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NEW PHILADELPHIA – Walmart on Blue Bell Drive was evacuated for about two hours on Wednesday after a bomb threat was found scrawled in a women’s restroom. Police and a bomb-detection K9 from Canton conducted a sweep of the store and found nothing suspicious. The report came in at 10:10 […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – Five community leaders will be honored in June as the latest recipients of the Zeisberger Heckewelder awards. For 45 years, this annual Tuscarawas County tradition has recognized exemplary citizens with the award named for the 18th-century missionaries who founded Schoenbrunn Village. This year’s winners are Rita McPeak […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – The School District has unveiled a conceptual rendering of what a new single campus could look like if voter approve an income tax increase next week. Issue 1 on the May 5 ballot is a 1.5 percent earned income tax to fund the construction of new schools. […]

DOVER – National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is Saturday. Locally, unused and unwanted medication can be dropped off confidentially from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Cleveland Clinic Union Hospital and Trinity Health System Twin City Medical Center. Jeff Neidig with Empower Tusc say that agency promotes the event […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – A decades-old case in Tuscarawas County has been solved thanks to new DNA technology. The Tuscarawas County Sheriff’s Office says investigators have identified dismembered human remains that were found in 1998 in two suitcases in Dover and Jefferson Townships. Using advanced DNA testing, they have determined the […]

DOVER – City officials defended tax incentives they have used to attract businesses and developers after being challenged by a School Board member Monday. Brian Hanner, who said he was speaking in a personal capacity and not as a School Board member, asked Council to find a way to support […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – The man who beat a Dover gas station clerk with a hammer back in 2024 will spend 10 to 15 years in prison for the violent, bloody attack. Judge Michael Ernest on Tuesday sentenced 39-year-old John McNutt for attempted murder. He said McNutt hit the clerk 16 […]

NEW PHILADEPHIA – Drivers heading south toward Newcomerstown should plan for delays next week on I-77. On Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., crews will be working to remove loose rocks along the highway. The goal is to scale back the area affected by a rockfall in […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – Power was out for nearly 400 customers, including those in the busy Blue Bell Drive business, for about an hour and a half Friday afternoon. According to AEP officials, “there was a transformer outage in a substation serving the New Philadelphia area. Crews continue to investigate the […]

DOVER – The Dover City School District is tearing down buildings near the middle school to make way for expansion, but what that will look like and how it will be funded is unclear. By Friday morning, the former East of Chicago Pizza on North Wooster Avenue was a pile […]