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5/10/11 AEP to replace street lights

SUMMARY: Four of 12 to be replaced, rest on "as-needed" schedule Only a few of a dozen street lights identified as being in need of replacement on the west end of Millersburg will be replaced. Village Administrator Kevin Brooks informed Millersburg Village Council Monday May 9 that four light poles will be replaced by American Electric Power over the next few weeks. The poles are part of a...

Twin City completes sale to Franciscan Services Corporation

Twin City Hospital has announced the successful completion of the sale of the hospital to Franciscan Services Corporation. Under the terms of the final purchase agreement, as approved during bankruptcy proceedings held on Monday, May 9, Franciscan Services Corporation (FSC) has purchased Twin City Hospital. The hospital will continue to operate as a 25-bed critical access hospital, but will now...
Wooster native appointed judge in Summit County

Wooster native appointed judge in Summit County

Akron attorney Tamara A. O’Brien took the bench as a judge in the Summit County Court of Common Pleas, General Division, after her appointment April 1 by Gov. John R. Kasich. O’Brien, who took office April 1, must run in November 2012 in order to serve out the remainder of the term ending Jan. 1, 2015. She replaces Judge Brenda Burnham Unruh, who retired Feb. 28, and died about two weeks later,...

Stutzman army records requested by defense

Defense attorneys representing a Navarre man charged with murdering his parents have requested psychological reports from his time in the U.S. Army. Dan Lutz, Wayne County prosecuting attorney, said Friday, May 6, that military medical records for Rodney Stutzman, 31, of 17559 Harrison Road, will be included in a psychological evaluation requested by his defense attorneys. The records date from...
Civil War reenactors muster on Historical Society grounds

Civil War reenactors muster on Historical Society grounds

The front lawn of the historic Beall House on the campus of the Wayne County Historical Society was transformed into a Union camp May 7 and 8 as the society hosted a Civil War encampment to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the War Between the States. For two days reenactors from the 4th and 41st Ohio Volunteer Infantry recreated the life of a typical Civil War soldier. Living in period...

Underage drinking is unsafe, unhealthy, unacceptable

The Tuscarawas County commissioners will join the Tuscarawas County Family and Children First Council, Personal and Family Counseling Services, and 2011 campaign spokesperson, and national sports icon, Clark Kellogg to spread the word: Parents Who Host, Lose The Most: Don’t be a party to teenage drinking. Each day, approximately 8,000 youth across the nation will take their first drink of...
Love Center celebrates quarter century of feeding the hungry, physically and spiritually

Love Center celebrates quarter century of feeding the hungry, physically and spiritually

“The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted. It belongs to the brave...” On January 26, 1986, U.S. President Ronald Reagan uttered those words to school children across the nation following the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia, a disaster in which the lives of seven astronauts were lost, and a nation mourned. While not as heralded as that fateful moment, in Holmes County around...
$100? $200? Answer to Knights woes could be priceless after falling in Sectional opener

$100? $200? Answer to Knights woes could be priceless after falling in Sectional opener

After committing three defensive miscues, gift-wrapping three unearned runs and sending River View back to Warsaw with a 6-5 win back on April 15, second-year West Holmes head baseball coach Kurt McDowell pondered what he could do to keep his team from continually digging itself into holes it couldn't climb out of."That's the $100 question," he said back then.Twenty-five days later McDowell might...
Gibson's calculated risk pays off in tournament win

Gibson's calculated risk pays off in tournament win

Hiland pulled off a calculated risk in its New Philadelphia Division IV Sectional tournament opener with an 11-0 win over Conotton Valley, and with it came a bounty of rewards.After unanimously grabbing the No. 1 seed in the Sectional tournament, head coach Tom Gibson elected to forego an opening round bye, instead opting to play in a first round game against whatever opponent would have the...

Centennial sale at Keim Lumber a success

The Keim Lumber centennial anniversary sale, held April 13-16, set several new records. The Monday before the sale is always a busy time for Keim’s switchboard personnel. This year was no different, with a new record of more than 1,740 incoming phone calls for one day. Each day of the sale saw an increase in the number of customers coming through the doors. Robbie Keim, vice president of Keim...