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LISBON The county port authority and seven other local public agencies are in line to receive a combined $900,000 in funding that has been included in the state capital budget expected to be approved today by the state legislature.
The recipients and the amounts are: Port authority, $400,000 for improvements to the port authority’s Cherry Fork manufacturing complex in Leetonia. County park district, $200,000 for extending the Little Beaver Creek Greenway Trail east from East Lincoln Way in Lisbon to near the BP station. Lisbon, $100,0000 to go toward replacing the bridge at Willow Grove Park that was washed away in the 2004 flash flood. This would connect the park to the Greenway bicycle trail on the other side of the Little Beaver Creek.
FRED MILLER
Scratch an Adkins from around East Liverpool (and there are quite a few) and you’ll probably find at least a second-hand connection to Chuck Yeager, legendary pilot, World War II ace and first man to fly faster than sound.
Brigadier Gen. Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager, a favorite son of West Virginia and a native of Hamlin, the county seat of Lincoln County, died Dec. 7 at the age of 97.
My mother Lucille was an Adkins from Hamlin. She was born in 1918, so was four and a half years older than Yeager.
Her younger brother Louis Sweetland Adkins, however, the same age as Yeager and was in his graduating class at Hamlin High School. I never met Chuck Yeager, but I think he and my Uncle Lou were a lot alike: direct can-do men, born storytellers, with a sardonic sense of humor and always active, never still. Lou’s siblings called him Sweetland, and I used that name for him when I wrote about him in this column back in the ’90s. Retired, long divorced and restless, Uncl