Feeling a little green? With the dream of cold hard cash, many Ohioans are getting lotto fever. It’s only Monday but the sickness has already started. Wednesday’s 56 million dollar super lotto jackpot is the biggest ever. Retailers are expecting long lines. The cash payout is around 24 million dollars. Everyone has their dreams of what they are going to do with all that money.
A sign that the local economy is picking up, sales at Colony Square Mall in Zanesville have increased 20 percent. Those figures, from February, are a total of all mall shop sales. Some of the increase is attributed to the addition of Dunham’s and Old Navy. Several veteran retailers had impressive increases: Zanesville Chiropractic, Shoe Sensation and Vitamin World are among those stores. Not only have sales increased, but the number of shoppers have gone up. The food court is getting a new...
County employees could see some added benefits to their health care plans in the next couple of months. Monday the Muskingum County Commissioners reviewed the health care plans for over 8-hundred of their employees. The health care plans should be finalized by June.
Rufus Putnam Elementary School children learned a lesson in pottery Monday from the oldest acting pottery maker in the world. Fred Beane from North Carolina has been in the pottery business since he was ten, now sixty-nine years later he is still going strong. Students were able to watch Beane make different sculptures, as well as ask questions.
A record-high Super Lotto jackpot of 56-million dollars will be up for grabs Wednesday after no tickets matched the winning combination Saturday night. The previous record jackpot was 54-million dolars last July 11th. There was one big winner in the Kicker game Saturday night, with a ticket sold in Mansfield worth 100-thouand dollars.
It was a sweet 16 celebration for the board members and staff of the Alfred S. Carr Center as they hosted their own open house was used to kick-off the center's annual cake auction fundraiser. Visitors also had a chance to view the recent renovations completed on the audlt day care area. The expanded adult daycare program area was dedicated to the Littick family for their years of loyalty to the center and its mission to help the disabled. A gesture that the Littick family says is humbly...
The Maysville City School District dedicated their newest addition to their educational system. In a ribbon cutting ceremony earlier this afternoon, the Maysville Board Of Education, administration and staff invited the public to an official dedication of the newly built elementary school. Grades preschool through 5 are house in the new elementary school and it has been operational since the beginning of this year. And according to administrators, students, and parents, it seems that...
College students and the New Concord community hit the pavement to take one step closer to the cure for cancer. Earlier today, a group of Muskingum College students hosted a 5K run-walk for cancer research. The fundraiser event was held in honor of cancer survivor and Muskingum College Alumni Director Ron Mazeroski. The seven students who organized the event were pleased with the number of people who came out to participate. Also the American Cancer Society has been guiding the group in...
The Perry-Hocking Educational Service Center recently voted to shut down the Perry County Learning Center. Superintendent Dale Dickson says a lack of appropriate funding to support the alternative school is the reason. He says after the Ohio General Assembly transferred 300-million dollars in "temporary assistance to needy family federal funds" from the state jobs and family service department to the state general fund, it sealed the fate of this and other quality programs around the state....
A novelist, actress, writer and professor came to speak at OU-Z on Thursday. Denise Chavez came from New Mexico to spend some time with the college students and present one of her novels, Loving Pedro Infante. It is about the Mexican film star Pedro Infante who died in a plane crash in 1957 and she also signed the books after her lecture. She will finish up her visit in Ohio next week after she makes an appearance at Oberlin College.
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