An open house will be held next month for the newly renovated Ellen Shapiro Natatorium. According to Wooster City Schools Superintendent Micheal Tefs, workers will finish painting the pool this week. After that, the paint will need about a week to cure before the pool can be filled with water. In addition to the pool being repainted, the natatorium’s locker rooms and restrooms have been redone, while some windows and doors were replaced and the entire facility has been made handicap accessible.
A woman from Ashland County is facing charges after her two dogs bit four people, sending all four to the hospital. The pair of American Bulldog-Boxer mixes attacked two woman back on August 2nd and then bit two men who tried to step in and help. Sharon Etzwiler is charged with multiple counts of failing to register her dogs and failing to keep them under control.
A Wooster man was arrested yesterday in Holmes County for allegedly stealing a bicycle. 31-year old Tyler Robinson was reportedly caught on tape stealing an employee’s bike last week at the Walnut Creek Cheese Shop, on State Route 39. The Holmes County Sheriff’s Office took Robinson into custody after another employee saw him walking down the road and recognized him from the cheese shop’s security camera footage.
The mother of a 13-year old boy who drowned earlier this summer in Rittman’s Chippewa Creek is starting up a petition in an effort to keep other kids safe. Lori Klump is trying to get 2,500 people to sign her petition on the website Change.org. Klump’s goal is to have warning signs posted and a fence built around the creek’s low-head dam. Gavin Griffith drowned near that area while swimming with friends back in May.
