Fredericktown News

Bids for the city's 2013 street paving program came in well under the estimated cost, Safety-Service Director Dave Glass reported.

What has long been considered a male dominated industry is now taking on a definite female angle.

At Thursday's school board meeting, State Rep. Margaret Ann Ruhl and the Ohio House paid tribute to Fredericktown High School for its "Excellent" rating on the 2011-12 school report card.

A Knox County man was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison for being his brother's getaway driver in a Willard business robbery.

A crash involving three vehicles happened on Wooster Road at the intersection of McKenzie Road and Vernonview Drive Tuesday at 3:26 p.m. The Ohio State Highway patrol said Annamarie Lewis, 24, Fredericktown, was driving south on Wooster Road and made a left turn into the path of a northbound car driven by Jordan Johnson, 18, Mount Vernon.

The Veggie U classroom garden program is under way at Fredericktown Elementary, and the program kicked off with fourth-grade students sampling some unusual tasting vegetables.

She was born May 5, 1933, to Velma and Leonard Hurley. She marred Robert Shambre and has three children: Mike Shambre of Greenwich; Sherri Middleton of Lilburn, Ga; and Kim Bursley of Fredericktown and a husband, the late Leonard Bursley.

The school board has engaged the firm Finding Leaders as its search consultant. The firm's president, Paul Pendleton, told the News the search process is on an "open timeline." "We're not putting an exact date on the close of applications," he said, "because we need to move quickly in order to have a person in place in the proper time." He predicts ... (more)

Most area farmers haven't gotten into their fields yet because it's been too wet.

Wednesday's cold front is taking longer to move through the state than expected.