Local News Briefs: Carpenter wins Franklin B. Walter Award
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Carpenter wins Franklin B. Walter Award
Laney Carpenter recently won the Franklin B. Walter All-Scholastic Award for Guernsey County from the Ohio Educational Service Center Association.
The Cambridge High School senior is the daughter of Aaron and Audra Carpenter of Cambridge. She plans to attend Marietta College and study accounting.
The Franklin B. Walter All-Scholastic Award was established in 1989 by Ohio s County Superintendents to recognize student achievement and promote academic accomplishment. Only one senior from each of Ohio s eighty-eight counties is chosen to receive this honor each year. The recipients are the top scholars in their class.
The Daily Jeffersonian
Editors Note: This is the first in a series of stories highlighting the history behind many of the buildings in downtown Cambridge. This article focuses on buildings in the 600 block of Wheeling Avenue.
Many of the buildings in downtown Cambridge are the original structures built in the early days of the city and have historical significance, either for the role they played in the development of Cambridge or for the notable people who visited them or events held within.
The Berwick
The former Berwick Hotel constructed at 615 Wheeling Ave. in 1887 is now known as the Berwick Building and houses The Cambridge Area Chamber of Commerce and the United Way offices, as well as senior apartments.
Living Word returns this year with new performance director
Special to The Jeffersonian
The Living Word Outdoor Drama Board of Trustees is excited to announce the 2021 season schedule for Ohio’s only Outdoor Passion Play.
The Living Word Outdoor Drama will open Friday, Aug. 6 and continue on Fridays and Saturdays through Sept. 25. The new season will also bring it a new performance director, Mary Beth Sills, who was hired in March.
The passion play was closed for the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The trustees are enthusiastic to have a 2021 season, said Heath Dawson, Living Word executive director. For those who live in Guernsey County, they will be familiar with Sills, Dawson said in a press release. She is the executive director for Cambridge Main Street, serving as the voice of small business and building owners in downtown Cambridge.
VCB Announces Recipients of 2021 Grant Assistance Program
2021 GAP recipients back row (l) Cindy Arent- National Museum of Cambridge Glass; Heather Carpenter – Guernsey County Community Improvement Corporation; Brad Richert – Cambridge Lions Club; Rick Booth – Guernsey County History Museum; Ralph Ray – Cambridge Lions Club; Dana Launder – Deerassic Park Education Center; Karen Boyer – Pritchard Laughlin Civic Center . Front Row (l) Lindy Thaxton – Dickens Victorian Village; Brenda Taylor – Salt Fork Arts & Crafts Festival; Mary Beth Sills- Cambridge Main Street and Debi DiVenti – Cambridge Performing Arts Center
CAMBRIDGE, OHIO (April 23, 2021) – The Cambridge/Guernsey County Visitors & Convention Bureau recently announced 10 local non-profit organizations that are recipients of the 2021 Grant Assistance Program (GAP).