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DENNISON (WJER) (June 2, 2023) – The annual Dennison Railroad Festival kicks into high gear today with its first full day of activities downtown. The festival ran in just the evenings its first two days Wednesday and Thursday. But that changes today, with the midway opening at noon. Festival Board […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (June 1, 2023) – Firefighters say no one was injured in a late-morning blaze at the Quaker Mobile Home Park that was originally called in as a burn complaint. New Philadelphia Fire Captain Bert Snyder says they decided to treat the call as a working structure fire, […]

DENNISON (WJER) (June 1, 2023) – Ninety years of flood reduction and recreational history for the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District is now on display for the public’s viewing. That’s the theme of a new exhibit filling a train car at the Dennison Railroad Depot Museum, a mother-son collaboration between Museum […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (May 31, 2023) – Tuscarawas County’s JFS office is extending a helping hand to the 75 people whose lives were upended by Sunday’s fire at the Jaycee Village apartments. Eligibility Referral Supervisor Debbie Whitney says the agency has funding available through its Prevention, Retention, and Contingency program […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (May 31, 2023) – The State Highway Patrol says a 29-year-old Newcomerstown man driving a Chevy Impala suffered non-life-threatening injuries in a head-on crash with a dump truck this morning. It happened in the 2800 block of Stonecreek Road Southwest between New Philadelphia and Stone Creek just […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – (WJER) (May 31, 2023) New Philadelphia Rotary Club members have the community now awaiting further improvements at Tuscora Park. At the Ferris wheel re-opening ceremony where they showed off the new orange gondolas that are handicap accessible, Rotarian and Rainbow Connection board member Brian Flood announced more […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (May 30, 2023) – City leaders are celebrating the Ferris wheel’s return to operation at Tuscora Park. A ceremony was held there Sunday to acknowledge the New Philadelphia Rotary Club, RTY, and other groups responsible for the $250,000 in fundraising and renovation work to get the wheel […]

DOVER (WJER) (May 30, 2023) – Area residents took a break from cookouts and pool time to acknowledge the true meaning of Memorial Day over the extended weekend. Dover’s service included featured speaker Ohio District 10 American Legion Post Commander Doug Russell. “Let us take this time to remember and […]

UHRICHSVILLE (WJER) (May 30, 2023) – Firefighters say the investigation continues into the cause of the weekend fire that displaced 75 residents at the Jaycee Village apartments. Someone called 9-1-1 reporting the fire at the 52-unit apartment complex at 200 Claymont Drive about 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Fire Chief Judd Edwards […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (May 26, 2023) – The man who got shot by sheriff’s deputies during an hours-long standoff near Newcomerstown last summer is guilty of attempted murder, felonious assault, and possessing a homemade pipe bomb. Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court Judge Michael Ernest made the finding Friday after 37-year-old […]