Life shouldn't be all work and no play...Tuesday morning, 45 seniors from Maysville High School took a break from classes to clean Kidzville, the playground at Riverside Park. The students are involved in the Service Learning and J.O.G. (Jobs for Ohio Graduates) Programs. These programs allow high school students to job shadow professionals, and find out about different careers. The purpose of this morning was for the students to perform one last service project before they graduate. The...
Two local teenagers are dead after a case of wreckless driving in Licking county. And State Troopers are saying that alcohol and speed are the main factors in that fatal crash. According to the Granville Post of the State Highway Patrol, at around 10:30 Monday night, a 1994 Geo Tracker, driven by 19-year-old Phillip Carter of Newark, and another vehicle were driven wrecklessly on Bolin road in Licking county. The patrol says the Tracker lost control, went off the left side of the road, hit a...
Zanesville City Council met in regular session Monday night and passed two important issues. The first issue, Port-a-potties. The city will use them for special events. The Port-o-Let facility will have running water, sanitary features and it will be able to handle 140 women and 350 men per hour. Another issue that was addressed at the meeting...the state route 146-60 connector road. It was also passed by council. The road will be designed as a five-lane highway and will help development...
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources announced today that more than one hundred and eighty thousand dollars in grants will be disbursed to local recycling centers. The grants are part of a statewide project aimed at improving efficiency at local recycling facilities. The Muskingum County Chamber of Commerce will match the grant by 50 percent to help the Muskingum Community Recycling Center. Muskingum County recieved approximately 35 thousand dollars, while Perry, Coshocton, Fairfield, and...
Over one hundred residents of Gaysport will be benefiting from a 1.2 million dollar loan to help with new water lines. The Gaysport water project will help rural residents to be up-dated with water lines. The need for the water lines are demanding, because it's about five miles between residents. The loan was guaranteed with a low 1.5% fixed interest rate. The rate was made possible through the Ohio Water Development Authority and the Muskingum County Chamber of Commerce.
The Cambridge Fire department is investigating an early morning fatal fire. It happened at 613 Grant avenue just after 5:30 this morning. Fire investigators found the victim in the kitchen. He is identified as 38-year-old Lonnie Vandyne. Guernsey county officials think Vandyne may have died from smoke inhalation. One fire fighter was slightly injured in the fire.
A local woman was killed in a weekend accident in Muskingum county. It happened early Sunday morning. The Zanesville post of the State Highway Patrol says that 32-year-old Annette Garnes of Spangler drive in Zanesville was driving north on Culter Lake Road near Blue Rock State Park, when she drove off the right side of the road and struck a tree. Troopers says she wasn't wearing a seat belt and was pronounced dead at the scene by the cororner. It has not been determined what caused the...
A man from the Ukraine is accused of assaulting a State Highway Patrol Trooper. Eduard Ryumshin is charged with felonious assault, tampering with government documents, forgery, possession of criminal tools and resisting arrest. His arraignment is set for Monday in Canton Municipal court. He was arrested after driving on Interstate 77 in Guernsey county shortly after an attack Friday in a driver's license station in Canton. The patrol said the 34-year-old Ryumshin, of Kiev, matched the...
A saturday car crash kills one young woman and puts her passenger in intensive care.Twenty-four year-old Valerie Stevenson of Perry County was killed early saturday morning after she entered an intersection where the traffic lights were not working and collided with a pick-up truck. Her passenger 22 year-old Thomas Bayer of Heath is in the intensive care unit at Grant Memorial Center in Columbus. The managers of the Red Lobster in Heath where both Stevenson and Bayer worked expressed his...
To honor their mother on Mother's Day, two daughters left their mother bedazzled when she pulled into her driveway today. Missy O'Connell and her sister Nikki wanted to play a practical joke on their historically-known jokster of a mom, Barb Allen. Barb's daughters placed close to thirty plastic pink flamingos, pink silly string, and a huge "Happy Mother's Day sign all over the yard. The girls kept the secret from their mother for two weeks. They even contacted other family members to let them...
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