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Customers of Athens letter carrier Charles Murray Rose are not only thankful for the good service he has provided over the years, but also for his nose.
As The Messenger has reported previously, Rose is responsible for detecting several natural gas leaks on his east-side mail route, and that’s one reason he is receiving the 2012 Hometown Community Hero award.
“I don’t feel like a hero,” Rose said. “The heroes to me are firemen, policemen and soldiers. I was honored just to be nominated.”
Read more from The Athens Messenger (subscription required, 2/22).
UPDATE: This story was covered again today (2/28) by The Post, and features all four of this year’s Hometown Hero honorees. Read their version here.
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Customers of Athens letter carrier Charles Murray Rose are not only thankful for the good service he has provided over the years, but also for his nose.
As The Messenger has reported previously, Rose is responsible for detecting several natural gas leaks on his east-side mail route, and that’s one reason he is receiving the 2012 Hometown Community Hero award.
“I don’t feel like a hero,” Rose said. “The heroes to me are firemen, policemen and soldiers. I was honored just to be nominated.”
Read more from The Athens Messenger (subscription required).
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Small local post offices nervously monitor federal ‘realignment’
Once the May 15 deadline for a moratorium delaying changes to the United States Postal Service comes, the Postal Service’s annual report explains that “radical realignment” will follow to combat the organization’s projected $18.9 billion deficit for the 2011 fiscal year.
That realignment likely will mean the closure of several small-town post offices in our area, as well as the possible downsizing of operations at the Athens Post Office.
“The delay is designed to enable Congress sufficient time to enact comprehensive postal legislation,” David Van Allen, Ohio USPS media relations spokesman, said of the moratorium in a phone interview late last week.
Read more from The Athens NEWS. | Photo via The Athens NEWS.
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Post offices and processing facilities on a closure list have been given a temporary reprieve.
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown announced today the United States Postal Service agreed to a five-month moratorium on closing the 120 post offices and 10 processing facilities in Ohio.
Processing facilities on the closure list include Athens, Chillicothe and Ironton.
Read more from WOUB or from The Athens Messenger (subscription required).
RELATED: Sen. Sherrod Brown says reprieve is a win for Ohio (Businessweek).
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A decrease in quality of service topped the concerns voiced at a public meeting held Monday to discuss a proposal to remove mail processing from the Athens post office and shift that work to Columbus.
The Athens post office would continue to operate as a retail center for the U.S. Postal Service, according to Cincinnati District Manager Chu Falling Star.
“We are not closing the Athens plant,” Falling Star assured a group of about 20 people Monday night. “We do not see there will be any appreciable impact on customers.”
Read more from The Athens Messenger (subscription required).
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Athens City Roundup for November 10, 2011
Athens County Roundup for November 8, 2011
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