Perry County News

NEW LEXINGTON -- More than $30,000 was raised at the 25th annual Toys for Tots Auction Nov.

ZANESVILLE -- If there's one thing that Suzy Crossin has learned, it's that life is precious.

NEW LEXINGTON - Newark resident Kenneth Nichols could be sentenced to 90 days in jail if found guilty of vehicular manslaughter.

SOMERSET -- With 20 years of leadership in historical preservation work in Perry County, Joanne Hoover of Somerset received the Ohio's Hill Country Heritage Area Lifetime Achievement award at OHCHA's Roamin' the Hills event at the Glenford Native American Fort Oct.

Parkersburg City Park is all ready for the launch of its annual holiday lights display.

The future of the Waste Management's Canal Winchester transfer station on Walnut Street is in doubt after the company recently reached an agreement to dump all the trash it collects in Franklin County at the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio's landfill near Grove City.

NEW LEXINGTON -- Tim Fisher has spent thousands of hours uploading documents and information to two Web sites designed to help people research their Perry County family histories.

Two separate Toys for Tots auctions this weekend are hoping to raise thousands of dollars to provide for hundreds of children.

ZANESVILLE -- A Lancaster man has been indicted on two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and four counts of vehicular assault and faces up to 16 years in prison, according to Perry County Prosecutor Joseph Flautt.

State Route 37 in Perry County going into Junction City from New Lexington is closed at this time due to an accident.

Angel Palmer, who voted at the Community Center, said she enthusiastically supported both the library and Rambo levies.

SOMERSET: Dale Edwin Garey, 87, of Somerset, Ohio, died at 7:08 p.m. Saturday, October 31, 2009 at Autumn Health-care of Somerset.

SOMERSET - The Ohio State Highway Patrol is currently investigating a fatal crash on Ohio 13 near Tatman's Road in Perry County.

A vivid imagination combined with a love of reading has catapulted former Perry County resident Linn Keller into a writing career.

A Perry County woman is being held in the Southeast Regional Jail on rape charges.

NEW LEXINGTON - The New Lexington Police Department is releasing very little information in connection with a woman being charged with rape.

NEW LEXINGTON -- Melissa Marolt has been appointed executive director of the Perry County District Library.

Perry County Court Judge Dean Wilson Oct. 8 Linda Pritt, 21, 252 High St., Roseville, drug paraphernalia, $150 and costs, 10 days jail suspended, one-year license suspension from Oct.

Four people remain hospitalized Wednesday , one in critical condition, after a head-on crash on State Route 13 in Perry County.

The countdown to Christmas is a little more than two months away, but one local organization is already prepping for the holiday season.