One plan would keep all students in each grade level together; the other three options call for two K-6 elementary schools. Cost estimates range from $64 million to $84 million, and a school board vote could come in May.
The railyard at the end of East Locust Street in Newark is expansive and barren, filled with nooks and crannies. It’s dark, empty and out of the way – a less-than-perfect, but available place to lay one’s head when there is seemingly nowhere else to go.
The plan is for the HOME Court to meet on Wednesdays at 11 a.m., when representatives of social service organizations, homeless shelters, churches and governmental support agencies would be on hand.
The vast majority of local unhoused people are from here, and local police and nonprofit leaders say there is no evidence they are from elsewhere.
On Wednesday, Dec. 4 and Thursday, Dec. 5 the Licking County Emergency Warming Center at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Newark, opened on very short notice, with 24 total volunteers working to help dozens of people avoid a freezing night outside.
