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021312 Spelling success

Summary: It took over 90 minutes and hundreds of words but one Wayne County student emerged as champion of the 56th Annual Wayne County Spelling Bee. “Shrapnel. S-h-r-a-p-n-e-l. Shrapnel.” With those words Edgewood Middle School seventh grader Nathaniel Cornelius took the championship of the 56th annual Wayne County Spelling Bee on Jan. 30 at the Wooster High School Performing Arts...
Dining with Diabetes scheduled

Dining with Diabetes scheduled

The Ohio State University Extension office in Tuscarawas County will be presenting a Dining with Diabetes program beginning Monday, Feb. 27, from 6-8 p.m. at Broadway United Methodist Church in New Philadelphia. Dining with Diabetes classes will be held once a week for three weeks with a follow-up class scheduled three months after the program ends. The program is open to those with diabetes and...
Veterans get opportunity to speak directly to VA

Veterans get opportunity to speak directly to VA

Military veterans have faithfully served their country, and are well deserving of the benefits they receive from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Unfortunately, there are many veterans who struggle with the process that must be gone through to receive these benefits, or who may be unaware of what services are available for them. The Tuscarawas County Veterans Service Office in New...
Denham celebrates 89th birthday

Denham celebrates 89th birthday

Helen Denham will celebrate her 89th birthday on Sunday, Feb. 19. She is being honored with a card shower. Helen (Holleyoak) Denham is a 1940 graduate of New Philadelphia High School. She is retired after being a payroll accounting analyst for Joy Manufacturing for over 30 years. She is a lifelong member of Community of Christ church and supporter of New Philadelphia Quaker sports...
Barrington, Reed charged by grand jury

Barrington, Reed charged by grand jury

The Wayne County grand jury on Friday, Feb. 3 handed down charges of aggravated murder and attempted murder stemming from two separate incidents that occurred in Wooster. Charges of aggravated murder and murder were filed against Lashaun Reed, 23, 716 Quinby Ave., Apt. D, Wooster. The aggravated murder charge is an unclassified felony and carries a sentence of life in prison without parole. Both...
Musicians, actors and more sought for annual Relay for Life Revue

Musicians, actors and more sought for annual Relay for Life Revue

Calling all talent! Musicians, dancers, comedy acts, singers and dramatic or specialty acts are being sought for the 2012 Relay Revue, a yearly entertainment benefit to raise funds for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life campaign. All proceeds from the benefit, which will be held March 10, at 7 p.m., in the Little Theatre of Tuscarawas County, will go for cancer research, patient...
Tuscarawas County Veterans Service Office providing opportunity to speak with VA

Tuscarawas County Veterans Service Office providing opportunity to speak with VA

By Jennifer Kneuss Military veterans have faithfully served their country, and are well deserving of the benefits they receive from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Unfortunately, there are many veterans who struggle with the process that must be gone through to receive these benefits, or who may be unaware of what services are available for them. The Tuscarawas County Veterans Service...
Crossroads Hospice offers many benefits, often covered by insurance

Crossroads Hospice offers many benefits, often covered by insurance

Two studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggest that a surprising number of elderly Americans in nursing homes should have hospice care instead of aggressive treatment. Unfortunately, a large number of people who are eligible for hospice don’t take advantage of it. The reason? They have no idea that most hospices take the financial strain off of patients and family...
Black History Month tribute at Toland-Herzig

Black History Month tribute at Toland-Herzig

Toland-Herzig’s Famous Endings Museum, located within the Toland-Herzig Funeral Home & Crematory, 803 N. Wooster Ave., Dover, is celebrating Black History Month with a nearly 200-artifact display. This is the seventh year for the collection to offer a Black History Month tribute. “Black history is more than just black history - it is world history,” noted John Herzig, Toland-Herzig...
Ceremony to be held Feb. 10 to mark donation of Atwood Lake Resort

Ceremony to be held Feb. 10 to mark donation of Atwood Lake Resort

The keys to Atwood Lake Resort and Conference Center will be handed over to the Carroll County commissioners next week. Commissioners will meet at the 104-room resort with officials from the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) Feb. 10, at 11:15 a.m., for a ceremony to sign the documents that finalize the donation of the resort to the commissioners by the MWCD. Other local and state...