Guernsey County News

Bill Shepard met with Guernsey County commissioners Monday to address an issue with a U.S. 40 property that resulted from the installation of a new 16-inch waterline from just east of Cambridge to Old Washington.

Dan Mallett of the Cambridge street department, piles salt inside the city's salt barn Monday morning.

The Cambridge-Guernsey County Health Department has announced that two non-hospitalized residents have tested positive for H1N1 through an independent lab.

Cambridge voters approved a 1/2 of 1 percent income tax increase Tuesday. "Make no bones about it," said Mayor Tom Orr, "we ducked a big missile." Revenues from the increase will be split, by law, between the city's police and fire department; 75 percent for the former and 25 percent for the latter.

CHICAGO The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency , in partnership with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources , will host a flood risk information open house for Guernsey County on Monday, Nov.

Sandra Miller, r, director Guernsey County Board of Elections, and Lori Bamfield, deputy director, look at one of the 140 electronic voting machines that will be going out to the 25 polling stations in the county Tuesday.

"The dog is a guardian angel!" said Theresa Yingling about Buddy, the yellow lab her family adopted recently from the Guernsey County Dog Shelter, that saved her family not once, but twice, from danger one night last month.

COLUMBUS - Franklin and Scioto counties had the most driving under suspension arrests over the past three years according to new statistics recently released by the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

COSHOCTON - It took a jury two hours to find John Workman, 42, of Dewey Avenue, Cambridge, guilty on two of the felony counts for which he was indicted in April.

Fred R. Jennings, 80, of state Route 517 died at 2:10 p.m. Monday at Salem Community Hospital.

"How will I know if I have the flu this season?" Individuals may have the flu if they have one or more of the following symptoms -- fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills, fatigue and sometimes, diarrhea and vomiting.

The Cambridge Guernsey County Health Department will host a series of H1N1 public information meetings for parents of children attending the three school districts in Guernsey County.

The newly formed Guernsey County Transportation Improvement District will help bring additional grant dollars to the area, according to Administrative Director Norm Blanchard.

CAMBRIDGE -- The Foundation for Appalachian Ohio announced the recent establishment of a new fund within the Guernsey County Family of Funds, the Southeastern Med-Guernsey Health Foundation Fund.

Cleanup work is nearly done at the Old City Cemetery. Perimeter fencing installation is completed, several loads of trimmings were hauled away and nearly all toppled grave markers have been erected, Cemetery Department Foreman James Green told Cambridge City Council Tuesday.

Guernsey County commissioners have acknowledged receiving criticism for their recent decision to ban the adoption, rescue and/or fostering for pit bulls and pit bull mix breeds.

John W. and Edna McManus Shepard Fund and Cambridge Foundation has awarded eight grants totaling $18,274 to organizations serving Cambridge and Guernsey County including, l to r, Laura Schumann, Southeastern Ohio Symphony Orchestra; Michelle Carpenter, Haven of Hope; John Kunkel, Southeastern Ohio Symphony Orchestra; Bob Oess, Cambridge-Guernsey ...

Mostly sunny today with highs in the mid 50s. Mostly cloudy tonight. Lows in the mid 30s.

Two men were arrested by Guernsey County sheriff's deputies Wednesday night after allegedly trying to break into an opulent Georgetown Road residence that is reportedly owned by the Nicolozakes family.

CUMBERLAND -- With the goal of introducing and sharing the Methodist faith with what is now the Southwestern tip of Guernsey County, several circuit rider preachers made their way to Cumberland in 1809.