Cyan Magenta Yellow Black U.S. ponders what Students visit might have been Washington, D.C., A6 at World Cup, B1 Middleport • Pomeroy, Ohio 50 CENTS • Vol. 59, No. 197 TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 2010 www.mydailysentinel.com OBITUARIES First of two Page A5 Byrd passes at age 92 expected • Patsy A. Rose Fitch BY ANDREW TAYLOR votes than 2003 invasion of Iraq has lost a voice of princi- arrests made • Ruth Dixon Howell ASSOCIATED PRESS any sena- when he was one of the ple and reason.” • Terry Douglas Moore tor in his- few to stand up against “He held the deepest WASHINGTON — tory — ceding warmaking pow- respect of members of in Middleport • Mary E. Morrow Robert C. Byrd, who rose and the ers to President George both parties, and he was • Myrtle Quillen from the poverty of West tenacity in W. Bush. generous with his time robbery • Jack B. Sheline Virginia coal country to which he Byrd was equally tire- and advice, something I Beegle: Men wielded become the sage and con- defended less in steering federal appreciated greatly as a butcher knives science of the U.S. Byrd the tradi- dollars to his state, one of young senator,” Obama Senate in a political tions and the nation’s poorest, and said in a statement. Flags BY BRIAN J. REED career stretching more prerogatives of the his efforts will live on in at the White House and [email protected] Rutland Ox than half a century, died Senate. the many highways and the Capitol flew at half- Monday. He was 92. Brandishing his copy buildings in West MIDDLEPORT — A staff Monday. Mason, W.Va., man is in Byrd’s desk in the of the U.S. Constitution Virginia that carry his A spokesman for the Roast set Senate chamber was that he always carried name. custody and Sheriff family, Jesse Jacobs, said Robert Beegle said a sec- draped in black, in recog- with him, he resisted any President Barack that Byrd died at about 3 for July 3 nition both of his attempt to diminish the Obama said the Senate ond suspect’s arrest is a.m. at Inova Hospital in expected soon for BY BETH SERGENT longevity — he served role of the Senate, as in “has lost a venerable longer and cast more the days leading up to the institution, and America Please see Byrd, A6 allegedly robbing a [email protected] Middleport convenience RUTLAND — store at knife point. Rutland’s Annual Ox Alexander Chandler, Roast will once again 21, Mason, W.Va., is celebrate America’s Hey mon! Got rhythm? jailed and will be charged with armed robbery, Independence Day with a Beegle said, for the rob- parade and events bery of the TNT Pit Stop planned for Saturday, near Story’s Run. July 3 at Fireman’s Park. Chandler and another, The parade will have a who remained at large theme of “Freedom is not Monday, allegedly wield- Free” with line up start- ed butcher knives as they ing at 9 a.m. at Depot St. robbed the store clerk of The parade steps off at 10 an undisclosed amount of a.m. going from Depot cash. Investigators were St. to Ohio 124, through able to identify the sus- downtown and ending at pects from a security Beech Grove Road. video, the sheriff said. There will be awards After leaving the store given for first and second with cash, the emotional place in the categories of clerk told investigators, horses, cars/trucks, the men left the store in a marching units, truck or SUV. bikes/four-wheelers, reli- Beegle said the coun- gious/non-religious. ty’s major crimes unit New this year is a cake decorating contest with Please see Robbery, A5 cakes following the theme of the parade and a pie contest featuring Please see Rutland, A5 Pomeroy discusses WEATHER levies for Beth Sergent/photo The Ark Band brought Reggae to the Pomeroy Amphitheater Friday night, opening the Rhythm on the River ballot concert series. Eilen Jewell is next up in the series, performing at 8 p.m. this Friday in the amphitheater. Rhythm BY BETH SERGENT on the River concerts are free and also feature the Big Bend Farmer and Artisan Market which opens at 5 p.m. [email protected] on Fridays on the upper parking lot. POMEROY — Three tax levies in Pomeroy are set to expire at the end of the year and at least two Nearly a thousand will likely be placed on High: Lower 80s. the ballot during the gen- Low: Lower 50s. eral election in affected by water November. Last night, Clerk- leak, boil advisory Treasurer Kathy Hysell told members of INDEX BY BRIAN J. REED utes before using it for Pomeroy Village Council [email protected] drinking or cooking. a one mill cemetery levy, 2 SECTIONS — 12 PAGES Customers in Bedford one mill street light levy CHESTER — Water and Scipio townships and two mill fire levy are Calendars A3 service to nearly 1,000 were not without water set to expire at the end of households in the during the service inter- the year, meaning the vil- Classifieds B3-4 Tuppers Plains-Chester ruption, but they are lage will cease collecting Water District was included in the boil advi- on them after 2011. Comics B5 restored Monday after- sory territory. Hysell said in discus- noon, after a broken Don Poole, General sions with Mayor John Editorials A4 water main and valve on Manager of the Tuppers Musser, who was absent Ohio 248 were repaired. Plains-Chester Water from the meeting, it was Sports B Section Customers in Chester, District, said the outage suggested council consid- Bedford, Scipio and affected customers in er placing the cemetery Chester Township west of and street light levies on © 2010 Ohio Valley Publishing Co. Salisbury townships are Photo courtesy of TP-CWD now under a boil adviso- Showalter Road. After a Kevin William of Tuppers Plains-Chester Water District during the general elec- ry until further notice. repair on the water main repairs a water mainline on Ohio 248 near Riebel tion in November, fol- Customers in those ser- near Riebel Road on Ohio Road Monday. The eight-inch valve pictured failed to lowed by placing the fire 248, the eight-inch valve levy on the ballot during vice areas are asked to open back up after a leak was repaired, so it needed boil water for three min- Please see Leak, A5 to be replaced, Manager Don Poole said. Please see Pomeroy, A2 Cyan Magenta Yellow Black Page A2 The Daily Sentinel REGION Tuesday, June 29, 2010 AEP provides scholarship funding USDA loans available for COLUMBUS — demands have doubled in cation. OFIC is governed American Electric Power just two decades, and by a Board of Trustees Company (AEP) has pro- work needs to be done to comprised of Ohio’s cor- local home purchases vided $35,000 in scholar- prepare. 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