NOTICE BY PUBLICATION
To: Barbara Walton, address unknown, Wilma Rentz, address unknown, and Darlene Hall-Zehner, last unknown address 1322 W. Cindy St., Chandler, AZ 85224-5240, along with their unknown heirs, devisees, executors, administrators, relicts, next of kin and assigns, if any, whose identities and addresses are also unknown; you are hereby notified that you have been named as a defendant in a legal action entitled John J. Lusk, et al. v. Barbara Walton, et al. This action has been assigned case number 2021-336 and is pending before Judge Julie R. Selmon in the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County, Ohio at 101 North Main Street, Woodsfield, Ohio 43793.
The object of Plaintiffs’ complaint is to obtain a court declaration that the reservation of the mineral rights in the Deed recorded at Monroe County Deed Records Volume 126, Page 521, is no longer valid or legally binding and does not encumber any oil and gas rights to the property identified in the Deed; and to obtain a court order quieting title to said severed mineral interest in the name of the Plaintiffs.
You are required to answer the Complaint within 28 days after the last publication of this notice, which will be published once a week for six successive weeks. The last publication will be made Sept. 1, 2022 and the 28 days for answer will commence on that date.
If you fail to answer or otherwise respond as permitted by the Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure within the time stated, judgment will be entered granting the relief requested in the Complaint.
Dated: July 21, 2022
Respectfully submitted,
ROETZEL & ANDRESS, LPA
Sara E. Fanning (0085160)
sfanning@ralaw.com
41 South High Street
Huntington Center, 21st Floor
Columbus, OH 43215
Telephone: 614.463.9770
David J. Wigham (0059672)
dwigham@ralaw.com
222 South Main Street, Suite 400
Akron, OH 44308
Telephone: 330.376.2700
Attorneys for Plaintiffs
July 28, August 4, 11, 18, 25, September 1, 2022
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Switzerland Township Road TR 2788
The Board of Monroe County Commissioners will meet on Monday, August 22, 2022 at 10 a.m. for a Public Hearing to discuss the Resolution received from the Switzerland Township Trustees to partially vacate township road TR 2788 (767 feet to be vacated, beginning at the Switzerland of Ohio Local School district bus turn-around to the existing terminal point of TR 2788).
The Commissioners will meet for a public hearing at the office of said County Commissioners, 101 N. Main Street, Room 34, Woodsfield, OH at 10 a.m. for all persons whose interests could be affected by said partial vacation of roadway.
By Order of the Monroe County Commissioners
Sheila Turner, Clerk
August 11, 18, 2022
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PUBLIC NOTICE
Bids are being accepted for the following:
B7800 – 1,150 hours on it, 22 Horse power, 6-foot finishing mower included. Front Blade 5ft B2765 and has a LA204 front bucket.
Sealed bids are being accepted. Please mail or drop off your bids to the Village of Beallsville, PO Box E, 43057 Ohio Avenue, Beallsville, OH 43716. All bids are due September 30, 2022 @ Noon. We reserve the right to reject all bids.
August 18, 25, September 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022
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LEGAL NOTICE
OHIO DEPARTMENT OF
NATURAL RESOURCES
DIVISION OF OIL AND GAS
RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
RE: APPLICATION FOR UNITIZATION
MILLER C UNIT
MONROE COUNTY, OHIO
NOTICE BY PUBLICATION
Applicant SWN Production (Ohio), LLC (“SWN Ohio”) hereby gives notice that the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management (the “Division”), has scheduled a hearing pursuant to Revised Code Section 1509.28 concerning SWN Ohio’s Miller C Unit to occur on Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. The hearing will be held via video conference, as set forth below. SWN Ohio seeks to obtain an Order for Unit Operation from the Chief of the Division as to the Utica/Point Pleasant Formation covering the Miller C Unit area. This proposed unit area includes lands in Sections 7 and 13, Township 3N, Range 4W, Green Township, Sections 5, 11, and 18, Township 2N, Range 4W, Lee Township, and Sections 5, 6, and 12, Township 2N, Range 4W, and Section 7, Township 3N, Range 4W, Ohio Township, all in Monroe County, Ohio. The surface location for the Miller C Unit will be located in Section 14, Township 3N, Range 4W, Green Township, Monroe County, Ohio, on Parcel No. 09-019012.0000.
Certain tracts in the Miller C Unit area are owned, in whole or in part, by persons for whom no address can be located. These tracts are described below by reference to their parcel numbers and their owners’ names: (1) Parcel Nos. 09-022009.0000 and 09-022003.0000 – Owners: Unknown Heirs or Assigns of Maxine Miller; Unknown Heirs or Assigns of Mary Blackburn Vetter; Unknown Heirs or Assigns of William Wallace Vetter; and Unknown Heirs or Assigns of Elizabeth Lindsay Vetter; and (2) Parcel No. 15-018021.0000 – Owners: Unknown Heirs or Assigns of Ferdinand J. Frieden.
Additionally, a tract in the Miller C Unit area may potentially be owned, in whole or in part, by persons for whom no address can be located. This tract is described below by reference to its parcel number and its possible owners’ names: Parcel No. 09-022013.0000 – Potential Owners: Connie Lee Blackburn and Unknown Heirs or Assigns of Shena L. Lacey.
If you would like to attend this hearing, please go to www.webex.com, click on Join on the top right of the screen and enter the following meeting information:
Meeting number (access code): 2341 469 4363
Meeting password: pJ9CKcgwS36
You do not need to download Webex to join the hearing.
You may also listen to and participate in the hearing by phone by following the instructions detailed below:
1-408-418-9388 United States Toll
Access code: 2341 469 4363
Service by publication shall be complete upon the expiration of four weeks after the date of the first publication of this notice. The date of the first publication of this notice is Thursday, August 18, 2022.
The date of last publication is Thursday, September 8, 2022.
Dated: Thursday, August 18, 2022
Applicant contact information:
SWN Production (Ohio), LLC
Attn: Boston Smith
10000 Energy Drive
Spring, Texas 77389
(832) 796-7846
boston_smith@swn.com
For further information regarding this hearing, including any subsequent changes to the hearing format, please visit the Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management’s website at http://oilandgas.ohiodnr.gov/unitization.
August 18, 25, September 1, 8, 2022
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