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Volunteers restore Dante cemetery

Sandra ClarkMay 25, 2020Our Town Stories, Powell

(Editor’s Note: This story ran during our first year, Oct. 3, 2017, and was written by Shannon Carey.)

Volunteers and students are working to pull an abandoned cemetery back from the …

Weaks Cemetery receives national recognition

Shannon CareyApril 27, 2018Feature, Fountain City, Halls, Powell

The efforts to restore an abandoned African-American cemetery in the Dante community have been recognized by the Association for Gravestone Studies. The association gave Central High School’s HOSA students and Dante …

Update: Local businesses boost Weaks Cemetery

Shannon CareyDecember 15, 2017Fountain City, Powell

Two months ago, we reported on an effort to restore an abandoned African-American cemetery in the Dante community near Powell. Central High School health sciences teacher Chris Hammond contacted us …

Volunteers, students restore abandoned cemetery

Shannon CareyOctober 3, 2017Fountain City, Halls, Powell

Volunteers and students are working to pull an abandoned cemetery back from the brink. Weaks Cemetery, an African-American cemetery dating back to at least 1907, was overgrown and used as …

Teachers reach across years in search for ‘Frankie’ Housley

Shannon CareyJune 9, 2017Fountain City

It’s a story to pierce your soul.
In January 1951, a National Airlines flight crashed and caught fire at a Philadelphia airport. As flames engulfed the wreckage, a flight attendant, Fountain …

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