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Candlelighting held at Roscoe Village

Candlelighting held at Roscoe Village

Historic Roscoe Village held the first of its annual Christmas Candlelighting Ceremonies on Dec. 2. The village Christmas tree and candlelighting has been a tradition in the village for 52 years. In the early 1950s the Montgomery Family planted 100 trees on their property at the top of Roscoe Hill. The trees had grown large […]

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Fortune’s Boot Shop helps CCCC students

Fortune’s Boot Shop helps CCCC students

Several Coshocton County Career Center students had a wonderful surprise a few weeks ago. After a casual conversation between Sheri Fortune and Mike Cichon, culinary arts teacher at the school, Fortune’s Boot Shop donated around 36 pairs of work shoes to students at the school. Brent Fortune said, “We just thought it would be a […]

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Meet Dustin Klein from Leadership Coshocton County

Meet Dustin Klein from Leadership Coshocton County

Dustin Klein is a Coshocton native, having grown up on his family’s property in Tyndall. He attended Conesville Elementary followed by River View Junior High and High School. His family included parents; two brothers and a sister, and he considers himself “very blessed.” His father worked at Kraft while his mother was a stay-at-home mom, […]

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Sports

River View rec leagues to meet

On Monday, Nov. 13 at 6:30 p.m., there will be a meeting at River View Intermediate School, the former junior high, for discussion on consolidation of River View East and River View West Recreation. Anyone interested in being involved is asked to attend, whether you are a current board member or officer in either rec, […]

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MVL hands out awards

MVL Girls Soccer Awards were handed out to several River View High School and Coshocton High School athletes. In the big school division offensive player of the year and player of the year went to Alyssa Fox a junior at River View. Big Division MVL First Team honorees for River View were Fox, fellow junior […]

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Volleyball honors shared

The District 5 Volleyball All-Stars list for Division II includes Player of the Year Haley Balo, a sophomore at River View High School who also earned first team honorees. Second team honors went to River View freshmen Layla Olinger and Kelsie Smith. River View Senior Brittany Henderson was an honorable mention. In Division III Lacey […]

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Opinion

Around the world in just a balloon

Around the world in just a balloon

Those of us that are in a certain “age range” will recall the original 1956 movie, “Around the World in 80 Days” starring David Niven as the English inventor Phileas Fogg. The film was remade in 2004 and starred Steve Coogan as the inventor. The film was based on the Jules Verne classic 1873 novel […]

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Coshocton County is rolling into the New Year

Coshocton County is rolling into the New Year

You can choose the wording but regardless of how you want to construct your sentence (I just got chills from thinking about sentence structure in high school) our community is on the move. New construction projects dot the landscape, businesses are opening, expanding, moving to new locations in both the public and private sectors. It […]

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Squeezin’ the stuffins out

That’s what it looked like to me – the Buckeyes maybe ate too much Thanksgiving turkey and stuffing. Brilliant at times, lethargic when it mattered. Apparently TTUN just wanted it more. Serious fans have already crunched all the numbers and know that the Buckeyes still have an outside chance to make the four-team playoff – […]

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Notices

Sheriff Office Report for Nov. 3, 2021

The Sheriff’s Office investigated 1 Accidents and 6 Complaints.  Accidents:  Chris Winegar of Coshocton reported a non injury accident in the Wal-Mart parking lot. Complaints:  A female reported an assault. A White Eyes Township Trustee reported damage to a property on Township Road 172. Marcia Hardesty of Coshocton reported vandalism in the 400 block of […]

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Sheriff Office Report for Nov. 2, 2021

The Sheriff’s Office investigated 0 Accidents and 10 Complaints.  Accidents:  Complaints:  Deputies responded to an overdose in the 500 block of North Oak Street in West Lafayette John Barker of Coshocton reported a stolen vehicle in the 1500 block of Adams Street Muskingum County Job and Family Services reported a sexual abuse case that took […]

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Sheriff Office Report for Oct. 29, 2021

The Sheriff Office investigated 5 Accident and 4 Complaints.  Accident:  Alia Everhart of Coshocton reported a hit skip in the 300 block of South Third Street. Elisha Shaw of Washington Court House was traveling eastbound on US Route 36 and rear ended a vehicle being operated by Fredrick Wachtel of Coshocton Ceicie Rhoades of Blissfield […]

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Clubs & Organizations

Annual cake auction winners announced

Annual cake auction winners announced

The 18th annual BPW Cake Auction was held in the Frontier Power Community Room on Nov. 4. This year’s theme was the movies. Category’s included a children’s competition the rising star. The youngest baker to enter the competition was 5 and the oldest was 17. Next included most unusual or unique for adults and the people’s […]

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BPW Cake Auction to be held Nov. 4

BPW Cake Auction to be held Nov. 4

The annual Business Professional Women’s Cake Auction will be held Saturday, Nov. 4 at the Frontier Power Community Room on Second Street in Coshocton.  This year, the theme is “The Movies.” Cakes can be viewed and voted on from noon to 4 p.m. The auction begins at 4 p.m. Everyone can vote on their favorite […]

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4-H displays show interests of club members

Walking through the 4-H displays in the youth building at the Coshocton County Fair this year visitors can see a wide variety of projects ranging from livestock to welding, food, sewing projects, anything is possible. This is the opportunity for 4-H members to show their hard work over the past year. Area clubs were busy […]

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E-Edition

November 30, 2023 Coshocton County Beacon

November 30, 2023 Coshocton County Beacon

This week’s e-edition of The Coshocton County Beacon is now online. Want to get free mail delivery of the print edition of The Beacon? Request it here!

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November 23, 2023 Coshocton County Beacon

November 23, 2023 Coshocton County Beacon

This week’s e-edition of The Coshocton County Beacon is now online. Want to get free mail delivery of the print edition of The Beacon? Request it here!

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November 16, 2023 Coshocton County Beacon

November 16, 2023 Coshocton County Beacon

This week’s e-edition of The Coshocton County Beacon is now online. Want to get free mail delivery of the print edition of The Beacon? Request it here!

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