Jacksontown News

LICKING TOWNSHIP -- A routine traffic stop on Interstate 70 eastbound Sunday afternoon led to a scuffle and a short chase.

As country music twanged away on the colorful website for Clark's Dining Room, I scanned over these cheatin' and done-me-wrong words of farewell: "The very labor-intensive end products that are provided by Clark's have become obsolete." It was enough to make a grown chowhound cry.

JACKSONTOWN -- All three people who were taken to Licking Memorial Hospital on Monday after a four-car crash on Interstate 70 just east of Ohio 13 have been released from the hospital.

JACKSONTOWN -- Ohio 93, just south of Crooksville, will be closed today to perform a bridge deck pour as part of an ongoing project.

Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Mavis and other city officials got an upclose look at industry in the Mount Vernon area this week.

JACKSONTOWN -- Work to repair multiple culverts on Ohio 284 will begin Tuesday. The route will be closed from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The Lakewood Drama Department is proud to announce its 2009-10 season. Mark your calendar.

Minus: New statistics released by the FBI showed violent crimes on the rise in 2008 in Newark and Licking County.

Clark's Dining Room, a comfort-food destination in central Ohio for decades, will close this fall.

JACKSONTOWN -- As the morning dew coats the newly installed steel roof at Linnwood Baptist Church, an 80-year-old volunteer worker from the Buckeye Baptist Builders walks gingerly on the crest of the building.

Congratulations to the students that made the college bands this year. I have heard that Michael Scheidegger and Josh Powell will be in the Ohio University Band and Meg Gulick, Rebekah Robison and Kyle West made the Ohio State Marching Band.

JACKSONTOWN -- Two separate crashes on Interstate 70 and an additional crash on Mill Dam Road sent two people to the hospital and tied up traffic for almost an hour Friday afternoon.

JACKSONTOWN - A six-car crash has been reported on Interstate 70, with at least one of the vehicles a semi, and a person may have been trapped in a vehicle.

It's almost time for Lancer Band doughnuts at the Millersport Sweet Corn Festival.

JACKSONTOWN -- The Ohio Department of Transportation will be replacing culverts on Ohio 204 between Ohio 310 and Ohio 158.

Sept. 2 is right on the tip of the calendar, so remember to plan on attending the Millersport Sweet Corn Festival and support the local groups there.

JACKSONTOWN -- The Ohio Department of Transportation crews will begin work on Interstate 70 in Zanesville on Aug.

JACKSONTOWN -- The Ohio Department of Transportation crews will begin work on Interstate 70 in Zanesville on Aug.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:01 AM Eric Brown WCLT news is looking into whether human resources changes at ODOT District 5are being made after several black eyes over the past several years.

JACKSONTOWN - Hudson Avenue, north from the Ohio 16 underpass, will be closed from 9 p.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday, according to a press release from the Ohio Department of Transportation.