Fredericksburg News

BERLIN -- The fifth annual Bluegrass & Country Gospel Music Celebration will take place at 6 p.m. Nov.

Dennis Derflinger felt something was missing from his stewardship bucket list, that somewhere out there, there was an organization that suited his talents, was in line with his extracurricular interests and fit into his time schedule.

The Wooster Post of the State Highway Patrol has concluded investigations into three September crashes that claimed the lives of five people.

A 12-year-old Amish girl died this wekend as the result of an accident that claimed the lives of her older brother and sister.

Two teens died Thursday when their buggy was struck by a pick-up truck on Holmes County Road 200 just east of Township Road 657.

About 100 firefighters from nine departments battled a fire at 9050 Hogback Road that destroyed a 600-foot chicken house while trying to save a similar, adjacent structure Monday afternoon.

A Monday afternoon fire destroyed a mobile home along Finley Street, leaving a couple wondering what to do next.

A Monday afternoon fire destroyed a mobile home along Finley Street, leaving a couple wondering what to do next.

A Monday afternoon fire destroyed a mobile home along Finley Street, leaving a couple wondering what to do next.

Between mowing and cleaning, Ed Miller watches out for signs that nature is encroaching on the Holmes County Trail in a negative way.

Between mowing and cleaning, Ed Miller watches out for signs that nature is encroaching on the Holmes County Trail in a negative way.

Twenty-six people arrested during and after a June 29 roundup of accused drug dealers and users by Medway Drug Enforcement Agency pleaded not guilty to drug charges Wednesday in Wayne County Common Pleas Court.

Two Apple Creek teenagers were injured in a Tuesday morning crash on Carr Road, just north of Moreland Road.

The Holmes County Park District signed an easement agreement that will open four miles of former railway to development of the Holmes County Trail.

Wayne County Sheriff's deputies are investigating an apparent homicide in the death of a 30-year-old Maysville area woman found shot Tuesday in her home.

ATTICA - Not only did Wayne Chinn, Brad Haudenschild and Dan Hennig beat the competition at Attica Raceway Park Friday night to record their first career wins at "Ohio's Finest Racing" speedplant, but they had to best Mother Nature as well.

When Gary Sands hits the big 5-0 on Tuesday, he doesn't plan to spend it eating birthday cake, opening presents or taking the day off from work.

Voters in the Green school district voted down a substitute levy Tuesday, and school officials said they were surprised and disappointed by the results.

The directors of the boards of election in Wayne and Holmes counties are not predicting a large voter turnout for Tuesday's primary and special election.

A Fredericksburg man who broke into an elementary school in 2005 and stole cash, food and school supplies, only to be caught by DNA evidence from chewing gun and chewing tobacco left at the scene, was sentenced to 18 months community control Tuesday morning.