TABLERTOWN, Ohio (WOUB) – David Butcher works full time, and when he isn’t at work, he’s at the Tablertown People of Color ...

A press release from the city engineering department described the closure as a precautionary measure that will remain in place until the Ohio Department ... a portion of the mine with concrete.

This community of about 1,000 was doomed when a garbage fire ignited abandoned coal mines that ran right under the town. Despite every effort to extinguish it, the fire has been burning since 1962.