also $10 for adults, $5 for students, $15 for families (with children).
A public hearing on the 2023 annual tax budget prepared by the fiscal officer of Huntington Township for the next succeeding fiscal year ending December 31, 2023. will be held at 5:30 p.m. July 7 at the Huntington Township Garage. In addition, the board wishes to inform the public of changes to the July and August regular board meetings. The July meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 7, at the township garage, and the August meeting will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, at the Township garage.
PIKE COUNTY — Audible testing of the Public Warning System (PWS) will be conducted at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Pike County on Wednesday, July 27 and Thursday, July 28, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Testing of the PWS is conducted to ensure the system functions as intended and to familiarize site personnel and the public with the audible warning tones of the sirens. This test will include the actual activation and sounding of the six exterior pole-mounted sirens that surround the DOE site in Piketon.
A public address announcement will be made over each siren speaker prior to activation of the siren stating, “This is a test.”
In the event of a real emergency, announcements will be made over the plant’s public address and radio systems.