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DOVER (WJER) (Aug. 15, 2022) – Tuscarawas County YMCA officials have been welcoming an influx of new members thanks to a new partnership with Ohio Job and Family Services. The agency and the Ohio Alliance of YMCAs Foundation recently announced that they’re teaming up to provide free family memberships to […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Aug. 15, 2022) – Firefighters say all turned out well after rescuing a puppy that had ventured into a storm sewer drainpipe. Fire Captain Bert Snyder says a resident came into the station around 10:30 a.m. Sunday to say his 15-week-old German Shepherd got out of the […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Aug. 15, 2022) – Tuscarawas County voting officials are closing out one election and getting ready for another. The elections board is meeting this morning to certify the local results from the Aug. 2 primary, including any valid provisional and mail-in votes that didn’t make it into […]

STRASBURG (WJER) (Aug. 12, 2022)  – Strasburg-Franklin Local Schools officials are about to give families a better look at their planned new sporting complex for student-athletes. Superintendent Vince Lindsey says it will have a basketball and volleyball court, softball nets, a walking track, a weight room, and more. The multi-purpose […]

DENNISON (WJER) (Aug. 12, 2022) – Village firefighters are again asking for the community’s help packing one of their firetrucks with back-to-school essentials. The department’s yearly ‘Fill the Truck’ school supply collection is tomorrow from 10 until noon at the station on Grant Street. Chief Dave McConnell says the items […]

HOLMESVILLE (WJER) (August 11, 2022) – Holmes County authorities believe they’ve caught their cattle rustler. Sheriff Tim Zimmerly says his office has arrested a suspect in the thefts of about eight Black Angus and Holstein heifers that were stolen from at least two cattle fields in the western portion of […]

STRASBURG (WJER) (Aug. 5, 2022) – Medical marijuana businesses wanting to set up in the village now how to go through its planning commission. Council this week approved an ordinance regulating the production and sale of medical-grade cannabis. Mayor Steve Smith says it allows businesses engaging in those activities to […]

COLUMBUS (WJER) (Aug. 10, 2022) – Tuscarawas County United Way officials got to spend time with a living legend at a luncheon celebrating the success of Ohio’s Imagination Library.  President Robin Waltz and Community Relations Director Susan Reidenbach traveled to Columbus Tuesday for the private gathering hosted by Ohio First […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (August 10, 2022) – The case of a man accused of dumping a woman’s body in Goshen Township last October likely will continue for at least the next several weeks after he was assigned a new public defender. Daniel Fitzgerald, 38, formerly of Akron, and his appointed […]

CLAY TOWNSHIP (WJER) (August 8, 2022) – A 64-year-old man died from injuries he sustained after falling off a ladder while using a chainsaw Sunday morning, according to a press release from the Arrowhead Joint Fire District. The man’s name and details regarding injuries are being withheld to protect the […]