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At their meeting on Monday night, Wooster City Council members approved several measures, including a tax abatement for Rea & Associates.  The 12-year, 50% abatement will allow the accounting firm to construct a new downtown office building on North Market...

Holmes County Commissioners have officially handed over the former county landfill to the Holmes County Park District.  The transferring of the 250 acres of land, which is located off of Township Road 326 in the north central part of the county, took place during a...

Thanks to the efforts of the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Wayne and Holmes Counties, two local organizations will receive more than $700,000 in capital funding.  The money, which is part of a $20 million state initiative to provide middle and high school...

Beginning Monday, June 1, Wayne County Public Library will begin offering contactless, curbside pickup of library books, audio-books, movies and more at all WCPL branch libraries. Curbside pickup is by appointment only. We are very happy to be able to serve Wayne...

More than a hundred protesters took to the streets of downtown Wooster on Sunday afternoon to rally against police brutality, in the wake of last week’s death of George Floyd, in Minnesota.  The event, which was completely peaceful, took place at around 2pm, on the...

State Representative Scott Wiggam, of Wooster, has been chosen to serve on a committee that will help finalize a new piece of state legislation.  The former Wayne County Commissioner will serve on the committee with two other state representatives, along with several...

The Wayne County Planning Department is in need of a new director.  County commissioners are currently reviewing applications for the position, which was left vacant when former planning director Trevor Hunt resigned to take the planning director’s job for the city of...

The Central Fire District received new shoes after getting a donation thanks to Vertical Runner and Asics. Tammy Polen co-owner of Vertical Runner, which is based in Wooster, reached out to Asics regarding their supports for first responder’s on the front lines of the...

The City of Wadsworth has joined the growing list of communities that have cancelled their Fourth of July fireworks celebrations. The city came to the agreement Thursday to not hold the annual fireworks display, which can bring thousands of people to downtown...

An Orrville man died this week at a state park in Akron.  Summit County Authorities were called out to Portage Lakes Park on Tuesday afternoon after 30-year old Corey Jones went missing in the park’s swimming area.  Rescuers found Jones in the water and rushed him to...

Several school districts in the Ashland County area were recently given no-contact thermometers to checks students’ temperatures of once they finally return to school.  The Samaritan Hospital Foundation donated more than 80 of the thermometers, which will be divvied...

The Wayne County Coroner announced that the Wadsworth man found dead in an RV this week likely died of natural causes. The man, identified as 61 year-old Mark Phares, was found inside his RV at the northbound rest stop on Interstate 71 Tuesday. The coroner’s office...

According to numbers released this week by the Wayne County Health Department, COVID-19 is now the county’s number one killer.  The health department says 31 people in Wayne County died last month from the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, which accounted...

A Millersburg man has passed away after being shot in the head last week for allegedly entering another man’s home without permission.  23-year old Alexander White died at Akron City Hospital.  Authorities, who list his death as a homicide, say White and another man...

ORRVILLE – May 26, 2020 -- The University of Akron (UA) Wayne College Alumni Association is proud to announce Kent Smith as its 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. The award recognizes graduates who have shown leadership in the workplace and community and will...

Holmes County’s soil and water conservation district is now accepting applications for its cover crop cost share incentive program.  Fields will be ranked using management-based criteria and qualifying acreage will earn between $12 and $20 per acre, with participants...