Wayne News

An unidentified man was killed yesterday when he stepped into the path of a tractor-trailer on U.S. 6 west of State Rt.

Wayne Elementary School pupils recently learned a lesson regarding recycling during a recent visit from the Carnegie Science Center.

Family CHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVAL Through Nov. 29 Celebrate the opening of tree season with pony and wagon rides, live entertainment, crafts, food and Santa Claus.

Family SCULPTURE IN THE VILLAGE Through Dec. 31 Williams Park in Gibsonburg will be the site of Sculpture in the Village, a juried outdoor sculpture exhibit with more than 20 sculptures in bronze, stone, steel, marble, aluminum, granite, glass, and concrete in an outdoor setting.

Nearly 40 people attended the Habitat for Humanity new home dedication celebration Sunday afternoon in Clyde.

A Wood County grand jury has indicted a former Wayne, Ohio, police officer for using a computerized statewide database for nonbusiness inquiries.

NEWCOMERSTOWN: Wayne L. Hall, 85, of Newcomerstown, passed away Friday, October 9, 2009, at his daughter, Cindy Albaugh's, residence in West Lafayette, Ohio, from a long battle with cancer.

IN NORTHEAST OHIO...HOLMES...MAHONING... MEDINA...PORTAGE...STARK...SUMMIT...TRUMBULL AND WAYNE.

A rural Portage, Ohio, man was killed when a car he was in drove into a pond Sunday night west of this Wood County community, authorities said.

ZANESVILLE --On Sept. 19 and 20 the inaugural Ohio Outback Bass Classic was conducted on the Muskingum River.

Kofenya employees Liz Snydert and Nicole Ayres write in a book inside the Oxford coffee shop where Kimberly Young worked.

The family of a Miami University graduate who died this week now says she did not die from the H1N1 virus, according to a Toledo newspaper.

Pink ribbons cover the outside of the main office at Anthony Wayne High School, both as a reminder of tomorrow's Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure and the reason that so many students will participate: Principal Jeri Hoellrich, who was diagnosed with breast cancer this summer - within two days of her mother, Ellen Vantrease, 85, of Holgate, Ohio.

A 2004 Elmwood High School graduate living in southwest Ohio died Wednesday of complications from viral pneumonia after testing positive for so-called swine flu last week, according to the family.

An Oxford woman who recently graduated from Miami University died early Wednesday after falling ill with the H1N1 flu virus last week.

The Wood County Health Department will offer seasonal flu clinics 9:30-11:30 a.m. Oct.

It appears that the health-care reform bill is at a roadblock. The insurance companies have spent heavily lobbying against meaningful reform.

Administrators became aware of an overflow of kindergarten students in a couple of classes on elementary re-enrollment day, Aug.

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The Salem Oak Harbor Class of 1944 had a 65th anniversary reunion Aug. 8 at The Golf Club in Oak Harbor.