Author: Thomas Clapper

Items ranging from food, furniture, paintings, wood cutting, metal work, stained glass and more were sold at the 4-H Still Project Auction held July 17.  Claire Eshler topped the sale with cinnamon rolls sold to Mark Cargill for $1,900. Abagail Bailey sold an American flag cake for $1,300.  One unique item in the sale was a handmade stained glass window made by Abigail Zeedyk and purchased by Geno and Heather

Madi Baker of Carrollton closed out her junior fair career with a win in the won the coveted Super Showmanship contest at the 2024 Carroll County Fair. Baker won the dairy showman of showmen title and earned the right to compete against eight other showman of showmen Friday morning. Contestants instructed the other participants on how to show the species they represented and then served as judge for that species

By Carol McIntire Editor Three records were broken and one was literally smashed when the champion market goats were sold during the 2024 Carroll County Junior Fair Small Animal Sale.  New marks were etched in the record books for the grand and reserve champion goats and the reserve champion market goat, but the record for the champion goat carcass was smashed with the new mark certain to stand for years

By Carol McIntire Editor Tractor pulling is a sport that spans the ages and decades. Mark Cargill, 82, and Blake McIntire, 9, proved that to be true last week at the Friday deadweight tractor pull at the 2024 Carroll County Fair.  Cargill has been a regular puller on a John Deere tractor at the county pull for about 65 years. McIntire made his first trip to the sled Thursday on

Two days after fire destroyed a 40×100-feet barn used to store hay and straw, smoke continued to escape from bales of hay exposed when the structure collapsed. Augusta Volunteer Fire Department Chief Charles Wright said his department was toned June 12 at 8:50 p.m. for a fully involved structure fire at 1235 Brush Rd., Minerva. “When we arrived, we found the barn fully involved in flames and partially collapsed,” Wright

Officials for the local group known as Pullin for a Cause recently presented a check for $68,926.80 to Akron Children’s Hospital, representing proceeds from the 2024 tractor pull. Maryann Smith, who along with her husband, Bud, head up the annual event, was on hand for the presentation along with pull volunteers Jennifer Cramer and Greg Young. The check was presented to Taylor Cooper, special events coordinator for Akron Children’s Hospital,

By Carol McIntire Editor Thanks to a local historian, the 154-year history of Carrollton High School is, as they say, “in the books.” It’s literally “in the books” thanks to Ronald J. (Ron) Colaprete, who recently finished and published a 400-plus page book that chronicles the history of the school back to its opening date on Nov. 15, 1869. The former history teacher spent the last three years searching historical

By Carol McIntire Editor The return of fireworks to the Carroll County fairgrounds to celebrate July 4th was a huge success and plans are already in the works for next year. Members of the Fraternal Order of Eagles (FOE) Ladies Auxiliary #2185 said the event, held July 5, was such a success, they have a nice deposit for the 2025 event. “We took in $8,000 at the event, which is

By Carol McIntire Editor Encino Energy (EAP Ohio) is producing over half the oil in Ohio, according to first quarter 2024 figures released recently by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas. Oil production from Encino represented 51.3 percent of all Ohio Utica Shale oil production during the first period. The percentage translates into 3,708,011 barrels of oil in the first quarter.  According to Ray Walker,

Several Carroll, Columbiana and Harrison County projects received funding from House Bill 2, the state’s two-year construction budget for capital projects throughout the state.The Capital Budget will make historic invests in local community projects, according to Monidca Robb Bladel, who represents Carroll and Columbiana counties in the Ohio House, and Don Jones, who represents Harrison County.The bill will allocate more than $4.2 billion for projects, including $717 million in one-time

The County County District Library held its annual worm race championship this year titled “Big Wandering Worm Off!”  Andrew Sommer, 9, took the first-place spot out of the four finalists.  Sommer, who took the big prize was the youngest competitor in the finals joined by finalists Mason Wetherwax, 13; Victoria Ferren, 13; and Evan Sommer, 13. Each worm gave its best effort, but Sommer won out of approximately 56 racers

By Jacquie Humphrey  CCM Correspondent Conotton Valley Board of Education members unanimously agreed to place a 4-mill tax levy on the Nov. 5 general election ballot during a June 27 special meeting.  The board met in an early morning session to address the issue of placing an additional tax levy for the purpose of permanent improvements. All members were in attendance and voted in favor of the proposed 4-mill levy.

