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11/18/13 Sophomore is suspect in Nov. 11 bomb threat

SUMMARY: Threat left in marker in boy's restroom A West Holmes High School sophomore has been identified as a suspect in a Monday Nov. 11 bomb threat. The Holmes County Sheriff’s office reports that a 15-year-old male student is allegedly the individual who left a bomb threat in a restroom at West Holmes High School. According to sheriff’s reports, the bomb threat was reported at approximately...

bubble girl

There was a time in Kait Turshen’s life when she ate little more than blueberries and plain hamburger. Everything else, she said, seemed to make her feel sick: corn, wheat, chicken, eggs, nuts, beans, soy. What started as a mild reaction to soy while a college student had turned into a food fiasco for Turshen, a Wooster native and graduate of Wooster High School and The College of Wooster. While...

Student Creativity Encouraged in S.T.E.M. Classes

Freedom to question, create, fail, and try again is the modus operandi in Derek Bode’s hands-on classes and clubs at Wooster High School. At a recent Robotics Club meeting, Nathan Yost and Cody Miller were found tinkering in Bode’s shop-type classroom which houses courses in Computer Aided Design, Computer Applications, Foundations of Technology, Graphics, and Principles of Technology. Yost,...

COW art exhibit

The College of Wooster Art Museum (CWAM) will present “The Performative in African Art,” an exhibition curated by students in Kara Morrow’s African Art class, through Dec. 6 in Ebert Art Center, 1220 Beall Ave. The exhibition, which is associated with this year’s Wooster Forum (titled “Facing RACE”), features more than 25 objects from the Art Museum’s Permanent Collection. The objects fall...

COL tami 1118

It’s been 50 years and you can still hear the shots. One Two Three And America’s 35th President was dead, shot right in front of his wife and a smattering of Texans on a section of a motorcade route that even the local police didn’t think was going to merit much effort to control. Even if you weren’t born yet (and I wasn’t), you still feel the horror, the outrage. One minute, John F. Kennedy...

hettinger lecture at COW

Madonna Hettinger, professor of history at The College of Wooster, will present “A Long Walk with Demons and Ghosts: 500 Miles on Foot on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela” at the Faculty at Large lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 19, at 11 a.m. in Lean Lecture Room of Wishart Hall, 303 E. University St. Admission is free and open to the public. Hettinger will share insights from her recent research...

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chayse and her wig

Christy Firebaugh knew it was no ordinary haircut. In her salon chair was 4-year-old Chayse Tankersley, who had relented to having her head shaved just a few weeks into her chemotherapy treatments. Her blonde hair was falling out in clumps as a side effect of the treatments and she would soon be starting preschool. Firebaugh, a licensed cosmetologist at Village Hairworks in Shreve, remembers...

Birth Center receives hospital association foundation award

The Aultman Orrville Family Birth Center has received the David Hendershot Rural Health Promotion Award from the Ohio Hospital Association Foundation of Healthy Communities. Each year, the David Hendershot Rural Health Promotion Award recognizes a small, rural hospital in Ohio that demonstrates a commitment to promoting a healthy community. The Family Birth Center of Aultman Orrville has been...
Bomb threat at West Holmes High School, students and faculty safe

Bomb threat at West Holmes High School, students and faculty safe

West Holmes High School Students were evacuated to the middle school Monday, Nov. 11 after a bomb threat was found at the high school. The district notified parents via text message that all students and faculty are safe and ran an alert on its website. The threat appears to have been made in a note. No further information is available at this time. The threat comes two weeks after a bomb threat...