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Gillespie named to Workforce Policy Board

  • January 4, 2010
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Matching the right person to the right job is one of the keys to success for any organization. That’s exactly what Rich Owens, director of the Wayne County Department of Job and Family Services, believes he has done by tapping James Gillespie, the Gerstenslager Company human resources director, to join the Workforce Policy Board that services Wayne, Holmes and Ashland counties. At their meeting...

Boreman lands dream job with NASCAR

  • January 4, 2010
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Wayne County Schools Career Center distinguished alumni Jim Boreman, formerly of Orrville, recently landed his dream job, working for NASCAR in Concord, N.C. Since August 13, he has been employed at the NASCAR Research and Development facility.Boreman is a CAD/measurement technician, measuring and certifying race chassis for NASCAR. He measures the cars for post-race, the winning car and a car...

Beautifying downtown Millersburg one window at a time

  • January 4, 2010
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For the past several years, Jerry Hoxworth’s trio of office buildings, located on East Jackson St. in Historic Downtown Millersburg, have sat vacant, the dusty windows partially hiding the emptiness of the interior, but not totally obscuring the sense of vacancy in downtown Millersburg that the village believes is not exactly a drawing card for tourism in their town. Recently, however, a...

Gillespie named to Workforce Policy Board

  • January 4, 2010
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Matching the right person to the right job is one of the keys to success for any organization. That’s exactly what Rich Owens, director of the Wayne County Department of Job and Family Services, believes he has done by tapping James Gillespie, the Gerstenslager Company human resources director, to join the Workforce Policy Board that services Wayne, Holmes and Ashland counties. At their meeting...

City takes first step toward building new fire station

  • January 4, 2010
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Wooster City Council took the first of what will be a series of steps to construct a new fire station on the city’s north end. During their Dec. 21 meeting, members of Wooster City Council voted 6-0 to authorize the city’s administrative team to purchase three parcels of property on the city’s north end for the construction of a new fire station to replace the existing Station #2 located on...

Crews work to shore up wall of Amster Building

  • January 4, 2010
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For more than 150 years, the Memorial Building that once housed Freedlander’s Department Store stood side by side with the Amster Building, protecting the Amster Building’s west wall from the ravages of time and the elements. Crews from B&B Wrecking spent weeks painstakingly removing layer after layer of the east wall of the Memorial Building until at last the west wall of the Amster...

2010 budget reflects hospital’s strong financial condition

  • January 4, 2010
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As the city of Wooster wrestles with a challenging general revenue fund budget for 2010, the Wooster Community Hospital’s portion of the city’s 2010 budget tells a very different and much more positive story. As the city looks at another year of declining revenue, the hospital is looking at a revenue increase despite the challenging economic conditions that will likely carry over into early...

Wooster faces a challenging budget for 2010

  • January 4, 2010
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As 2009 came to a close, members of Wooster City Council voted unanimously to approve what Mayor Bob Breneman described as “a challenging budget.” “I wish it could be otherwise but you are all aware of the economic situation that all of us face in this day and time and the city is no different,” said Breneman. “We have enough in our rainy day fund…to run through 2010, but by the end of...

Paying tribute to one of their own

  • January 4, 2010
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At their final meeting for 2009, members of Wooster City Council paused to pay tribute to one of their own – the late Ed Schuch, who passed away Dec. 8. He was hailed by Mayor Bob Breneman as “a fine citizen and a very important person to the city of Wooster.” “It is with great sadness that we recognize that Ed has passed but we are thankful for his time here in our community,” said...

Generals will have to be at their best for NEACs

  • January 4, 2010
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