Hallsville News

WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE OF ROSS COUNTY: 7 p.m. Weight Loss Challenge Headquarters, 577 Golf View Dr.

BOOGIE ON THE BLACKTOP: 7 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Elks Lodge and Club, east parking lot, 42 W. Second St.

“This is your first milestone, but not your last”

Senior year at Pickaway Ross Career and Technology Center always begins the same for students in the electrical and carpentry trade programs - build a house by year's end. via Chillicothe Gazette

“It's a huge moneymaking business”

High-profile arrests in southwestern Licking County have sparked local officials to call for regional cooperation in combating drug trafficking and abuse. via Central Ohio

“She got upset, took a couple sugar pills (and) she collapsed to the floor”

DARBYVILLE, Ohio - Authorities were searching for a woman who disappeared from her home on Wednesday night. via News Journal

“We needed to get the job done both offensively and defensively”

Freshman Julia Burton's debut as a starting pitcher for the Pleasant Lady Spartans was a little rocky at the beginning. via Marion Star

County Engineer Doug Davis has more than 21 miles of road paving planned for this summer, as well as more ditching and chip-seal projects. via Central Ohio

Heath High School After Prom is selling gift cards to pay for after-prom expenses. via The Advocate

“We try to keep as much as possible on the first two floors”

A couple hundred dollars is all the Licking County Historical Society normally budgets for collections care, Sherwood-Davidson House curator Emily Larson said. via Central Ohio

“Sometimes during the week we have four events. Usually the events are nonprofits and civil groups that comes to the fairgrounds to do fundraisers.”

LANCASTER - Ferris wheels and roller coaster rides are something everyone sees at the Fairfield County Fairgrounds every year. via LancasterEagleGazette

“When he hears about Marion, he's going to think of things like this. This is a great sales pitch for us and the state.”

The man wearing the orange hard hat and yellow safety vest spread his hands apart as he walked toward the large piece of intermodal loading equipment. via Marion Star

“They're starting little fires in there and they think it's fun”

MARION - With the economy slowing and foreclosure rates up, Ohio is seeing its fair share of abandoned homes and vacant properties. via Marion Star

“The entertainment music business is getting huge”

The head of an Ohio record label is hoping to give local musicians a new experience as he comes to town looking for talent on Saturday. via Marion Star

“What's different about this one is it's much larger. It's 80 percent of the size of the one in Washington and naturally, it honors those that died in the Vietnam War”

For one weekend in the fall Zanesville will have an American Veterans' Traveling Tribute wall on display. via Central Ohio

“The economy the way it is these things aren't going to be generating money as fast as people thought a year or two ago.”

A proposed road to connect Ohio 95 and Ohio 309 would likely help ease traffic in the area where officials plan to erect a pedestrian bridge over safety concerns of students walking to Marion Harding High ... via Central Ohio

“That's a huge amount of revenue in this district”

Teachers vote no raises, want input on staffing cuts crisis they are in," Beaver said on Friday. via Central Ohio

The need for organ donors will be highlighted during the "Walk of Hope" being hosted by "Lifeline of Ohio" April 19th in Chillicothe. via WCHI-AM Chillicothe

A local man will serve nearly eight years in prison after being convicted of drug trafficking offenses. via Marion Star

“I think it's great that they caught somebody”

A man arrested for stealing vases from grave markers in two rural cemeteries received $27.30 for items he took to a local recycling business, the business's general manager said. via Central Ohio

ST. LOUISVILLE -- A scrapbooking event to benefit 4-H Camp Ohio is planned for April 19-20. Spring Crop will be a chance for scrappers to come together to share the hobby. via The Advocate