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PERRY TOWNSHIP — Election day is just a few weeks away, and Perry Township voters will soon have to decide whether or not to allow the future Muddy Fork Drive Thru to sell alcohol.
A reader of Ashland Source noticed this liquor option vote on the ballot, but could not find any information on the Muddy Fork Drive Thru.
“There is no physical location, no Facebook, no domain name,” they wrote.
That is because right now the drive-through’s future location at 152 U.S. Route 250 East is an empty lot.
Its owners, Theresa Pryor and her daughter Tiffany Earick, have already registered as a business, received a liquor license from the state, gathered petitions for the ballot initiative, and gotten state approval for the shop’s driveway.
The process so far has not been without obstacles, Pryor said.
“This has been an uphill battle. Everything we’ve done we’ve had to redo. The petitions that we went around and did the first time around, we didn’t do them correctly the first time because of the legal size of the paper so we had to start from scratch, do it again, and we only had two weeks and so many days to do it,” Pryor said.
Now, they’re waiting to see if Perry Township voters will let them sell alcohol.
If approved, the owners will get to work with an architect and hope to have the drive-through open in five or six months, Pryor said.
The only alcohol the drive-through will be allowed to sell is beer, but they’ll also offer some grocery items like bread, milk, and chips. Pryor and Earick also have plans to sell fresh pizzas.
The Muddy Fork Drive Through started as a family idea in October 2019 after they noticed there really wasn’t much retail-wise between Ashland and Wooster.
Now, Pryor is hopeful that the people of Perry Township will make her family’s vision a reality.
“Everybody in the township that we’ve talked to for the most part has been on our side, they’ve been very excited about it because there is nothing out here,” she said.
