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TR employees honored by AP for their work
ZANESVILLE - Employees of the Zanesville Times Recorder received several honors from the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors Awards this week for work published in 2020. The Times Recorder competes in Division II.
Christine Holmes placed second for best headline writer. The TR received second place for best digital presence.
Chris Crook received third place for best photographer, third place for best photo story for pictures related to a pride event and second place for best video for a piece on Dresden & Co.
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ZANESVILLE - A local daycare owner is defending her business after the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services inspected the facility following a claim of inappropriate teaching behavior.
The visit was prompted after an observer s post criticizing what she saw inside the facility spread quickly across Facebook.
Several weeks after job shadowing at The Little Barnyard on Fairview Road, employee candidate Kiara Strupe described her experience on social media, detailing why she would never want to work at the childcare center.
In her post, Strupe said the teachers yelled at the young children, dismissed their concerns and made fun of one girl in particular for having a full diaper.
Licking View yard flooded with sewage, storm water
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FALLS TOWNSHIP - Even following weeks of copious amounts of rainfall, Skip Birkhimer didn t expect his Licking View rental home s basement and backyard would become a suburban swamp on Saturday complete with raw sewage.
During an inspection Tuesday morning, crews from the county sewer department found an old storm water system predating county records that some houses are illegally tapped into, according to Muskingum County Sewer Department manager Stan Lucas.
Birkhimer contacted the Environmental Protection Agency on Saturday, who in turned told the county sewer department to patch the leak as soon as possible. It was completed on Tuesday.