Munson Elementary News Today

Munson Elementary’s annual Veterans Week traditions were once again an inspiring success. They created engaging opportunities for young Hilltoppers to learn about the importance of honoring veterans and how they as students can make a difference both now and throughout their lives via service projects, including penny wars, collectively raising $2,300 for local veterans charities; […]

The Muskingum County land bank started cleanup of former Mosaic Tile and Munson school sites.

The land bank awarded both projects to SafeCo of Dilliner, Pa. The combined cost of the two demolitions is a total of $2,158,100.

During an announcement last Wednesday, when the Lt. Governor was in town to bring news of the allocation of funds to clean up and raze one former industrial site in Zanesville and redevelopment a closed elementary school, he stated a startlingly statistic, with only 40,000 individuals still on unemployment in Ohio, 150,000 open positions, all...

News items from the local area

Housing developer Woda Cooper plans to install 12 one-bedroom, 26 two-bedroom and 12 three-bedroom apartment, all for low-income individuals.

CSD Housing, based in upstate New York, is interested in turning the old Munson School site into affordable housing once the building is demolished.

Once funding is secured, the former Mosaic Tile Company and Munson Elementary School, both brownfield sites, are expected to be demolished.

Officials have changed course on revitalizing Munson Elementary School into apartments, but their quest to add housing to Zanesville isnt over.