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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. […]

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 […]