Pataskala News

West Licking Fire District officials said on Wednesday that fire Chief David Fulmer was placed on paid administrative leave.

A group of Pataskala Elementary third graders prepare to place flags on the graves of veterans buried at Pataskala Cemetery.

PATASKALA, Ohio -- Deputies are searching for two men suspected of being involved in a robbery of a CVS Pharmacy in Pataskala Monday afternoon.

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Licking Memorial Health Systems is planning to open a second urgent care facility in the county near the Granville/Newark border in the fall.

The move, school officials said, will free up classroom space at the other elementary schools, lessening the need to bus students away from their home schools.

While leaving Columbus Grove schools wasn't an easy decision to make, recent success allows Bob Jennell to know he is leaving at a good time.

Licking Heights seniors Zach Dunbrack, left, and Alijah Durr, right, plan on spending their post-high-school years in the military.

General election voters in Newark will decide two issues Nov. 6, but not the two issues some Democrats wanted to see on the ballot.

Pataskala City Council on Monday listened to the first reading of an ordinance that would increase water and sewer rates.

An OVI checkpoint run Friday night in Pataskala resulted in two OVI arrests. The checkpoint operated from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. Saturday and saw 698 vehicles pass through the checkpoint onBroad Street eastofColumbia Road.

Tommy Howe, one of the owners of Buster's Corner Store, greets a customer after the store reopened Thursday in Pataskala.

The Southwest Licking Board of Education has narrowed its superintendent search to two candidates, who will be guests at a community question-and-answer session at 5:30 p.m. Monday, May 21, in the district-office gymnasium, 927-A South St.

A group of Pataskala residents have successfully saved a community pool, which the city did not have the funds to keep open.

The Highway Patrol and Pataskala police will operate at a location on Broad Street east of Columbia Road in Pataskala from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. The operation is synchronized with an area law enforcement saturation effort that will put a full complement of uniformed officers on area roads to enforce traffic laws.

Knights, lords and ladies will be at the park for Mugmort Melees VII, an event dedicated to reenacting the Middle Ages.

Pataskala residents Andy and Ann Walther are leading the effort to reopen the Pataskala Community Pool, once home to green slime and bullfrogs.

Becoming healthier isn't always easy, especially for kids. But one local high school is being recognized for its efforts to help students live healthier lives.

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Pataskala police and Licking County paramedics were called to S.R. 16, just east of Mink Street SW, on a report of a crash at about 10:50 a.m. Marilyn McPeek, 64, of Pataskala, was driving a 1986 Oldsmobile when the vehicle went left of center and hit a dump truck, Pataskala police told NBC4 .