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DOVER (WJER) (Jan. 4, 2022) – Authorities executed a search warrant at city hall Monday, focusing on the contents of a two-drawer wooden cabinet behind the desk of former administrative assistant Eva Newsome. It was filed by State Auditor Keith Faber’s office represented by Fraud Investigator Kevin Monnolly and signed […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Jan. 4, 2022) – Tuscarawas County leaders are planning to spend around a quarter-million dollars on a body-worn camera system for the sheriff’s office. The purchase is among the capital improvements included in the county’s 2022 budget that the county commissioners approved before Christmas. Sheriff Orvis Campbell […]

DOVER (WJER) (Jan. 4, 2022) – Tuscarawas County YMCA officials are hoping to see donations to the organization’s yearly fundraising campaign return to their pre-pandemic in the new year. Administrative Assistant Jenny Dallas says their 2021 campaign fell about $3,000 shy of its $85,000 goal. She attributes the shortfall to […]

DENNISON (WJER) (Jan. 3, 2022) – Firefighters say nobody was injured in a New Year’s Day fire at a private club where a handful of people gathered to watch the Rose Bowl earlier in the day. Chief Dave McConnell says firefighters responded to the Cotton Club, formerly the Clay Union […]

DOVER (WJER) (Jan. 3, 2021) – Volunteer efforts to build a new veterans’ monument on the square have far exceeded goals and expectations. Councilman Greg Bair says $42,000 has been raised, with another $20,000 in outstanding pledges, to build a lasting tribute to all those who have served or are […]

DOVER (WJER) (Jan. 3, 2021) – A recent drug bust could net the offenders a harsher sentence because the house is within 1,000 feet of South Elementary School. Tuscarawas County Sheriff’s Detective Cole Morris says the L.E.A.D. Drug Task Force, sheriff’s office, and Dover police executed a search warrant at […]