Columbia Gas of Ohio is moving forward with its automated meter reading (AMR) system installation program, which includes some work in the Hinckley area. Work in Hinckley will begin in mid-October. It is expected to be completed by mid-November 2010. For more information click on the pdf attachment provided.

Al Deka was born August 17th, 1929 in Cold Brook Twp in Ashtabula County. He was the third youngest of seven boys and two girls. Raised on a dairy farm during the Great Depression, attending a very modest one room school for the first two years. Al’s father and some of the brothers left to earn money for the family in Cleveland. Al’s mother stayed in Cold Brook to continue to tend to the farm and raise the rest of the family. In 1939, Al’s mom decided the farm was too much to handle and moved to Cleveland - joining the rest of the family in a Slavic village...