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Downtown construction on the south side of the Licking County Courthouse Square is entering the home stretch, while the north side prepares for its experience dealing with torn up roads and sidewalks and underground utility work. But the timetable for completion of the overall project is shifting from November 2017 to early 2018. Meanwhile, paving will begin next…
For Alex Athan, his new downtown Newark restaurant is like coming home. Athan and his business partner Stan Riley opened Barrel and Boar at 5 N. Third St. on Tuesday, just around the corner from where Athan’s old family-owned restaurant, The Natoma, was located for 88 years before it closed in 2010. He said he never envisioned coming back…
NEWARK – When the event page for the Canal Market District’s dedication ceremony went live, organizers were hoping the May 27 event would create some buzz. But they were stunned when after 48 hours, 320 people were already planning to attend. Over the past few weeks, that number has climbed to close to 450. More than 1,500 additional people…
NEWARK – Seven months of construction, two years of planning and nearly seven years of dreaming later, Liz Argyle can finally open the doors to her four loft apartments. From the day she bought the space for her photography studio, Argyle always knew she wanted to transform the vast, open space above the studio into…
NEWARK – The first roundabout opened in Newark on Wednesday, marking the end of the second phase of the downtown utility improvement project. Located at South Park Place and South Second Street, it is first of four roundabouts to be installed around the Courthouse Square as part of the $19.9 million project to upgrade downtown’s water…
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