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25 Years Ago - July 6, 1999Butler city employee John Hamilton was attempting to change a 150-pound chlorine cylinder at the Butler Water Plant on June 30 when a valve on the cylinder broke, creating a leak. The leak forced an evacuation of 30 to 50 people in the area of the Mill Street operation.

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25 Years Ago - June 29, 1999Pendleton County Fiscal Court agreed to allow the Pendleton County Ambulance Service to purchase a new ambulance in the next fiscal year.Ambulance Administrator Phillip Hart appeared before the court to see what type of ambulance to put out bid specs on.

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25 Years Ago - June 22, 1999About 30 mailboxes were damaged or destroyed during a vandalism spree over the past several weeks. Most of the vandalism has occurred along Route 159, Lenoxburg Road, Loop Road and Oak Hill Road, according to Deputy Sheriff Todd Dennie.

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25 Years Ago - June 15, 1999Pendleton County Fiscal Court scrapped its plans to construct a 75-bed jail, and voted June 9 to build a 30-bed jail instead.Jim Roseberry made the motion for the county to build a 30-bed jail with capabilities of enhancement, if possible, as needed.

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25 Years Ago - June 8, 1999At a special school board meeting June 2, bids were approved for additional classrooms, gym and track at Phillip A. Sharp Middle School.The board originally opened bids a month earlier and rejected them as too high.

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25 Years Ago - June 1, 1999The Pendleton County Fiscal Court voted 6-3 on May 27 to close a portion of the Lock Road connector.Magistrate Bill Klaber said the county bends over backward to get new industry into the county. The request to close the connector came from an existing business.

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25 Years Ago - May 25, 1999Pendleton County Schools athletic director Tom Woofter and tennis coach Tom Appleman proposed to the school board that all middle school and high school students invovled in any school sport be required to submit to a mandatory drug and alcohol testing before being...

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25 Years Ago - May 18, 1999Pendleton County Judge Henry Bertram provided Falmouth City Council with a draft of an interlocal government agreement to create a countywide emergency operations center, which would include an enhanced 911 system for Pendleton County.

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25 Years Ago - May 11, 1999Bids for an addition to Sharp Middle School were discussed at a special board meeting May 7.The construction project will add nine classrooms, a gymnasium and a multi-purpose outdoor sports field.Estimated cost of the project was set at $2.67 million.

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25 Years Ago - May 4, 1999Several members of the community, members of the Pendleton Fiscal Court, Butler City Council, Pendleton Industrial Authority, Chamber of Commerce, and family and friends of Medialog Inc. gathered April 29 at the Menzie Bottoms location for a groundbreaking.