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NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Aug. 28, 2023) – The Tuscarawas County Democratic Central Committee has an elected position to fill. The committee will be appointing someone to replace Engineer Joe Bachman, who’s retiring on September 30th after 35 years of overseeing road and bridge maintenance in the county. “I will submit […]

MALVERN (WJER) (Aug. 25, 2023) – History will come to life the next two weekends at the Great Trail Bison Reserve. Hundreds of costumed re-enactors and merchants have set up camp there for the 45th installment of the Great Trail Festival. Founder Gary Juwell says it’s a massive celebration of […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Aug. 24, 2023) – The local arm of the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization is growing. East Central Ohio Chapter President and CEO Beverly Pearch says their service area now includes Harrison County, where they’re offering school and community-based mentoring along with a transitional program called Big […]

DOVER (WJER) (Aug. 23, 2023) – The Dover Library is getting back the more than 20 thousand dollars that a scammer siphoned from its bank account.  Someone apparently produced five counterfeit checks with the library’s account information and cashed them in Florida. Director Jim Gill says the library’s fiscal officer […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (Aug. 22, 2023) – Tuscarawas County leaders have been showing their support for local substance use recovery efforts.  The commissioners on Monday issued two county-wide proclamations – one declaring Thursday, August 31st, National Overdose Awareness Day and the other acknowledging National Recovery Month in September. Advocates including […]

DOVER – A recent court filing led to some tension at Dover’s City Council meeting Monday. Dover Chemical is seeking sanctions against the city and Law Director Doug O’Meara in the latest chapter in a nearly three-year legal dispute over an electric surcharge penalty. Councilman Bob Mueller Monday was disappointed […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA – A 27-year-old Barberton woman spent the weekend in the Tuscarawas County Jail after reportedly trying to speed through the county under the influence and then assaulting a corrections officer. A sheriff’s deputy initially pulled her over for going 105 miles per hour on I-77 through New Philadelphia […]

COLUMBUS – The State Auditor’s office Monday announced the grand jury indictments of a former Bolivar police officer and the owner of a Strasburg gun shop related to what a press release described as an alleged scheme involving the purchase and resale of ammunition. State Auditor Keith Faber in a […]

LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP (WJER) (Aug. 18, 2023) – The State Highway Patrol says a Canton man has died following a single vehicle crash on I-77 just north of the Bolivar exit. The victim was 51-year-old Gary Powell. Troopers say Powell’s 2019 Ford F250 pickup truck was traveling northbound on I-77 when […]