🌱 Which Gallipolis-area softball stars just made all-district honors?

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• Which Gallipolis-area softball stars just made all-district honors?

Also on today's calendar: French Art Colony’s Hot Summer Nights.

Today's riddle: What do sweet potatoes wear to bed? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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• Friday: Heavy midday thunderstorms, with a high of 85 and low of 59 degrees.
• Saturday: Mostly sunny and less humid, temps: high: 85, low: 65.
• Sunday: A stray t-storm; not as warm, with a high of 77 and low of 55 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Ohio River Cities get 21 on all-district softball teams (wvnews.com) — Gallipolis-area softball fans have plenty to cheer about, with Gallia Academy, River Valley, South Gallia, and nearby Meigs, Eastern, and Southern combining for 21 players on the Southeast District All-District teams. Local standouts earned first- and second-team honors plus honorable mentions across Divisions IV, V, and VII, highlighting the strength of southeastern Ohio softball.
   

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What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• To anyone in our neighborhood who may be missing a white kitty cat, we just found it lying dead in the road under the 35 overpass on Bulaville Pike.
  My husband decided to get it so it doesn’t get hit again and we are burying this sweet kitty in our yard. If this precious fur baby belongs to you,… (Nextdoor Highland-Bittersweet)

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🗞 Nearby News

Rio Grande

• Tobiska sets new school record at Dillard Twilight (wvnews.com)

Jackson

• Jackson Council Approves 2026 Budget With No Municipal Tax Increase (thelakewoodscoop.com)
• Vikings' volleyball standout to take her game to next level at Otterbein (thetelegramnews.com)

Ironton

• Stitching love (irontontribune.com)
• PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (sec.gov)
• Three Lawrence projects in Capital Budget Bill (irontontribune.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Yammies! (Thank you Lynda S. for sending it in!)
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