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Pomerene Hospital in Millersburg has been recognized by ERC as a Northcoast 99 award winner, which recognizes the hospital as one of the top 99 workplaces in Northeast Ohio with top talent. This is the 14th time in the 21-year history of the award that Pomerene...

The intersection of State Route 3 and Metcalf Road here in Wayne County will be closed this upcoming Wednesday for a culvert replacement. ODOT suggests that motorists take State Route 226, which loops around the detour and goes through villages like Lakeville, Big...

The City of Wadsworth this past week unveiled a plan for the construction of a new roundabout intersection, which will be located at State Route 57 and Seville Road. The project is expected to begin in the summer of 2022 and would cost over $ 2 million. However,...

A West Salem man died early Friday morning following a one vehicle crash in Medina County. Michael Lemerise of West Salem was pronounced dead at the scene after his 2007 Jeep Commander went off the side of the road struck a utility pole and a tree. The crash occurred...

One barn was destroyed in a fire Friday afternoon in Chester Township. The fire destroyed a barn at the Shaggy Apple Farm on Smithville Western Road. No one was in the barn at the time, nor was there any livestock in the barn at the time of the fire. Six firefighters...

The Ohio Department of Education has released its annual school report cards.  The results were revealed on Thursday, with most of the local districts fairing quite well.  Of the ten districts in Wayne County, six received a B (Chippewa, Dalton, Green Local, Norwayne,...

Police in Wooster continue to investigate an accident this week near the Wayne County Fairgrounds involving a teenage girl.  13-year old Isabelle Hall was crossing Liberty Street, near Vanover, on Wednesday night when she was struck by a car.  Hall was taken to...

A ceremony will be held prior to tomorrow night’s Wooster High School football game to unveil an Ohio Historical Marker honoring Charles Follis, the nation’s first professional African American football player.  Prior to turning pro in 1902, Follis, who passed away in...

A grand opening celebration will take place tomorrow morning in Wooster for the new Dollar 1 store, located at the far western end of Portage Square Plaza.  The store will be unique, in that all items are initially priced at $6 every Friday, but then drop throughout...

Council members in Millersburg have approved a motion that clears the way for a local group to explore the possibility of putting in a disc golf course at the village’s Deer Run Park.  The group, which says the park has the perfect terrain and amenities for a disc...

Wooster Police searched for a man Tuesday night who fled from police after grabbing what appeared to officers to be a gun from a car. According to Wooster PD the suspect was talking to someone in the vehicle near the intersection of Nold Ave and Spink Street around...

The Smithville Historical Society, along with the Greater Akron Model-T Club, will be hosting an open house this weekend at the Model-T Ford Museum, on East Main Street.  Hours will be Sunday afternoon, from 1:30-4pm.  All of the buildings in Pioneer Village will also...