Pataskala News

Brad Schneider has been a consistent top-20 finisher in the Granville Firecracker Five footrace and the Granville Turkey Trot in recent years.

Friday, July 3, 2009 9:54 AM Leslie Gaber, WCLT News Intern A nonprofit group in Pataskala hopes to raise enough money to continue its renovation of the Town Hall.

A nonprofit group continues to work to restore Pataskala's aging Town Hall. "We have got a core group of people who are working to restore it," said Pataskala attorney Connie Klema, a member of the group.

PATASKALA -- Residents might not realize it, but Pataskala has an old opera house, said a local author who thinks it is worth preserving.

ETNA -- An appeals court has upheld a decision by the Etna Township Board of Zoning Appeals denying a proposed access road to the Pataskala Banking Co.'s branch on Ohio 310.

Pataskala officials are warning that the city could be reduced to a part-time police department if voters don't approve additional funding this year.

Friday, June 26, 2009 12:18 PM Glenn Forbes Bubb on Job Ready Site Click here to see a video related to this story.

NEWARK -- Three area students will receive $1,000 scholarships from Fiberglas Federal Credit Union.

PATASKALA - Longtime Licking Heights High School Principal Steve Hackett is leaving the district to take a job elsewhere.

NEWARK - Bond was set at $1 million for a Licking County man accused of plotting to kill his estranged wife and himself.

COLUMBUS - A 4-year-old boy is in poor condition at a Columbus hospital the morning after an ATV crash in Pataskala, a Children's Hospital spokeswoman said.

PATASKALA - The city now has a revitalization plan, but officials want to gather more public input on it.

JERSEY TOWNSHIP -- A Pataskala man was taken to a Columbus hospital after he apparently lost control of his motorcycle coming around a bend in the road, according to the Ohio Highway Patrol.

PATASKALA - More than 320 volunteers helped clean, fix, paint and tote in cities throughout Licking County on Friday afternoon during the local United Way's 15th annual Day of Caring.

Funeral services for Roy E. Byrum, 61, of Summit Station, will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the Frazeysburg Chapel of Vensil-Orr & Chute Funeral Home, 110 Third St.

A tense police situation put an already strapped force to the test over the weekend.

Monday, June 15, 2009 5:08 PM WCLT News Staff A Pataskala man accused of plotting a murder-suicide, or suicide by cop, appeared in Licking Municipal Court Monday.

PATASKALA -- A 38-year-old man could face charges of felonious assault, kidnapping, burglary and violation of a protection order after a Saturday incident with his estranged wife in Pataskala.

LUNDGREN, Helen M. Legros, 81, of Wintersville, died Thursday, June 11, 2009, at Trinity West.

PATASKALA -- A state grant is allowing the city to install new storm sewers downtown.