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Losing a friend that was so close to you is tough. Real tough.

As RiverRatRay mentioned on http://www.irontonfootball.com, I am writing another lengthy article to place online. The article will focus on George McAfee. I am seeking input from any person that would have been a student or faculty member at Ironton High in the fall of 1966. I have a great quote alr...

Video- interview with the young woman that fought off her attackers.

http://www.wmbfnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=12864913

More on this story- including a composite of a suspect.

http://www2.scnow.com/scp/news/local/gr ... ng/231986/

Daylight attempt on South Ocean Boulevard by three males in a van...

http://www.thesunnews.com/2010/07/24/16 ... -lead.html

Pembroke: Jermon Jackson, a two-time first-team DIII All-Ohio RB, rushed for 1,849 yards and scored 29 TDs his senior year to earn the Ohio DIII back of the year. Jermon's performance his senior year resulted in USA Today naming him an honorable-mention prep All-American. During his career at Ironto...

Charlton "Shorty" Davies (IHS 1917)- Ohio State and Ironton Tanks . Premier player at IHS before the McAfee family arrived in town. George 'Lefty' McAfee's brothers were all outstanding athletes. Wes McAfee (played in backfield with George at Duke and later played in the NFL with Philadelp...

http://highschoolsports.cleveland.com/n ... 2-to-2015/

I think Stark County will be enjoying its final two years hosting the event. Once Tressel and OSU get it for two years, I can't see it leaving.

http://dailyindependent.com/local/x1703 ... rrel/print

Cracker Barrel would be a huge catch. With 33,000 cars going by the proposed site each day, I think it has a real shot of taking place.

Great times at the Ironton Regatta. Major concerts, boat races, good food- simply a great annual event. Sadly, the area simply became too poor to support such a major community event. James Waldo and Wally Christian performing their classic song down in Destin... m http://www.thebeachcomber.org/imag...

m Dear Cleveland, all of Northeast Ohio and Cleveland Cavaliers supporters wherever you may be tonight; As you now know, our former hero, who grew up in the very region that he deserted this evening, is no longer a Cleveland Cavalier. This was announced with a several-day, narcissistic, self-promoti...

Bacon's petition is also mentioned on NBC Sports.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/20 ... /#comments

The Ironton Tribune had an article about Bacon's petition in Sunday's edition.

http://www.irontontribune.com/news/2010 ... hall-fame/

Thanks kantucky for that highly informative link. I deleted the flash cookies being stored, but I did not disable the storage of flash cookies.

I will probably just keep that link in my favorites and clean out the flash cookies every day or so.

Again....great info!

Nice story...

http://www.irontontribune.com/news/2010 ... hing-area/

Tim does so much in the community. I don't think the average fan has a clue how much work this man puts in at the high school.

From this Ironton household...

Thank you Tim!

Thanks kantucky. I figured it was something like that.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/coybaconforthehall/

Where did you get that info about two bucks caglewis?

The Coy Bacon hall of fame petition link should be...

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/coyb ... signatures

By the way, I have no clue how this story made the newspaper today.

A big thank you goes out to the responsible party!

m Ironton's Bacon backed for induction June 10, 2010 @ 12:00 AM The Herald-Dispatch IRONTON -- A movement is under way to get legendary Coy Bacon into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Bacon, who died in 2008 in Ironton at the age of 66, was an Ironton High School product who began his professional car...