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Red Cross to hold pasta dinner benefiting Disaster Relief Services

  • April 22, 2010
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Help support Disaster Relief Services provided by the Muskingum Lakes Chapter of the American Red Cross by attending the pasta dinner fundraiser on Saturday, April 24, from 4:30-7 p.m., at First United Church of Christ, 201 Fair Ave., New Philadelphia. The menu will feature pasta, meatballs, salad, bread, beverage, and dessert. Tickets will be available at the door, $7 for adults and $3 for...

The Community Nest project

  • April 22, 2010
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“The Community Nest project is a small, new program, but we hope to change that,” said Rita Fisher, office manager for Harcatus Home Energy Assistance and Family Support Center in New Philadelphia. “Through the Community Nest project, we assist those on food stamps by providing them with supplies not covered by them, such as toilet paper, diapers and cleaning supplies.”The Community Nest...

Parrish family walk-a-thon set for Sunday, April 25

  • April 22, 2010
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On Sunday, April 25, the Parrish family will host the seventh annual MDA/SAM Parrish Family Walk-a-thon and it will again be held at the New Philadelphia High School gymnasium. This event raises awareness and funds to benefit research with the Muscular Dystrophy Association and Seek a Miracle, and to help people with neuromuscular diseases and the quest is hope of a cure one day in the near...

Greco Band announces rehearsals

  • April 22, 2010
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The Dominic Greco Band will begin rehearsals for the 2010 summer concert season on Thursday, April 29, from 6:30-9 p.m., in the Dover Middle School band room. Rehearsals will continue every Thursday through the middle of August. The Dominic Greco Concert Band is a volunteer community band with approximately 80 members, and is under the direction of Frederick Delphia. This popular ensemble...

Popular authors donate signed books to help the Newcomerstown library

  • April 22, 2010
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John Grisham has donated a signed first edition of his book, Ford County: Stories to help the Newcomerstown Public Library. The first edition of the title, published in November 2009, is one of the items going up for bid on April 17, as part of the Back On Track Fundraising Committee’s Literary Auction, which runs through May 8. Another recent addition to the auction featuring letters and books...

Committed to caring Kathy Buchanan and the Dean and Janet Feller family awarded county recognition for community contributions

  • April 22, 2010
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Each year, the Homemakers Clubs of Tuscarawas County, in cooperation with Ohio State University Extension, take time to recognize those women and their families who have truly exemplified the organization’s mission statement of ‘volunteers working together…to strengthen individuals, families, and communities, through education, leadership development, and social interaction.’2010 winners...

Weed out a good time: Dandelion Festival comes to Dover April 30 and May 1, with fun and activities for the entire family

  • April 22, 2010
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Spring is here, and area lawns are coming to life with Taraxacum officinale, that cheerful, multi-petaled yellow flower that is officially defined as a weed. However, there are many who would differ with this definition. “Dandelions are wonderful,” exclaimed Anita Davis, of Breitenbach Winery of Dover. Davis has many reasons to think so, and obviously many others share her opinion, as...

Iconic Goodyear blimp to pass over area, April 30

  • April 22, 2010
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The Goodyear blimp is a familiar sight for most Americans. If they haven’t seen one in person, they most likely have viewed one while watching a major sporting event on television. The blimp has been flying over the country for 75 years. In 1925, 37 years after the world’s most famous tire and rubber company, Goodyear, began, the corporation launched its very first blimp into the skies...

Pulitzer Prize finalist to visit local library

  • April 22, 2010
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Critically acclaimed author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Martin will be visiting the main branch of the Tuscarawas County Public Library (121 Fair Ave. in New Philadelphia) on Thursday, April 22, at 7 p.m. Martin, author of The Bright Forever (a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction), is also a professor of English and the director of the creative writing program at Ohio State...

Public, heroes walk to help local Red Cross

  • April 22, 2010
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Have you ever wanted to be up close and personal to a real life hero? More than 150 youth and adults had that opportunity and put their best foot forward for the Red Cross as part of the Walk with a Hero recently at New Towne Mall. As a new feature of the Hometown Heroes campaign, participants joined police, firefighters, health care professionals, volunteers and past and current Red Cross...