Bowser, Crabtree

March 24, 2013

Gregory A. Sr. and Mary T. Bowser, of St. Clairsville, announce the engagement of their youngest daughter, Kimberly Marie, to Karl Ramon Crabtree, son of Jenny Baber of Steubenville and Michael Faulkner of Rayland.

The bride-elect is a 2004 graduate of Christian Liberty Academy and a 2011 graduate of Penn Foster Career School with a career diploma in small business management.

Her fiance is a 2005 graduate of Buckeye Local High School and is currently employed with Republic Services in Wheeling as a sanitation engineer/ professional waste truck driver. The couple has a son, Isaac Crabtree.

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Kimberly Marie BowserKarl Ramon Crabtree

An April 6 wedding is planned at St. Mary's Catholic Church in St. Clairsville.Waynesville keeps tight reins on sewer lines in the name of smart growth

Waynesville has once again denied Haywood County’s proposition for extending its sewer lines several miles beyond the town limits toward Balsam along U.S. 23/74.

The county has asked the town to augment its sewer lines near the rest stop a couple of times before, specifically to serve a roadside rest area. But, new sewer lines would also bring the possibility of new and potentially uncontrolled commercial development along that stretch of highway.

The Waynesville Board of Aldermen has rejected the county’s wishes in the name of smart growth, saying that it doesn’t want the corridor to become overwhelmed with sprawl similar Russ Avenue. By limiting sewer access, development remains concentrated in town instead of strung out across the