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Yoder returns to Alaska after deployment

  • May 4, 2010
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Army Spec. Alena N. Yoder has returned to Fort Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska after being deployed to Afghanistan for one year. The soldier is one of 3,500 members of the 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division stationed at Fort Richardson. Airborne combat team members included soldiers assigned to one of six battalions and regiments of the 25th Infantry Division. The...

Library falls, training center soars, Gibbs in tight battle for Congress after Tuesday's vote

  • May 4, 2010
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Although the faces of the people involved with entities engaged in what were seemingly life-or-death situations at the polls on Tuesday, May 4, may have looked very similar, the end results were anything but common for supporters of the Holmes County District Public Library and the Holmes County Board of Developmental Disabilities (Holmes County Training Center) levies.The training center carried...

Commissioners conduct public hearing for upcoming CDBG funds

  • May 4, 2010
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Beautifying Holmes County remains high on the ledger of things to do for Holmes County Planning Commission Director Arnie Oliver and the Holmes County Board of Commissioners, who met Monday, May 3, during the initial round of public hearings for open bid discussion for the community block development grant (CDBG) funds available for the upcoming year. The current round of CDBG funding totals...

Parking in Millersburg becoming an issue for commissioners

  • May 4, 2010
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It was a light day of action in the Holmes County Commissioner’s May 3 meeting. Joe Arthur, buildings and grounds director, met with the commissioners, and discussed concerns about the two-story parking deck on Monroe Street, behind The Commercial & Savings Bank. Arthur reported that there is cracking in the center of the parking deck, which he considered to be stress cracks in the...

JFS breakfast honors children services, focuses on prescription drug abuse issues

  • May 4, 2010
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The main topics of conversation at the community breakfast sponsored by the Holmes County Department of Job & Family Services (JFS) on April 29, at the Carlisle Inn at Walnut Creek, were prescription drugs and street narcotics.A guest panel consisting of Dr. D.J. McFadden, Holmes County Health Commissioner, Jim Garrett, MEDWAY drug enforcement agent, and Detective Sergeant Roger Estill of the...

Exodus House calls on community to Refresh Everything

  • May 4, 2010
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“We need the help of Bargain Hunter readers,” stated John Kelly, co-director of the Friends of the Homeless Shelter and Exodus House in New Philadelphia.“The Exodus House is our transitional apartment housing, and we need help to finish it. We are trying to get a 50,000-dollar grant from Pepsi’s Refresh project. The money would be used to finish remodeling the house, located at 223 North...

OBITUARY | 2010-05-04

  • May 4, 2010
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Mary Christine Munshower, 89, of Wooster, died May 1, 2010, at Smithville Western Care Center. Mary was born Dec. 24, 1920, in New Bethlehem, Pa., to the late Ira Clyde and Josephine Maybelle Diven. She worked for Rexroth retiring in 1983 and had also worked at Freedlander’s and Frito-Lay. She was a member of Trinity United Church of Christ, Rebekah Lodge, Order of the Eastern Star, and Dorcas...

OBITUARY | 2010-05-04

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Margaret J. Cornelius, 85, of Wooster, died April 30, 2010, at Smithville-Western Care Center, Wooster. Margaret was born Feb. 22, 1925, in Shreve, to the late Clyde V. and Belle Huffman, and had been an area resident all her life. She worked as a housekeeper for many years throughout the area and was a secretary through the offices of the former Horst Auctioneers. She enjoyed bingo and watching...

OBITUARY | 2010-05-04

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Albert “Doyle” LeMar died peacefully May 1, 2010, with his children at his bedside. He was a resident of West View Manor, Wooster. Doyle was born Sept. 13, 1921, in Lodi, to Hazel and Sidney LeMar, and lived his entire life in the Lodi area. He graduated from Lodi High School in 1939, and served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during WWII in the European theater. He owned LeMar Excavating and had...

OBITUARY | 2010-05-04

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Robert Purdy Robert Eugene Purdy, 89, of Wooster, died April 29, 2010, at Wooster Community Hospital. Robert was born Nov. 2, 1920, in Wooster, to the late Galen and Mary Purdy. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1941 and served with the Signal Corps in Saipan, Japan, until the war ended. After being discharged, he worked for Freeman Construction, owned his own business, Purdy’s Antenna...