Carroll County News

He's been in business as a Carrollton Realtor and auctioneer for more than 20 years, but Bill Newell says he's never seen the rental property market here so strong.

In ceremonies Friday, Carroll County assumed control of the financially troubled 104-room resort and golf course from the Muskingum Conservancy Watershed District.

Facing an unemployment rate of 9.6 percent at the end of 2011, Monroe County officials welcomed news this week that a Colorado-based energy company plans to locate a new natural gas-related processing plant there.

Workers from Austintown-based Wildcat Drilling work near Coshocton at a site where Buckeye Brine is installing a brine injection well.

It's not a new question: which is more important, the economy or the environment...and it was debated once again Tuesday night at Marietta College.

In regard to Robert "Bo" Huenke's Jan. 20 letter against fracking, I grew up in Carrollton, in Carroll County, and have many relatives there.

Here! Now! Imperative: not to be avoided: necessary. In a typical week, the show will cover not only all the big news stories, but also the stories behind the stories, or some of the less crucial but equally intriguing things happening in the world.

A workman on a drilling rig marks the pipe to be used for drilling a gas well in October 2011, in Carroll County about 90 miles south of Cleveland.

We have declared a Winter Weather Alert Day for later today into early tomorrow.

Producers Service Corp. on South Graham Street -- which specializes in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking -- created a special 30- to 40-member shale crew, most of whom already were working for Producers, to handle the new business volume.

The Carroll County Sheriff's Office wrapped up a long-running drug investigation Friday.