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DOVER – The city is the recipient of a $1.8 million grant for water infrastructure improvements to accommodate future growth on the city’s north side. The money comes from a U.S. Department of Commerce program aimed at helping create jobs and expand businesses. Dover Mayor Shane Gunnoe says the funds […]

DOVER – The city is making financial arrangements to support a new housing development on the north side of the city. Lawver Homes plans to build about 30 single family homes and about 50 condos on 33 acres along St. Peters Church Road near the Dover Burial Cemetery. This week […]

DOVER – The city’s electric utility recently earned national recognition for keeping the lights on. The American Public Power Association awarded Dover Light and Power its Certificate of Excellence in Reliability for 2025. The award recognizes public utilities that respond quickly to power outages. “This honor highlights the hard work […]

DOVER – City officials are hoping to get $2 million in federal funding so they can extend sanitary sewer lines to residents north of the city limits who rely on aging septic systems. Mayor Shane Gunnoe says Congressman Mike Rulli has recommended the grant. Now the city is waiting to […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – A 46-year-old Bolivar man and a 37-year-old New Philadelphia woman are in jail as co-defendants in a grand jury indictment involving the trafficking, prostitution and rape of a 13-year-old. David Harper faces seven felony counts, including rape. Elsie Bihlman faces six felony counts, including trafficking in persons, […]

DOVER – City officials celebrated Autism Acceptance Month on Monday with a Mayoral proclamation and a rousing speech from a Challenger Baseball League representative. First, Mayor Shane Gunnoe welcomed players and parents from Tuscarawas County Challenger Baseball, a league that includes players with special needs of all ages. He read […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – A half dozen Tuscarawas County roads that flood every spring are flooding again. Tuscarawas County Engineer Doug Bachman announced six road closures Monday morning because of high water. Those roads are Smokey Lane, Winklepleck and Golf Course roads in Sugarcreek, and Deuber, Sandyville and Somerdale roads in […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – A New Philadelphia man has pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide and other charges stemming from an August crash that killed a passenger in the car he was driving while intoxicated. Janesh Cabrera-Vargas, 37,  agreed to the plea deal on Monday, the day before a scheduled jury […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – A Tuscarawas County robbery suspect who was on the run for five years will serve four years in prison for stealing a car and a gun back in June 2020. Nicholas Bosna, 35, in February pleaded guilty to robbery, grand theft of a motor vehicle, grand theft […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – Uhrichsville’s former mayor will be barred from serving in public office for seven years but avoided a permanent ban by pleading guilty to lesser charges eight months after the Tuscarawas County Grand Jury indicted him for theft in office. Mark Haney, who was Uhrichsville’s mayor from 2019 […]