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LAWRENCE TWP (WJER) (April 18, 2024) – The local ODOT office is promoting work zone safety with a visual reminder of what can happen if you don’t slow down and pay attention.  Spokesperson Lauren Borell says they’re changing things up with a National Workzone Awareness Week display highlighting the fact […]

DOVER (WJER) (April 18, 2024) – The city’s warm-weather construction projects are set to begin soon, including $1.1 million in street paving. Service Director Dave Douglas says that’s most the city has spent on paving in a year. Most of the work will be in the north and northwest part […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (April 17, 2024) – Union employees at Gradall are striking around the clock for higher pay increases and more stable health insurance costs. That’s according to union leaders with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) Local 1285. The strike started Monday morning after the […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (April 17, 2024) – A Gnadenhutten woman has admitted to embezzling more than $41,000 from a church she used to work for.  Elizabeth Pasquinielli appeared in Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court last week and pleaded guilty to a bill of information charging her with grand theft, bypassing […]

UHRICHSVILLE (WJER) (April 17, 2024) – Part of Trenton Avenue will be closed for road work beginning Wednesday. ODOT is overseeing a more than $750,000 storm sewer replacement and repaving project between South Jay and Herrick streets and awarded the city a grant covering more than 80 percent of the […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (April 11, 2024) – The city of Dover has asked a judge to throw out former Mayor Richard Homrighausen’s appeal and force him to pay the city $106,157.06 in restitution. Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Court Judge Michael Ernest in February ordered Homrighausen to reimburse the city that […]

DOVER (WJER) (April 16, 2024) – As some residents worry over potential flooding from a new housing subdivision on the north side of town, city officials are investigating flooding complaints related to a different recently-added development. The Dover Land Development Co. and developer Dennis Grech have built several duplexes and […]

BOLIVAR (WJER) (April 11, 2024) – Authorities have identified the gas odor people were smelling and they say it is harmless. However, Bolivar Fire Chief Shawn Lynch says residents should still call in if they’re smelling it in their homes or businesses. He says even if just one out of […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (April 11, 2024) – City officials have been looking forward to connecting the Kent State Tuscarawas campus to the downtown area via a bike path alongside East High Avenue. Not everyone in that neighborhood is, though. Service Director Ron McAbier says Council OK’d the path in 2021, […]

DOVER TWP (WJER) (April 16, 2024) – The New Philadelphia Highway Patrol Post is investigating a messy semi-truck crash on I-77 northbound that killed the driver.  Lt. Johnnie Maier says it happened just after 10:30 am just south of the Strasburg exit when the northbound truck drifted off the right […]