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NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Jan. 17, 2023) – The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District will again use its parks and locations to assist with energy production for the region. This time it’s solar power. Spokeswoman Adria Bergeron says the district will partner with IMC Solar for 13 solar energy projects in 2023. […]

DOVER (WJER) (Jan. 17, 2023) – Tuscarawas County Health Department officials say Covid vaccines will remain free for at least another few months. Some reports had indicated Moderna and Pfizer were considering charging up to $130 dollars or so per dose when their government contracts end. But Tuscarawas County Health […]

UHRICHSVILLE (WJER) (Jan. 16, 2023) – The city has reached a tentative agreement with state and federal regulators to resolve citations for illegally dumping material in the Gorley Bottoms wetland area. Mayor Mark Haney announced the development during Thursday’s city council meeting. “The Ohio EPA, Army Corps of Engineers, the […]

DOVER (WJER) (Jan. 16, 2023) – Area civic and spiritual leaders will be honoring a civil rights icon the day after what would have been his 94th birthday.  The Dover First Baptist Church’s yearly tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Junior returns tonight after taking the last two years off […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Jan. 12, 2023) – Tuscarawas County’s Juvenile Court is holding another art scholarship contest for graduating high school seniors. Judge Adam Wilgus says the first one in 2022 went so well that they’re doing it again. “It was very well received. I heard some very positive feedback […]

UHRICHSVILLE (WJER) (January 11, 2023) – The city’s fire chief says a gas company adding a relatively harmless but smelly odorant to natural gas caused a stink in Uhrichsville that was smelled as far away as Dover. Justin Edwards says the Northeast Ohio Gas Corporation was adding methyl mercaptan at […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Jan. 11, 2023) – Businesses and schools around Tuscarawas County are making Friday a dress-down day to raise money for 18 local health and human services programs. That’s when the United Way of Tuscarawas County is holding its 7th-annual Post-Holiday Blues Day fundraiser. Community Relations Director Susan […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Jan. 10, 2023) – It’s a busy but important time for Tusc Against Trafficking. The coalition has been increasing its outreach in the community and on social media during National Human Trafficking Awareness Month here in January. Facilitator Kristie Campbell-Meiser says people sometimes believe that it’s only […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Jan. 9, 2023) – Food assistance recipients will soon be seeing their benefits return to pre-pandemic levels. Tuscarawas County JFS Director David Haverfield says the temporary increase Congress authorized early in the pandemic and extended multiple times is expiring at the end of February.   “I think the […]