By Alyssa Kennedy, Intern and Christy Porter, Managing Editor Saturday was definitely a day to remember at Old City Park! The weather cooperated beautifully as the Rt. 63 Car Club held their 36th Annual Rt. 63 Car & Bike Show. The showcase of motorcycles and vehicles, a majority being timeless classics, numbered over 100. Entrants,…

In addition to the current media postings, in this week’s print edition of The Licking News: Rick Mansfield finds “Treasure Trash,” on a recent river cleanup, and expands on “true treasures,” and Larry Dablemont gives pointers on bass fishing “Topwater Time.” The Old Timer shares a prayer poem, “Prayer for Growing Old,” which may be…

  By Shari Harris, Publisher Licking R-VIII School District Superintendent Cristina Wright and the members of the school board held a public forum Monday evening at the FEMA gym to discuss Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) III funds and their Safe to Return to In-Person and Continuity of Services Plan (SRCSP). A low…

  By Christy Porter, Managing Editor Licking Residential Care hosted a Fish Fry and Auction in their parking area Monday evening. The goal of providing funds to help with activities and Christmas festivities for residents was met very successfully, according to Activities Director Jessica Hildebrand. Support from the community was shown by an estimated 150…

  By Marione Martin, Alva Review-Courier/Newsgram Recently my brother Gene sent me an old photograph from the 1950s. He’d been looking through photo albums and thought I’d like this one. It was taken in the office of our family’s weekly newspaper, The Licking News, published in Licking, Mo. My family, a longtime newspaper employee and…