Michael C. Hayes, age 70, of West Lafayette, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, November 24, 2024. He was born on November 10, 1954, in Coshocton, to John and Lois (Kinner) Hayes. Mike graduated from Ridgewood High School in 1973 and then worked part-time at the Post Office for several years in Fresno before being transferred […]
Mark Fortune
Mark Fortune, along with his wife Nancy, is the former owner and founder of The Coshocton County Beacon, the highest circulated newspaper in Coshocton County. He has over 40 years in the publishing business with sales, marketing, and journalism experience. After selling The Beacon to the AloNovus Corp., in January 2020, Mark has been a Business Development Strategist with the company. They publish a network of weekly news publications with almost a half million distribution weekly, a quarterly tourism magazine and a digital division. Mark enjoys
history, and has a passion for genealogy, currently researching and discovering his Fortune ancestry. He and his wife Nancy live on a small farm outside of Coshocton.
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Are we back on track yet?
As more and more venues open their doors to the public, are we increasing the risk of a spike in the COVID-19 virus? We are already seeing this happening around the world and in some cases, around the nation. As I bounce around on the internet looking at the number of cases, one thing strikes […]
It’s happening right in front of us
Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, positive things are happening in Coshocton County. The Three Rivers Bridge project is on tap to be finished this summer – and I think that all of us can see that the project is starting to wrap up – in a few weeks we will be able to […]
Have we kicked COVID-19 to the curb – or just down the road?
With last week’s column starting out in a bit of a revolutionary tone – that is a play on words of course as the wording was from the beginning of Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities.” There is nothing quite as alarming as that word – not Charles Dickens – but “revolutionary.” Hopefully folks […]
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
While certainly a cliché headline, for some reason the famous line from “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens popped into my head this week and just would not leave. I think it was telling me to write about it. So, let’s at least start with that and see where it leads. The book […]
Our status is still pending
Do you feel like the above headline is where we are on “reopening the economy,” “reopening the state,” etc? When in your life did you ever think that we would even consider uttering phrases like that – let alone have them as part of our daily language? It almost seems like the past two months […]
Let’s get out and support local businesses
Based solely on the amount of traffic that I see in town now I think just about everyone is tired of this and ready to move on with their lives, jobs and some recreational opportunities. That could be everyone actually. For all of you mother’s out there in Beacon readership land, here’s hoping that even […]
Get ready to go and stay positive
I think that I could use the same headline from week to week for this column and it would still be appropriate for our circumstances and our situation. And I am not just talking about the COVID-19 pandemic nor the re-opening – as it is called – of our state. Our community is faced with […]
What have we learned during this crisis?
A global pandemic that shuts down many businesses and has many others working from home should be considered an opportunity to learn – more about ourselves, our family and friends and our community. Have we done that? I’m not sure that I have done as much of that as I would like to. And that […]