The Fraternal Order of Eagles (FOE) Ladies Auxiliary #2185i s hosting the return of the annual fireworks celebration to the Carroll County fairgrounds Friday, July 5.  Schedule of events Vendor setup begins at 2 p.m. Gates open at 4 p.m. for the vendor fair, which will be located under the grandstand and on the midway. Food trucks will be located on the midway. D.J. Tyree will spin the tunes from

By Carol McIntire Editor Jensen and Hudson Stull are gearing up for what they hope is the ride of their lives in a Soap Box Derby car next month. The brothers, the sons of Brian and Crissy (Guess) Stull of Tuscarawas County are both qualified and plan to compete in the 86th First Energy All American Soap Box Derby in Akron July 20. The race is held Saturday, culminating a

Sherrodsville Volunteer Fire Department was one of five departments which responded to a fire in the former Roswell School, which has been turned into a private residence.The departments were dispatched to the scene at by Tuscarawas County 911 at approximately 5:30 p.m. June 17 with Sherrodsville arriving first to the scene.According to Sherrodsville Fire Chief Buddy Miller, the blaze began on the stove in the kitchen and was mostly contained

Village of Minerva officials cut the ribbon and held an open house June 7 to mark the opening of its new Customer Service Station. The Customer Service Station is a project that came about after conversations between staff and members of village council. Oftentimes visitors to village hall had difficulty finding the right employee on the correct floor to get the information they needed.  There is now a centralized location

By Carol McIntire Editor Carrollton Exempted Village School District received a Healthy Meals Incentives Recognition Award for improving the nutritional quality of school meals. The recipients are headed to Las Vegas later this year to accept it.  Awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) in collaboration with Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK), Carrollton Schools received the “Innovation in Nutrition Education Award” for work in

By Carol McIntire Editor The park on the hill or “Hill Park” in Amsterdam received an official name during a June 1 ceremony.  The park was named Pepperling Park in honor of former Amsterdam Mayor Gary Pepperling, who was instrumental in the development of the park, located on the “hill” near the intersection of Liberty and Oler streets. “I’m really humbled by this,” Pepperling said after current Mayor Jim Phillips

By Carol McIntire Editor FFA Camp Muskingum officials celebrated a very “Iconic” spot at the Leeville Lake camp and an “Iconic” employee during a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Blue Gill Rock amphitheater June 4. The iconic camp spot – Blue Gill Rock – and the iconic employee – Gerry Marteney- both meet Webster’s definition of iconic: “very famous or popular.” Blue Gill Rock, has been a popular spot at

Mt. Pleasant VBSMt. Pleasant Methodist Church is hosting Scuba Vacation Bible School on June 3-7, 9-11:30 a.m. for ages 3 through 6th grade.To register, call the church at 330-627-2219. During VBS, children will explore God’s awesomeness and form a rock-solid faith. Sherrodsville Wesleyan Church (Updated Times)The Sherrodsville Wesleyan Church will be holding its Vacation Bible School from June 10-14, 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m. at the church for ages 3-19.The theme this

By Thomas Clapper CCM Reporter Carroll County Commissioners discussed the Annex Building at the May 30 meeting.  It has been determined that the Emergency Management Agency, including Director Tom Cottis and Deputy Director Dustin Lucas, will also move to the new building on Moody Avenue.  “Cottis and Lucas looked at spaces that will be occupied by the EMA,” said Commissioner Robert Wirkner. “They are still designing where they want to