Quaker City News

Developing Story>>> 7News has confirmed that a home has been destroyed by a fire near Somerton Hwy.

Emergency crews responded to the scene of a vehicle accident on Interstate 70 at exit 193 near Quaker City late Saturday night.

ZANESVILLE -- The Grinch may try to steal Christmas but Motorcyclists for Kids were working hard Saturday to make sure the children in Morgan, Perry and Muskingum counties have something under their tree this year.

Two public hearings have been set by Mayor Jerry Wolford to present the half percent four-year income tax increase for capital improvements.

Despite Mayor Jerry Wolford's appeal for second and third readings on the municipal event fund, the ordinance received only a second reading after failing to the acquire the six votes needed to suspend council's rules for emergency passage on Tuesday.

A home at the intersection of Frankfort and Osborne roads was significantly damaged by a fire Wednesday morning that resulted in three area fire departments being dispatched to the scene.

The city's purchase of a strip of land along Pine Lake Road must wait at least two more meetings.

The Finance Committee agreed to have Ordinance 61, the municipal event line item, redrafted and sent to city council again on Thursday.

NEW LEXINGTON: Myrtle Leota Grimsley, age 75, of New Lexington, Ohio, died Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus.

Salem's Parks Department will apply to use the $10,000 Ohio Department of Natural Resources grant originally earmarked for constructing a skateboard park to stabilize the shores of the duck pond instead.

Without enough votes to pass a needed accounting ordinance, Salem Council Tuesday night put in jeopardy the city's opportunity to host the downtown party following the Quaker City Super Nats event at the raceway next June.

In the fall of 2005, Brian Caiazza and Corey Ward of the Steel Valley Super Nationals Core Promotions organization met with myself, Mayor Larry DeJane, Service Director Joe Julian and the Vice President of the Salem Area Chamber of Commerce, Gary Abrams regarding the city of Salem hosting the Steel Valley Super Nationals event.

Salem City Council dragged its feet Tuesday on a request needed to get the Quaker City Super Nats After Party event running.

Despite a request by Mayor Jerry Wolford for all three readings, city council said "no" and heard a first reading only on a municipal event fund ordinance that will hold and disburse money affiliated with the Quaker City Super Nats After Party.

City Council started and ended the first meeting after its August hiatus by dealing with two controversies.

Back in 2005, a pair of local promoters took a popular car show and kept it from leaving the area altogether, moving it from the Canfield Fairgrounds to the Quaker City Raceway.

The Super Nationals will be back in 2010, but under a new name. Quaker City Raceway owner Dan Swindell has assumed operation and promotion of the event, which will now be called Quaker City Super Nats.

Mayor Jerry Wolford released to City Council Tuesday four years of projects he would like to suggest to correspond with the proposed 0.5 percent income tax increase voters will see on the ballot in November.

Coshocton County Probate Court Marriages Licenses June 29 Bryan Dean Lacy of Conesville to Heidi Marie Roe of Quaker City.

With Council President Tod Mumpire casting the tie-breaking vote, city residents will get a chance to vote for or against a half percent income tax increase on Nov.