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🌱 South Point family keeps searching for Robert Fox
South Point, Ohio Patch AM: a 4 min readGood morning South Point! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- South Point family keeps searching for Robert Fox
- South Point's Laura Hamm heads to nationals with Rio Grande
- Prison sentence follows unregistered move to South Point
Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Wednesday: Intervals of clouds and sun, with a high of 70 and low of 50 degrees.
- Thursday: Cooler with showers, temps: high: 54, low: 39.
- Friday: Cloudy with a few showers, with a high of 44 and low of 33 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Robert Fox left his house to run an errand and never returned. Seven months later, his wife of 25 years is still searching for answers (newsbreak.com) — South Point resident Robert Fox remains missing more than seven months after leaving home for an errand March 19. His wife, Letitia, continues searching as Lawrence County investigators await forensic results from his phone. No suspects have been named, and anyone with information can call 740-532-3525, extension 8. 
• Rio women run to RSC championship (rioredstorm.com) — South Point's Laura Hamm finished fifth as Rio Grande won its second consecutive River States Conference women's cross country championship. The junior completed the 6K course in 23:04 and earned first-team all-conference honors. The team now heads to the NAIA national championship November 20 in Vancouver, Washington.
• Charleston man sentenced to prison for failing to maintain sex offender registration (wchstv.com) — A man who moved to South Point without maintaining his sex offender registration has been sentenced to 14 months in federal prison. Prosecutors say Cory Alan Kinsel, 38, left his registered Charleston shelter address and worked in Ashland. His registration requirement stems from a 2007 sexual assault conviction.
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Drifters Bar & Grill, 205 South 3rd Street, Ironton
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Peddlers Mall - Wheelersburg, Wheelersburg
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South Point Retiree Breakfast →
Frisch's Big Boy of Ironton, Ohio, 301 S 9th St, Ironton
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Darci Lynne →
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Moving into a new place this winter?
Call the electric and gas utilities with your new address and start date. If a meter is already in place, the utility must start service within three… (Nextdoor )
- Vertiv, Inc. posted a job opening for Inventory Coordinator II (10p-6a) in Ironton. Apply here.
- Vertiv Group Corp. posted a job opening for TIG Welder (Solar/Luna) in Ironton. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near South Point here.
🗞 Nearby News
Ironton
- Kathy Kratzenberg (irontontribune.com)
- Robert Paul Slaughter, 73 of Franklin Furnace (sciotocountydailynews.com)
- Fighting Tigers blank, torch Generals in Region 19 quarters (irontontribune.com)
Wheelersburg
- Carolyn Murray, 81 of Wheelersburg (sciotocountydailynews.com)
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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