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...decision comes four years after the water started flowing in Coal Run, a black community of some 25 homes in overwhelmingly white Muskingum County, following a lawsuit filed by the Ohio Civil Rights Commission (OCRC) and 67 Coal Run residents. According to the suit, the community had repeatedly requested water service since 1956, the year the city built a water main that ended just short of the neighborhood, and had watched as the East Muskingum Water Authority built new water lines and increased county water efforts in surrounding areas while their requests went unanswered. When he built his house...
...discrimination and say Coal Run's lack of water was due to a lack of demand. The neighborhood went without water for so long, they argue, mainly because its residents didn't go through the correct procedures to request it. According to Mark Landes, a Columbus attorney representing Muskingum County, the only official water requests from Coal Run residents came in the form of a 1973 petition and 2001 public hearing. "No one ever showed up and asked for water," he says, adding that a large part of Muskingum County still doesn't have running water today. Hairston agrees that...
...months after the OCRC issued its report alleging racial discrimination, Muskingum County decided that the residents of Coal Run finally qualified for water. By January 2004, the last pipelines were laid, but the discrimination trial was already in motion. Resident after resident testified about years of personal conversations held with city and county officials who did nothing to keep their promises to help. Kennedy, Hairston and two other residents stated that in 2001, Muskingum County Commissioner Dorothy Montgomery told them that even their "grandchildren's grandchildren would not have water." Montgomery could not be reached, but Landes says she denies...
...sanguine about the case's result. "This is a bad day for taxpayers and a bad day for race relations," he says. He believes the plaintiffs sued solely for the money and blames "out-of-state lawyers" for coming in and whipping up a "frenzy" that the residents of Muskingum County will now have to fund. Attorneys for the city and county say they plan to appeal...
...send meat loaves to strangers who've had a death in the family. It's also a place where people hang signs on their porches that read, THIS HOME PROTECTED BY SHOTGUNS THREE NIGHTS A WEEK. WANT TO GUESS WHICH NIGHTS? Nestled at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, Marietta is a pretty town that never quite made it to beautiful. Its long history, exhaustively documented on sidewalk plaques, features Indian burial grounds and gilded steamboats. It has one train museum and two drive-through beer stores, but only 14,500 people and not a single Starbucks...