New Concord News

COLUMBUS -- Large budget cuts to Ohio's adoption services will make it more difficult for the 3,000 children in need of a stable home to find suitable parents, advocates said.

ZANESVILLE -- CrimeStoppers could be coming to Muskingum County. County Commissioners met with Muskingum County CrimeStoppers Watch Coordinator Don Jones and Sheriff Matt Lutz Thursday to discuss rolling out the citizen program county-wide in the coming weeks.

As a result of the general election Tuesday, both incumbents will return to New Concord Village Council and will be joined by a pair of new faces.

Bruce Crutchfield and Kevin McIntyre have joined Prudential McCollister. Crutchfield is a native of Southeastern Ohio and has worked in the real estate business for more than 30 years.

Adoption has come a long way since I was a kid. The first recorded adoption of a transracial child took place in 1948.

ZANESVILLE -- Kenneth W. Catlett III was found to be incompetent or unrestorable after a competency hearing in a Muskingum County Common Pleas court Monday and now faces up to life in a mental health institution.

NEW CONCORD: Anna Pauline Gibson, 86, passed away on Saturday October 24, 2009 at The Beckett House in New Concord.

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

NEW CONCORD -- Muskingum University is asking its alumni to make a donation of $50 or more by Nov.

Saturday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Grace Community Church of the Nazarene, 7945 Tunnel Hill Road, New Lexington.

ZANESVILLE --For the first time since she was a teenager, country singer Danielle Peck performed close to home Saturday.

NEW CONCORD -- Dustin Zimmerman's goal in the second overtime lifted visiting Marietta to a 1-0 win over Muskingum Wednesday in the Ohio Athletic Conference.

ZANESVILLE - Firefighters, peace officers and emergency medical personnel from a six-county area will be honored Saturday for their service to their communities.

Last week's article about bees received a lot of comments and more stories about bees.

The six libraries of the Muskingum County Library System -- John McIntire, Dresden, New Concord, Duncan Falls-Philo, Roseville and South Zanesville -- have become victims of the current financial downward spiral and need our help.

NEW CONCORD -- Heath Zealer knocked in a goal off a Chad Gerlach assist in the 27th minute, and Muskingum made it hold up for a 1-0 victory over Wilmington Tuesday.

NEW CONCORD -- Luke Engle earned medalist with 39 and Maysville was second in the Muskingum Valley League tournament Saturday at Wildfire.

Jeffrey Emil Rice, 32, is wanted on nine counts of deception to obtain dangerous drugs.

NEW CONCORD --Presbyterian Mission Worker Nancy Collins will give a presentation on her work in Egypt.

NEW CONCORD -- If Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy and the rest of the Peanuts gang still are searching for The Great Pumpkin, they need only travel to the Neptune home in New Concord.