With courthouse under wraps, Newark opens new Christmas plans

NEWARK, Ohio — As the August days dwindle, you might be wrapping your head around the fact that it’s back-to-school time, rolling your eyes at the Halloween decorations lining store shelves, and pushing to the farthest corner of your mind that this is the year you said you’d get a new snow blower. But Licking County leaders are running full-steam toward the winter holiday season. This morning — 123 days before Christmas (what, weren’t you counting?) — the Lick