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NEW PHILADELPHIA – The Tuscarawas County Board of Elections has a new director and board chairman. At its biennial organizational meeting Thursday, the board opted for new leadership, replacing Democrat Gail Garbrandt as director with Republic Brian Swartzwelder, previously the deputy director. The Board also tabbed Democrat Mark Waltz as […]

GNADENHUTTEN – An in-home camera system might have saved a house and the pets inside from a Wednesday morning fire near Gnaddenhutten. Arrowhead Joint Fire District Chief Steven Wright says the homeowner received a notification on their cell phone from their camera system. She saw smoke and flames, and heard […]

DOVER – City officials are getting ready for the change of seasons – from snow plowing season to construction season. Mayor Shane Gunnoe says the city is ordering its last shipment of road salt, and that 1,000 tons should last the rest of this winter and well into the next […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – The municipal court building in New Philadelphia is in bad shape, and its administrators are asking the city for $300,000 to help fix it up. Court Administrator Judith Dzigiel used words like antiquated and abysmal as she described deteriorating floors, ceilings, stairs and heating units in the […]

NEWCOMERSTOWN – All of the animals made it out of an Oxford Township barn before it burned to the ground early Thursday morning. Chief Jeff Parks says the call came in just after 3:30 a.m. from the 13000 block of River Road Southwest. He says the barn was fully engulfed […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – The State Highway Patrol responded to two crashes on I-77 in Tuscarawas County on Wednesday. The first happened just before 2 p.m. in Dover. New Philadelphia Post Sgt. Bill Bower says the driver of a pickup truck carelessly merged onto I-77 South, forcing a car off the […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – A man scheduled to go on trial this week for allegedly biting a Dover police officer missed his trial date. Court records indicate 47-year-old Jason Holt was released on his own recognizance in October after pleaded not guilty to felony assault and trespassing, and misdemeanor charges of […]

BOWERSTON – The Conotton Valley School Board is scheduled to decide on Thursday if the Rockets will have a track and field season this spring. Superintendent John Zucal says the state asked the district to reconsider offering track and field, golf and wrestling after a performance review showed the costs […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – The grand jury has indicted a 24-year-old New Philadelphia man for attempted murder months after police accused him of ramming his pickup truck into a man riding a bicycle. Quintin Sarver faces the first-degree felony charge and a second-degree felonious assault charge for the Sept. 6 incident. […]