Local News

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (April 22, 2024) – The State Highway Patrol has been trying to learn why a Dayton area man had been riding a bicycle on I-77 near Bolivar Friday night when he was fatally struck. The victim was 44-year-old Bartholomew Snow of Xenia. New Philadelphia Post Sgt. Clinton […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (April 19, 2024) – The former Bolivar police officer convicted of telecommunications fraud for his role in an ammunition resale scheme is beginning his punishment after sharing his side of the story. Jeffrey Stearns of Port Washington will spend five years on probation and must complete 150 […]

DOVER (WJER) (April 19, 2024) – The city has hired Bob Everett as its part-time director of public safety, Mayor Shane Gunnoe announced Friday afternoon. “Bob has a lengthy record of public service and I have no doubt he will do the best he can, working with the Police and […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (April 19, 2024) – Some of the area’s best-known historical sites and non-profit headquarters are looking even better because of the United Way of Tuscarawas County’s annual Day of Caring today. The agency enlisted about 175 volunteers from 21 local companies and organizations to perform spring cleaning […]

FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP (WJER) (April 19, 2024) – A couple has to rebuild their chimney after lightning struck it Wednesday afternoon, but they’re grateful that’s the worst of it. Nancy Cox says she and her husband Ben were watching the news in their living room on Columbia Road Northwest between Dover […]

NEW PHILADELPHIA (WJER) (April 18, 2024) – The director of the Noah’s Hope Child Advocacy Center is thanking everyone who supported their first-ever fundraising gala. Mandy Willet says last Saturday’s ‘We Battle for Kids’ event at the Kent Tusc Performing Arts Center ended up bringing in around $85,000  for the […]

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 […]