Nora Meeks

Like many suburban American neighborhoods, mine has a lot of deer. Each year there seems to be more and more, much to the chagrin of many of my neighbors and my father, whose plants are the deer’s favorite buffet. But this summer our local deer population had a new genetic addition: A small portion of the herd had what looked like vitiligo. After a quick consultation of the internet, I learned that this is actually called piebaldism.

The City of Newark has entered into an 18 month service agreement to evaluate a property in southern Knox county for an additional water source. The property, a 300-acre site north of Utica, will be evaluated to see if it could be viable for wells or a reservoir – or both. If it’s deemed a viable water source, the city would see it as a regional asset that could benefit other nearby communities, including Utica and townships between Knox County and Newark.

Save a Life Day, a grassroots national day of action to promote access to the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone, will return to Licking County this week, with an event scheduled at the Courthouse Square in Newark on Sept. 24, 2026. It’s one of more than 1,100 events slated to take place across all 50 states on Thursday. Originating in West Virginia, the event is held annually nationwide on the fourth Thursday of September, which is National Recovery Month.