Vegetable and fruit growers benefit from producers seminar for those interested in wholesale produce production
Local foods are a hot topic these days. The media touts local foods everywhere you look. Foods produced locally are fresher, are often much tastier, and do not require cross-country transportation to deliver to consumers, thus reducing environmental impact. However, in order to have local foods available, there must be local food producers. Those interested in seeking out their own food sources...Exciting FX – Family Experience – awaits local children and their parents as church launches new outreach for community
Sunday afternoons – at least once each month – will not be boring anymore, if childrens pastor Kevin West and his crew of eighty or so volunteers have anything to say about it. West, who ministers at NewPointe Community Church in Dover, is promising over the top fun, along with sidekick characters Thaddeus, Chenault the Third, Uncle Louie, and of course, the one and only Bubba Joe, as the...1/3/10 Arson suspected in pub fire
By Nick Sabo and Dave Mast FREDERICKSBURGA Sunday night fire at a County Road 192 business may have been set by thieves attempting to cover up a burglary. Holmes County Sheriff Tim Zimmerly said the fire, at the Horse and Harness Pub, 9260 County Road 192, is being investigated as arson after evidence at the scene indicated the fire may have been set deliberately. There was some change and...1/3/10Son charged with murder in Sunday shooting
BIG PRAIRIEA 10-year-old boy was brought before a Holmes County judge Monday/Jan. 3 on a murder charge that alleges he shot and killed his mother. Joseph A. McVay, 10, 13194 Township Road 511, entered the equivalent of a not guilty plea before Juvenile Court Judge Thomas C. Lee to one count of murder. If convicted, he faces incarceration up to age 21. The charge alleges that Joseph shot and...1/3/10Son charged with murder in Sunday shooting
BIG PRAIRIEA 10-year-old boy was brought before a Holmes County judge Monday/Jan. 3 on a murder charge that alleges he shot and killed his mother. Joseph A. McVay, 10, 13194 Township Road 511, entered the equivalent of a not guilty plea before Juvenile Court Judge Thomas C. Lee to one count of murder. If convicted, he faces incarceration up to age 21. The charge alleges that Joseph shot and...Ironing out communication tower issues first on 2011 agenda for commissioners
Nobody plans on having issues crop up, but should any issues occur to Holmes Countys infrastructure in 2011, the county will be prepared to handle it. On Dec. 27, the Holmes County board of commissioners renewed the countys professional engineering services agreement with W.E. Quicksall & Associates, Inc. to serve on an as-needed basis for any engineering issues that may crop up during...
Arson suspected in pub fire
A Sunday night fire at a County Road 192 business may have been set by thieves attempting to cover up a burglary. Holmes County Sheriff Tim Zimmerly said the fire, at the Horse and Harness Pub, 9260 County Road 192, is being investigated as arson after evidence at the scene indicated the fire may have been set deliberately. There was some change and bills found at the back steps where it...
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"So this is Christmas - and what have you done? Another year over and a new one just begun." ~John LennonLike a vapor, Christmas and New Years are tucked away suddenly into the vault of time. Gone like a poof, we're left with a January chill inviting us into the deep of winter. Winter is stark and clean. It leaves us with a clean slate on which to write anew. I often mindlessly sing along...Special briefing highlights issues with oil and gas leasing
Tuscarawas, Carroll and Harrison county business and community leaders, as well as interested residents are invited to attend a special Oil and Gas Leasing Issues Briefing, sponsored by the Tuscarawas, Carroll and Harrison county farm bureaus. The briefing will be held at the First Christian Church, 104 Third Street NW, New Philadelphia on Jan. 11 at 7 p.m. The program will be facilitated by...