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Village of Millersburg exploring recycling, trash hauling changes

  • March 4, 2010
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Trash and recycling was first on the list of topics discussed during a meeting Thursday, Feb. 25, with Millersburg Village administrator Kevin Brooks and the Holmes County commissioners in the commissioner’s meeting room. Brooks stopped by to keep the commissioners apprised of the village’s pursuit of rebidding the recycling and trash hauling contract in Millersburg. The current contract with...

Prevention Coalition focused on improving county’s third-place health ranking

  • March 4, 2010
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Holmes County is a healthy place to live. You don’t have to ask the people who live here, because the numbers in a recent national survey from the University of Wisconsin bear it out. In the state of Ohio, Holmes County was ranked the third healthiest county in the county health ranking Mobilization Action Toward Community Health (MATCH). What the county does with that bit of news, and the steps...

Walnut Creek wastewater project ready; Mother Nature isn’t

  • March 4, 2010
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Everything needed for the Walnut Creek wastewater treatment expansion to begin is in place, including the issuance and sale of bonds. Now all the county needs is for Old Man Winter to cooperate. With Wenger Excavating of Dalton ready to move on the new Walnut Creek wastewater treatment facility, the expansion project is in waiting mode, needing only a break in the weather to get under...

Parker researching feasibility of new towers for county

  • March 4, 2010
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If Erik Parker, the Holmes County Geographic Information System director, gets his wish, the people of Holmes County might well have an improved broadband capability someday soon. Parker met with the Holmes County commissioners Thursday, Feb. 25, to talk about the possibility of exploring the purchase of a pair of towers for the county to improve its broadband capabilities. The county is...

Commissioners exploring possible suitors to take over landfill operation

  • March 4, 2010
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For the better part of two years, the Holmes County commissioners have been saddled with one piece of bad news after another concerning the Holmes County landfill. Closed for nearly a year, and bogged down in litigation with former landfill operator Frank Laskey Jr. of World Resources, as well as with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which fined the county $85,000, it’s easy to...

Library checking out ‘community value’ as levy looms

  • March 4, 2010
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As hours continue to be trimmed, programs slowly disappear, positions go by the wayside and the possibility of a number of branch libraries being shut down, the Holmes County District Public Library stands at a crossroads it would rather not be at. However, following state cuts, to the point that the library has lost one third of its funding, from state tax dollars through the Public Library Fund...

Author of Through the Glorieta Pass to present reading of her work Poet Lavonne Adams to present at the College of Wooster on March 25

  • March 4, 2010
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Poet Lavonne Adams, a lecturer at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, will give a reading of her work on Thursday, March 25, at the College of Wooster. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Room 244 of Kauke Hall (400 E. University St.) at 4 p.m. Adams’s presentation will focus on her collection of poetry, Through the Glorieta Pass (Pearl Editions, 2009),...

HEAP still offering assistance with heating expenses

  • March 4, 2010
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The Kno-Ho-Co-Ashland Community Action Commission’s Emergency HEAP program is still in progress. Emergency HEAP is a federally funded program administered by the Ohio Department of Development’s Office of Community Services, which provides financial assistance to low-income households that are threatened with disconnection from their heating source, or have already had service disconnected...

OBITUARY

  • March 4, 2010
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Nelson D. Yoder, 77, of Mt. Eaton, died Feb. 23, 2010, at Aultman Hospital, Canton, following a two-week illness. Nelson was born Jan. 31, 1933, near Mt. Hope, to the late Dan J. and Alta Yoder. He lived most of his life in Mt. Eaton and retired in 1999 as a truck driver for Motor Freight, Strasburg. He was a member of Fairlawn Mennonite Church, Apple Creek, the ANA, Chauffer’s Badge Collectors...

OBITUARY

  • March 4, 2010
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Margaret I. Woodward, 88, formerly of Creston, died Feb. 24, 2010, at Smithville-Western Care Center, Wooster, following a period of declining health. Margaret was born Nov. 19, 1921, in Akron, to the late Clyde and Nellie Shaffer, and made her home in Creston most of her life. She had worked at the former Good’s Sale Barn, Creston, and in the lunchroom at the Creston school. She was a member of...