🌱 How the Pike County massacre still echoes in McDermott a decade later

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• How the Pike County massacre still echoes in McDermott a decade later

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📰 News we're reading

• Pike County massacre timeline: Gruesome case marks 10th anniversary (kentucky.com) — The Pike County massacre timeline revisits a decade of investigations, trials, and appeals surrounding the 2016 killings of eight people in southern Ohio. For McDermott residents, it notes that Chris and Dana Rhoden and their children were laid to rest at Scioto Burial Park in town, and explains how the final accused killer, Billy Wagner, is now headed toward a 2027 trial.
   

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Thursday October 1
• VHS Boys Soccer @ Peebles
  Valley Middle School Lucasville, OH 45648
  4:30 pm
• VHS Girls Soccer @ Minford
  Valley Elementary Lucasville, OH 45648
  5:00 pm
• HS Volleyball vs Clay
  Glenwood High School
  5:30 pm
• SOCCER @ Western
  Clay Local Portsmouth, OH 45662
  5:30 pm
• Varsity Soccer - Home - Ironton
  Portsmouth City Schools, 1225 Gallia St, Portsmouth
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• Soccer vs St Joe
  Glenwood High School
  7:00 pm
• Junior High Football - Home - Chesapeake
  Portsmouth City Schools, 1225 Gallia St, Portsmouth
  7:00 pm
• Varsity Volleyball - Home - Ironton
  Portsmouth City Schools, 1225 Gallia St, Portsmouth
  8:00 pm
Friday October 2
• JH Quiz Bowl Scrimmage @ Portsmouth
  Portsmouth MS
• VHS Football @ Portsmouth West
  Valley Elementary Lucasville, OH 45648
  7:00 pm
• BAND - Portsmouth West Football Game Performance
  Clay Local Portsmouth, OH 45662
  7:00 pm

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What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Aramark Corporation posted a job opening for Food Service Worker - Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. Apply here.
• Family Dollar posted a job opening for Assistant Manager I in Lucasville. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near McDermott here.

🗞 Nearby News

Lucasville

• Janet Louise Bennett (sciotovalleyguardian.com)
• Carla Sue Carter, 70, of New Boston (sciotocountydailynews.com)

Portsmouth

• Free breast cancer screening set for Oct. 15 in Portsmouth (sciotovalleyguardian.com)
• Busted! 09/30/26 New Arrests in Portsmouth, Ohio (sciotocountydailynews.com)
• Scioto County shelter takes in 18 dogs in abuse, hoarding case (sciotovalleyguardian.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A waist of time. (Thank you Martin L. for sending it in!)
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