Wayne County News

Calls to the police department from the library have been sufficiently frequent to warrant inviting the chief to a board meeting to discuss police presence at the building.

Children will have a lot to do June 1 as they mark the kick off to summer during the Wayne County Public Library's and Main Street Wooster's annual Kids' Day celebration.

The volunteers, consumers and staff at the MOCA House have been around the state pushing for Medicaid expansion in Ohio, so it was only fitting to have a rally at its College Avenue facility.

Even though the Finance Committee of the Ohio House of Representatives removed a provision to expand who is eligible for Medicaid, the executive director of a Cleveland-based advocacy group thinks it is still on the table.

Portage County Sheriff David Doak is asking for the public's assistance in locating a missing Norton man, whose vehicle was found abandoned at the Berlin Reservoir in Deerfield on Thursday.

Dan Starcher photo/www.buydrphotos.com CAUSE FOR THE PAWS -- Taylor Lamborn, a College of Wooster graduate and local musician, will perform at SoMar Wine Cellars on Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. for a fundraiser to benefit the Wayne County Humane Society.

A representative from Policy Matters Ohio will speak about Gov. John Kasich's proposed budget at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Wayne County Public Library.

Bryan Plotkin of AEP presented Commissioners Jim Carmichael, Ann Obrecht and Scott Wiggam with the award Wednesday.

The Wayne County Retired Teacher's Association met April 23 at the Wayne County Career Center Restaurant where a business meeting was held before lunch.

As a means of setting the stage and getting people to start thinking about the 200th anniversary of the Sonnenberg Mennonite community, which begins less than six years from now, the Kidron-Sonnenberg Heritage Center recently took the wraps off a yearlong exhibit titled "Sonnenberg: The Early Years." The Sonnenberg community was a Swiss Mennonite ... (more)

The Roundtable, which allows Wayne County veterans to tell the stories of their military service in a public setting, will be held May 23 at 7 p.m. in the schoolhouse on the campus of the Wayne County Historical Society at 546 E. Bowman St.

Fifty-six years ago Tuesday , a devastating tornado swept through downtown Wooster ripping the roof off of the Wayne County National Bank and injuring three bank employees -- Vice President Creed Shearer, 51,... Already a subscriber to print? You have online access, too... at no additional expense! Call 287-1615 to set up an account.

The state will spend nearly $14 million in Wayne County transportation projects as part of its 2013 construction program -- and none of them are chip-and-seal jobs.

Bobby Warren photo/www.buydrphotos.com John Holley of Wooster casts a vote at the Wayne County Board of Elections on Monday.

Such as? Well, such as 12 board presidents, 115 board members and 672 board and officer meetings, by his calculation.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol says Earnest Nelson, 29, was driving westbound on Church Road or County Road 7, when he drifted off the right side of the road.

Children, along with their parents and grandparents, spent the afternoon outside for a slice of nature during the annual Izaak Walton League Trout Derby on Saturday.

On May 2, she was one of about three dozen Wayne County teens and hundreds of others from around the state who traveled to the Ohio Statehouse to put a public face on their drug-free decision.

The Nashville Jolly Farmers 4-H Club met April 28 with 25 members present, and pledges were led by Bryce Burgett and Ethan Fair.

People to People Ministries held its annual dinner and recognition of volunteers April 23 at First Presbyterian Church.