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NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (March 3, 2022) – The Tuscarawas County Courthouse will be illuminated in the colors of the Ukrainian flag this weekend in support of those whose lives have been upended by the Russian invasion.  The county commissioners ordered the blue and yellow light display which will begin at […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (March 2, 2022) – A Ukrainian teen who has been spending her junior year at Tuscarawas Central Catholic is describing the days since the Russian military invaded the nation as the worst she has ever experienced. 17-year-old Anastasia Didenko says her parents and younger sister are safe […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (March 2, 2022) – A domestic violence case out of Uhrichsville has resulted in a felony conviction after taking an unusual route through the justice system.  50-year-old Michael Derush appeared in Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court Tuesday, pleading no contest to a bill of information charging him […]

COLUMBUS (WJER) (March 2, 2022) – The Ohio History Connection is involving Tuscarawas County in its annual celebration of Ohio’s founding as well as its planning for an upcoming national milestone. The organization held a Statehood Day event at the Ohio Statehouse Tuesday to reflect on the state’s diverse past […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (March 1, 2022) – Tuscarawas Central Catholic students have been showing their support for a Ukrainian classmate whose relatives and friends and among the millions displaced by the Russian invasion. Junior-Senior High School Principal Jenn Calvo says the seniors organized a spirit day to show their solidarity […]

DOVER (WJER) (Mar. 1, 2022) – The Tuscarawas County Literacy Coalition will soon begin mapping out a schedule for its newest One Book, One Community selection. The coalition recently announced the program that creates a shared reading experience for participants will revolve around ‘Kent State’ by Deborah Wiles this year. […]

DENNISON (WJER) (Feb. 28, 2022) – Village officials are getting another estimate to resurface some of the alleys downtown this year. Mayor Greg DiDonato says the ones they’re looking at are by CVS, around the girls’ softball fields, and behind the village’s Grant Street headquarters.   “I don’t know when that […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (Feb. 28, 2022) – The East Central Ohio Educational Service Center (ECOESC) is announcing the winners of the annual Young Authors & Illustrators Conference and Competition hosted by Kent State Tuscarawas on February 25. The conference was open to fifth and ninth graders in school districts in Tuscarawas […]

DOVER (WJER) (Feb. 28, 2022) – Two area civic clubs are having to postpone their Spring Health Check fundraiser because of a global shortage of blood collection tubes. The event to benefit the efforts of the New Philadelphia Rotary and Dover-New Phila Kiwanis clubs had been scheduled to take place […]

Dover (WJER) (Feb. 28, 2022) – Firefighters responded to a couple of calls Saturday that didn’t end up requiring much time on the scene. Captain Mike Mossor says the first was for an 8×12-foot shed being used as a chicken coop that caught fire just after 7 a.m. in the […]