Guernsey County News

Seven area churches will participate in the second annual "Steeple Walk" beginning at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov.

Knox County Common Pleas Court justice Otho Eyster isn't one to follow the crowd.

Beginning on Monday, Nov. 23, area children can be registered to receive gifts on Christmas Eve from the Secret Santa program.

Perhaps the best holiday tradition is the extensive Christmas light displays we can find.

Keynote speaker for the Veterans Day ceremony was Guernsey County Common Pleas Judge David Ellwood, r. www.buyjeffphotos.com The Veterans Day parade makes its way along Wheeling Avenue Wednesday to the Guernsey County Courthouse.

It may seem early, but one local community is officially ready for the holidays.

"I think everyone needs to be involved in volunteer work, and this is something I can really get behind," said local businesswoman Kathi Albertson, co-owner of the Cambridge Trading Company Christmas tree farm, of the national organization Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry.

Even in today's economy, Zanesville community continues to give. On Oct. 17, the Cozy Corner Cafe hosted a cornhole tournament/benefit for Aaron Dumolt, who, in September, was overcome by poisonous gas while working on a well in Guernsey County.

Bill Shepard met with Guernsey County commissioners Monday to address an issue with a U.S. 40 property that resulted from the installation of a new 16-inch waterline from just east of Cambridge to Old Washington.

Dan Mallett of the Cambridge street department, piles salt inside the city's salt barn Monday morning.

The Cambridge-Guernsey County Health Department has announced that two non-hospitalized residents have tested positive for H1N1 through an independent lab.

Cambridge voters approved a 1/2 of 1 percent income tax increase Tuesday. "Make no bones about it," said Mayor Tom Orr, "we ducked a big missile." Revenues from the increase will be split, by law, between the city's police and fire department; 75 percent for the former and 25 percent for the latter.

CHICAGO The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency , in partnership with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources , will host a flood risk information open house for Guernsey County on Monday, Nov.

Sandra Miller, r, director Guernsey County Board of Elections, and Lori Bamfield, deputy director, look at one of the 140 electronic voting machines that will be going out to the 25 polling stations in the county Tuesday.

"The dog is a guardian angel!" said Theresa Yingling about Buddy, the yellow lab her family adopted recently from the Guernsey County Dog Shelter, that saved her family not once, but twice, from danger one night last month.

COLUMBUS - Franklin and Scioto counties had the most driving under suspension arrests over the past three years according to new statistics recently released by the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

COSHOCTON - It took a jury two hours to find John Workman, 42, of Dewey Avenue, Cambridge, guilty on two of the felony counts for which he was indicted in April.

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

"How will I know if I have the flu this season?" Individuals may have the flu if they have one or more of the following symptoms -- fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills, fatigue and sometimes, diarrhea and vomiting.

The Cambridge Guernsey County Health Department will host a series of H1N1 public information meetings for parents of children attending the three school districts in Guernsey County.