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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. […]

NEWCOMERSTOWN – A Dog Road house is a total loss after a late morning fire Tuesday, but nobody was hurt. Newcomerstown Fire Chief Jeff Parks says crews responded to a garage fire that had spread to the attached home in the 15000 block of Dog Road SW just after 11:30 […]

DOVER – The city’s mayor says the city’s power plant is saving its residents money on their electric bills. Shane Gunnoe says having a city-owned electricity supplier has kept rates down despite inflation. “Due to increased plant performance and efficiency, the city of Dover’s residential customers actually have seen their […]

DOVER – It’s out with the old and in with the new at city offices. Dover is auctioning off some well-used items and trading in some old police handguns while welcoming a few new vehicles and preparing to move City Hall. The items being auctioned off through govdeals.com include old […]

DOVER – The city will soon welcome a pair of new housing developments and more than 60 new homes. Groundbreaking for the 30-home Crimson Cove subdivision in north Dover was Friday. Dover Mayor Shane Gunnoe says Lawver Homes has all the necessary approvals to begin construction off East Ohio Avenue […]

DOVER – A Dover High School graduate won a Grammy this past weekend. Josh Quillen, 45, a 1998 Dover grad, won the award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance as part of the group ‘So Percussion’ for their album “Rectangles and Circumstance” with five-time Grammy winning singer-composer Caroline Shaw. “Just […]

MIDVALE – Area officials and the Tuscarawas County community continue to heap praise on the history-making state champion Indian Valley High School football team. The Braves in December became the first county school to win a football state championship in the OHSAA tournament era that started in 1972. Midvale Village […]