The city’s planning commission and zoning and annexation board are advancing zoning changes that would make way for a large housing development on the 20-acre former Howden-Buffalo property at the corner of South Broadway and Mill Avenue. The proposal calls for two...

The Quaker Foundation is honoring standout New Philadelphia High School alumni, educators, and students tonight at its Annual Recognition Banquet. Board member Jan McInturf says 147 scholarships will be awarded to 87 graduating seniors, ranging from $1,000 to $10,000,...

Several blood drives are planned for Tuscarawas County through Vitaliant and the American Red Cross. Opportunities in May include the Tuscarawas County YMCA on the 1st from noon to 6pm. On the 6th, the Red Cross will be in Sugarcreek at Frist United Church of Christ...

Five community leaders will be honored in June as the latest recipients of the Zeisberger Heckewelder awards.  For 45 years, this annual Tuscarawas County tradition has recognized exemplary citizens with the award named for the 18th-century missionaries who founded...

Walmart in New Philadelphia was evacuated for about two hours on Wednesday after a bomb threat was found scrawled in a women’s restroom.  Police and a bomb-detection K9 from Canton conducted a sweep of the store and found nothing suspicious.  The report came in at...

A new trail is available for use at Clendening Park Dam off of State Route 800 in Tippecanoe. The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District and Army Corp of Engineers recently cut the ribbon for the Quarry Trail. Trails Coordinator Dylan Sayer says the first part...

New charges in a decades-old dismemberment case are giving the Tuscarawas County Sheriff’s Office hope for other cold cases.  Investigators say Larry Drotleff of Euclid admitted he found his elderly father dead at home in 1998, dismembered the body, and dumped the...

The Tuscarawas County Health Department is reporting a confirmed case of rabies in a bat found in Dennison.  Officials were notified April 24th by the Ohio Department of Health—marking the county’s first rabies case in several years. Community Relations Director...

The sale of the Uhrichsville service garage is still pending but took a step forward with council's approval. Larry Wood, of Wood Electric, was the lone bidder at $284,000 but council held off due to unknowns about where the service department would relocate. The...

The School District has unveiled a conceptual rendering of what a new single campus could look like if voter approve an income tax increase next week. Issue 1 on the May 5 ballot is a 1.5 percent earned income tax to fund the construction of new schools. If it passes,...