4/21/11 Gresser pleads as jury deliberates, gets 10 years in prison
SUMMARY: Sentence is maximum for involuntary manslaughter With a jury still deliberating his case, a Smithville man pleaded guilty Thursday April 21 to causing the death of his 18-month-old daughter. Timothy Gresser, 22, 7934 Five Points Road, pleaded in Wayne County Common Pleas Court to one count of involuntary manslaughter, a first-degree felony. He was sentenced immediately after his plea to...
Dover citizens asked to take part in building advisory committee for new Dover High School construction
Summary: The Dover City Schools Board of Education has made plans to take advantage of 28%, or approximately 9 million dollars, in matching state dollars to construct a new high school building. Now, much is up to the voters. Searching for answers to their questions about a proposed new high school building, Dover citizens turned out in significant numbers to the Dover High auditorium on...Hoping for Healing: Survivors of Sexual Abuse Speak Out
Summary: Do you still have the summary I submitted with the original article? (Italicize this paragraph and place at the top of the article) The subject matter and content of this article is not suitable for children and might be disturbing to some readers. All people in the article live and work in Holmes and Wayne counties, though their names and some details have been changed to protect their...Change in bats impacting numbers throughout all of college baseball
042511 bats Promo: NCAA rule has made a big change in offensive production in college baseball Change in bats impacting numbers throughout all of college baseball By Brian Questel It used the crack of the bat that foresaw something momentous happening. Then it was the ringing ping for nearly three decades. Today, the ear is going to have to recognize something else. The NCAA, to the...
Big swing against Madison is huge for West Holmes tennis
Heading into the 2011 season eighth-year West Holmes head tennis coach Jason Otto knew nobody in the Ohio Cardinal Conference was going to come close to dethroning Lexington as kings of the OCC tennis courts. He also felt that Ashland and Mansfield Madison were the two second-tier teams that would battle for the runners-up spot in the conference, leaving the Knights to fight it out for fourth...
Piecing together the past
Students of all ages headed to the Quad next to Ebert Art Center on the campus of The College of Wooster April 17 to peer into the past through the eyes of archeologists. Visitors to the annual College of Wooster Archeology Day event took part in a wide variety of activities, including learning how to use an atlatl, viewing a demonstration of the flintknapping techniques used by Native...
Fallen soldier comes home for the final time
Summary: Tears mingled with rain as a young fallen soldier returned home to New Philadelphia on Good Friday. Sergeant James Smith came home as dusk fell on April 22, 2011 to flag lined streets and hundreds who stood in the rain to pay their respects to the fallen United States Army soldier. Smith, age 29, died suddenly while on active duty at Fort Campbell, Kentucky on Monday, April 18. The...