A Wayne County middle-schooler is headed to the Scripps National Spelling Bee after taking the top prize over the weekend at the Akron Beacon Journal Regional Spelling Bee, in Hudson. 12-year old Zach Yeager, of Doylestown, is a seventh grader at Chippewa Jr. High...
Wooster City Council members will be getting together this evening. Tonight’s council meeting will feature the first readings of 13 new resolutions, including several dealing with the resurfacing of some of the city’s roadways. Tonight’s meeting will begin at...
A Cleveland man who ran a drug ring from an Ohio prison was sentenced Thursday to more than 17 additional years in federal prison. Authorities say Charles Daniels coordinated drug deals between suppliers and street-level heroin and fentanyl dealers in Wooster while...
A missing at-risk juvenile was located by Wooster first responders this week thanks to the help of a drone. According to Wooster fire officials, the city’s police department requested the use of their drone on Tuesday night to find a boy who had walked away from...
The Wayne County Board of Elections has announced several polling location changes for next week’s Primary, along with special instructions for anyone casting a ballot at Wooster’s Church of the Nazarene. The changes involve polling locations in East Union, Chippewa,...
The city of Orrville’s compost center will open up for the season next month. The center, which is located on Apple Avenue, will officially open for the season on Wednesday, April 3rd. Hours will be 7:30-11:15am and 12:15-3:15pm on Wednesdays, and then 8am-noon on...
Firefighters with the Dalton and North Lawrence departments responded to a structure fire last night. The fire was reported just before 7pm at a garage in the 900 block of South West Lebanon Road. Upon arrival, firefighters found smoke coming from the garage and a...
A four-wheeler accident yesterday afternoon in Wayne County’s Chippewa Township claimed the life of a Doylestown man. According to the Highway Patrol, 25-year old Garrett Carraway was southbound on Serfass Road, at around five o’clock, when his four-wheeler went of...
Wayne County authorities are on the lookout for the person, or persons, responsible for stealing a bus from Orrville’s Kingsway Christian School this past weekend. According to Kingsway officials, someone broke into the school’s bus garage and vandalized it, causing...
Work is expected to begin next week on a road improvement project in Wooster. The project includes the reconstruction of Oak Hill Road, north of Oldman, along with Milltown Road, between Oak Hill and Commerce Parkway. The other part of the project will be the...