Every spring, volunteers around the community gather to make Coshocton look pretty after the winter. The dates have been announced for West Lafayette, Coshocton, and Lake Park Clean-Up Days. Anyone is welcome to help and no registration is needed. Clean-up day at Lake Park will be Saturday, April 6 from 9 a.m. to noon. Volunteers […]
River View High School juniors Lanie Nickerson and Gavin Guilliams are using their senior project to continue a community clothing drive originally started by Jodi Morrison. Nickerson worked with Bobbi Rahn last year and Guilliams joined this year. Both will have one more year involved with the project. Morrison was the mentor for this project […]
The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum is excited to announce the high school A Playground of Talent winners. Staff also wants to thank the local art teachers Carissa Dickerson and Robin Hire (Ridgewood Local Schools), John Miller, Michelle Woodie, and Jennifer Young (Coshocton City Schools), and Rodney Stein, Sarah Fornara, and Anne Cornell (River View Local Schools) for […]
The West Lafayette Rotary Club is proud to announce that once again this year they will doing the Lease An American Flag program. Flags this year are $30. They will be installed for Memorial Day and will be left up until Veteran’s Day. The flags and poles are the property of the Rotary Club and […]
The Coshocton County Veterans Service Office will hold a First Friday Meet and Greet on Friday, April 5 at the AMVETS Post 36, located at 986 Otsego Ave. in Coshocton. The event will be from 8-10 a.m. This event is for all veterans and is a chance to get together for camaraderie, to ask questions, […]
Coshocton Regional Medical Center, a member of Prime Healthcare, received the 2024 Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award for the fourth time since 2020. This distinction places Coshocton Regional Medical Center among the top 10% of all short-term acute care hospitals as evaluated by Healthgrades. “Earning the Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award for the fourth time […]
River View Local School District will conduct its annual kindergarten screening to identify children entering kindergarten in the fall of 2024. The screening will occur on Thursday, April 11, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Friday, April 12, from 8:30 a.m. to noon at River View Elementary, 501 Blissfield Road in Warsaw. Kindergarten screening […]
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Kristopher S. Hains, age 38, of Coshocton, passed away on Saturday, April 20, 2024. He was born on April 18, 1986, in Coshocton, Ohio to Sandra (Crossley) Ungurean. Kristopher graduated from Coshocton High School in 2005. Kristopher was a very hard worker. He loved working with children and adults with special needs, working with them […]
Gregory M. Cox Sr., age 73, of Conesville, passed away on Monday, April 22, 2024, with his wife and beloved dog by his side. He was born on April 5, 1951, in Coshocton, to the late James F. and M. Wanetta (Whiteus) Cox Sr. He was a 1969 graduate of River View High School and […]
Jean Catherine “Kitty” Severance
Jean Catherine “Kitty” Severance, age 80 of Coshocton, passed away on April 24, 2024 at the Morrison Hospice House. She was born on May 27, 1943 in Huntington, WV to the late Charles and Frances (Gress) Brown. She attended Wahama High School in Mason, WV. She married her first husband, Larry Turley, and they had […]
James K. “Jim” Wright, 63, of Coshocton passed away on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at his home. Jim was born on October 30, 1960 in Coshocton, Ohio to the late James A. and Barbara (McCoy) Wright. He retired from Ohio Fabricators and was a member of the Coshocton Eagles. In his younger years he enjoyed […]
Marjorie J. “Marge” Groff, 87, of Coshocton passed away on Sunday, April 21, 2024, Riverside Manor in Newcomerstown. Marjorie was born in Newcomerstown on May 12, 1936, to the late Lawrence Samuel and Beatrice Susan (Schweitzer) Groff. Marge graduated from Newcomerstown High School in the class of 1953 and retired from Stone Container in Coshocton […]
Donald Rex Padgett, age 82, of Coshocton, passed away on Monday, April 15, 2024. He was born September 6, 1941, in Linton, Indiana to the late John and Helen (Utterback) Padgett. Don graduated from Franklin College in Indiana. While living in Indiana, he worked in Insurance, owned two bakeries and worked as a mine construction […]
Jean C. Raber, 84, of Coshocton passed away at her home surrounded by family on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. She was born in Coshocton on August 16, 1939 to the late Vincent Francis and Laura (Hiser) Lauvray. After graduating from Sacred Heart High School, Jean worked at the County Home before marrying her husband, Noah […]