Pataskala News

NEWARK -- The Licking Memorial Hospital Development Council will honor Glenn Abel, of Newark, with its Lifetime Achievement Award during a reception in late October at the Reese Center.

NEWARK - The newest bar in Newark is the Newark Catholic Faculty Lounge, according to the yellow pages in Windstream's most recent Newark/Licking County/Zanesville phone book.

PATASKALA - Throwing knives at people may be acceptable inside circus tents, but a Pataskala man found out Wednesday night that it can get you arrested outside that setting.

PATASKALA - A man was hospitalized Wednesday evening after receiving a very serious puncture wound to his arm during a stabbing, said Pataskala Police Chief Chris Forshey, and a suspect in his custody.

PATASKALA - AEP customers in Pataskala now have power, after it was off for more than an hour earlier today.

Granville Township is cutting the size of its proposed new garage by one-quarter in revised specifications for which it is seeking a second set of bids in September.

PATASKALA -- A Job Ready Site that has the potential to bring hundreds of jobs into Licking County could be in peril if school, county and Pataskala city officials cannot agree to a property tax abatement for ...

Time Warner television customers throughout Licking County will be able to watch Ohio State's season-opening football game Saturday on the Big Ten Network.

Cramped in a small back room of an abandoned industrial building amongst Fender, Gibson and Kraig Phillips guitars, the Columbus-based band Stretch Lefty takes a step back through time to explain themselves.

PATASKALA -- The Southwest Licking Board of Education and Pataskala could find themselves at odds about an agreement involving a proposed corporate park.

Plus: Newark's new school buildings are getting donated works of art from local artists.

PATASKALA -- Jacob Berlekamp approached the stop sign at the intersection and looked both ways before slowly inching forward.

PATASKALA -- Matt Truex had a breakout junior season for Watkins Memorial behind an experienced offensive line.

PATASKALA -- Many of Pataskala's roads are in bad shape, and they could disintegrate even more if the city does not get an income tax in 2009, city officials said.

Recent testing by the Licking County Health Department has shown four pools of mosquitoes in the county have tested positive for West Nile virus, including a pool in Pataskala.

PATASKALA -- School kicked off Tuesday morning in the Licking Heights district, and students sharpened their new pencils, learned different bus routes and got acquainted with new teachers and classmates.

Sixth-graders getting a first look at their new Watkins Middle School building in Pataskala missed out on one back-to-school tradition: meeting their new teachers.

PATASKALA -- One person remained in a Columbus hospital Wednesday after a three-car crash at 7:48 p.m. Tuesday at the intersection of Morse and Beech roads in Pataskala.

PATASKALA - Parents and students visited Watkins Middle School on Monday night to tour the school's sixth-grade classrooms and meet their teachers, but the teachers were not there.

PATASKALA -- Six young belles of West Licking County demonstrated their knowledge of fire prevention in the 25th annual Little Miss Firefighter Pageant Aug.