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Clarity Cotton Dresses opens retail Dresden Melon

location in New Concord BY LYNETTE DOTSON | THE BUZZ Festival brings
food, games, live
music, and of
course melons

to Dresden River
Park August 1

BY LYNETTE DOTSON | THE BUZZ
Dresden is preparing for its third
large summer event for 2026, the
Dresden Melon Festival, scheduled
for Saturday, August 1. This all-day
celebration, hosted by The Friends
of the Dresden Parks, honors Dres-
den’s melon-growing history.
The festival will be held at the
Dresden River Park with parking at
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OCTOBER 20 - NOVEMBER 3, 2023 nearby Tri-Valley High School. Shut-
tle services will be provided. Entry
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to the event is only $1 per person
until 4 p.m. and $2 after that.
This is the 19th year that the
Dresden Melon Festival has been
held after bringing it back. The
Visit Our
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event was established many years
ago to celebrate the harvest of the
Campus!
Campus!
locally grown Dresden Melon. The
A ribbon cutting was held to celebrate the opening of Clarity Cotton Dresses in New Concord. Lynette Dotson festival has become a summer-
A new boutique recently opened in “Anytime we can get new business- New Concord, Robert Dickson, who time favorite.
New Concord. Clarity Cotton Dresses, es to come in, especially to someone attended the ribbon cutting. “The big thing this year is just the
located at 24 E. Main Street, sells or- that brings this much excitement, The ribbon cutting was held just a change of our schedule of events,”
zanestate.edu/visit
ganically handmade dresses made and it’s a unique type of business couple of weeks after Clarity Cotton said Mellisa Stanford, Dresden
from 100% cotton using natural – the dresses are beautiful, they’ve Dresses owner Jaye Lenchis took Melon Festival Committee Chair.
dyes. The New Concord Area Board done a wonderful job renovating the possession of the building that hous- “That’s gonna be the big thing that
DRESDEN | FRAZEYSBURG | ZANESVILLE | SOUTH ZANESVILLE | NEW CONCORD | ADAMSVILLE | PHILO | ROSEVILLE
of Trade welcomed the new business place and fixing it up. They’re going es her business. She and her hus- we are trying to communicate be-
by hosting a ribbon cutting ceremony to be a welcome new business to band, Michael, worked to repair and cause it’s always been the same.”
TVHS Athletic Hall of Fame Class of The decision to shift certain
Country
New Concord,” said the mayor of improve the shop space to prepare
on July 10.
events was made because even
Crossroads
2023 inducted CONTINUED ON A2 though parts of the festival are in
the shade, certain events can still
Ohio Stoneware to host Paint Your Own Pet get pretty hot for participants and
Education of
Yesterday hosts
Party in support of the Muskingum County those observing.
Some popular events for the day
19th annual Farm
Animal Shelter BY LYNETTE DOTSON | THE BUZZ include a fishing tournament (start-
ing at 5:30 a.m.), craft show/flea
market (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.),
Show by Lynette Dotson
a 5K/10K race (9:30 a.m.), kids’
Ohio Stoneware Factory Outlet is games, a bounce house and petting
hosting a special Paint Your Own zoo (9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.), a kid’s
It’s that time of the year again! The
event for pet owners and their ca- watermelon eating contest (11:00
Country Crossroads Education of Yester-
nine friends. A Paint Your Own Pet a.m.), a kids’ seed spitting con-
day Farm Show has been educating lo-
Party will be held on Saturday, Au- test (noon), the melon derby (1:00
cal youth and families about how farm-
ing was done in the past for nearly two
gust 1st from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at p.m.), a cornhole tournament (reg-
decades. This year’s show will be held
the company’s factory outlet build- istration at noon, tournament at
on Saturday, October 21st from 10 a.m.
ing located at 1719 Dearborn Street 1:00 p.m., and winners announced
to 5 p.m., and Sunday, October 22nd
in Zanesville. at 3:00 p.m.), and a cruise-in (from
from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 3685 Cass
The event will be held in the park- 3:00 to 6:00 p.m.), For a complete
Irish Ridge Road, Dresden (intersections
ing lot and paint-your-own room at list of events visit the Dresden Mel-
of SR 16 & 60).
Ohio Stoneware, where attendees on Festival website.

The Moore family including siblings
Kendra Moore-Hindel and Jeff Moore
can choose an item to paint, like a “This year I really wanted to fo-
have continued the event that was their
pet feeder or ornament, and cus- cus on the vendors,” said Stanford.
father, the late Kenny Moore Jr.’s vi-
tomize it with their pet’s paw print, There are around 30 vendors who
sion. He had a passion for teaching area
name, or any other custom design. have registered. Stanford men-
youth about farming and loved tractors,
The pet-friendly paint used is non-tox- tioned one of her favorites being
trains, and old equipment.
ic and water-based. a glass blowing group who work at
“The community amazes me on
“Because it’s a pet event, we’ve The Works in Newark.
their continued support and we are
promoted our pet feeders and our
blessed to continue our father’s dream
Tri-Valley Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2023 pictured from left to right: Collin Prouty, Jade Hawkins Hilliard, Marcus Dempsey, Kim Waaland. Musical entertainment for the
and visions. 19 years strong. Next year
ornaments, but we have over 75 dif-
Dan Vincent evening includes Tom & Brady,
will be our 20th annual farm show
ferent shapes that folks can choose
by Gregg Meadows Tiffany Pattison holds a finished pet feeder next to a portion of the paintable stoneware options Hunter Lepi, and Appalachian Out-
from to decorate. So, if they don’t available in the Paint-Your-Own room at Ohio Stoneware Factory Outlet. Lynette Dotson and hopefully my nieces and nephews

Since its inception 57 years ago in
have been exceptional. These Tri-Valley pus – the 15th class of the Tri-Valley laws performing at 3:10 p.m., 5:00
will continue on in their grandfather’s
want to do a pet feeder, but would graduates are the ones who have helped High School Athletic Hall of Fame was p.m., and 7:00 p.m. respectively.
the fall of 1966 – when three school
dream,” explained Hindel.
systems came together as one to form shapes to choose from,” said owner ments are $13.75, although typical- Volunteers are needed to help at
rather do a prop or a mixing bowl,
form Tri-Valley’s rich athletic tradition recognized, inducted, and celebrated,
There is so much fun to be had at
prior to the kickoff of the scheduled TV
the Tri-Valley school district – there have Tiffany Pattison.
we’ve had some people use the mix- and written its storied past. ly items range from $11 to $165 de- checkpoints for the 5K and 10K
the Education of Yesterday Farm Show.
been hundreds of Scottie student-ath- On Friday night, Oct. 6 – in front of vs Philo football game, bringing the to- The Captain Bryant Grist Mill will be
ing bowls as watering bowls for big Pet feeders are priced at $15 to pending on the item.
letes compete in interscholastic com- a jam-packed house at Jack Anderson tal number of inductees of Scottie ath- race. Additionally, The Friends of
dogs. So, we have lots of different $22 for a paint-your-own, and orna-
Pet feeders are offered year-round
open with a large farm toy display on the
petition whose sustained performances Stadium in Dresden on the TVHS cam- letic giants to 60. second and third floors, live equipment
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