Kirkersville News

The Licking County Humane Society received 399 complaints and confiscated 92 pets in 2012, according to numbers released by the organization this week.

Nine retirements and the transfer of 18 employees from one position to another has aided the Southwest Licking School District's effort to trim $2 million from spending over the next two years without laying off personnel.

The cost of adding a two-classroom modular unit to Etna Elementary School this fall will be higher than anticipated, Southwest Licking Board of Education members learned Thursday night.

For the first time in some 15 years, next fall, classrooms at Watkins Middle School will be air-conditioned. The Southwest Licking Board of Education Friday morning approved bids for mechanical work to update energy management systems at the middle and high schools, including installation of units at the middle school for air conditioning, ... (more)