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Municipalities in Muskingum, Perry and Morgan counties receive water grants
COLUMBUS — The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency recently announced $2.2 million in H2Ohio grants for more than 250 communities in 78 counties to help pay for equipment needed to maintain public drinking water distribution systems. The funding will help provide reliable, clean drinking water through investments in drinking water...
Military Road will be restricted daily for utilities project
ZANESVILLE − The City of Zanesville has announced Military Road will restricted to one lane from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily from May 28 to June 7 from Dresden Road to Winding Way for a utilities improvement project. Temporary traffic signals will be used to maintain traffic flow. Delays should be expected and motorists are encouraged to find alternate routes. This article originally appeared on Zanesville Times Recorder: Military Road will be restricted daily for utilities project
Another trip in the Daily News Wayback Machine
LOGAN — From the cobwebbed closet of the Logan Daily’s historic offices: a peek around Hocking County, 50 years ago this week. ”Local Designs Spherical House,” May 20, 1974. “Necessity is the mother of invention is an old cliche that best fits the idea behind the spherical house now under construction on Chieftain Drive,” wrote Logan Daily News correspondent Harold Roach. ...
Four months in advance, city getting all decked out for national symposium
LOGAN — All up and down the sidewalks of Logan’s Main Street on Thursday, gloved people with trowels could be seen hard at work, planting and mulching the many flower beds that line the town’s main thoroughfare. It was all being done in preparation for the 2024 national symposium of the community beautification program America in Bloom (AIB), which will be held in Logan and Columbus. Though the symposium is not until late September, the work on the uptown flower displays is being done now...
Perry County real estate transfers
May 3-16. Listed prices do not necessarily reflect actual property values. • Jerry L. and Jody Johnson, property in Somerset, to Jerry L. and Jody Johnson, exempt, to evidence a gift, in any form, between husband and wife, or parent and child, or the spouse of either. • Danielle Severance, 2.0 acres, section 10, Hopewell Township, to Ronald S. Severance, exempt, to evidence a gift, in any form, between husband...
Three things to know
It’s New Straitsville’s time to shine. This Friday will be the opening day of the 53rd annual New Straitsville Moonshine Festival, celebrating the legacy of the village as the Moonshine Capital of the World during Prohibition. Learn more on page A4. Middle schoolers excel in book knowledge contest. A year-long classroom effort garnered honors for New Lexington Middle School students at a recent competition in Lancaster, called the Battle Over Books (BOB). Learn more on page B3. Stay safe from mosquitoes. Over 200 types of mosquitoes live in the continental United States and U.S. territories; of which about 12 types spread disease. Because you can’t tell which mosquito could be spreading germs, it is important to protect yourself from mosquito bites. See column, page A5.
Governor awards more than $2 million in grants for public drinking water systems
COLUMBUS — On May 16, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and the Ohio EPA announced $2.2 million in H2Ohio grants for more than 250 communities in 78 counties, to help pay for equipment needed to maintain public drinking water distribution systems. These include four grants to Perry County communities. Public water systems were eligible to apply for up to $10,000 through H2Ohio. The grants cover distribution system equipment such as mobile leak detectors, line locators, valve exercisers, flow meters, hydrant condition assessors, pressure monitors, and training...
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