Atwater News

Randolph and surrounding communities are invited to a FREE Community Christmas Party to celebrate the beginning of the holiday season on December 5th from 4pm-7pm at First Baptist Church in Atwater.

Freedom Township Trustee J.J. Leet first was elected to office in 1977, and won re-election seven more times thereafter for a total of 32 years.

John Kovacich and Lynn Whittlesey were elected to Atwater Township Trustee seats on Tuesday.

The 2nd annual "Walk for Food' sponsored by The Southwest Portage County Ministerial Society was held recently in Randolph.

A high-speed chase in Marlboro Township resulted in the arrest of an Atwater man early Friday morning, according to Marlboro Township Police Chief Ron Devies.

Three teenagers police believe set fire to mailboxes in Atwater over the weekend were arrested and charged with criminal damaging.

By RUTH LANG The Review RANDOLPH TWP. - Three fire departments responded to multiple reports of an explosion late Tuesday morning in the 900 block of Pamer Road.

The Marlington Dukes triumphed over the Massillon Tigers by scores of 25-21, 25-15, 25-14 in a volleyball match here Wednesday.

Shirley A. Custer, 83, of 46985 South State St, died at 7:20 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009, at Alliance City Hospital.

By Matt Fredmonsky Record-Courier staff writer The senior royalty received their crowns Friday at the Portage County-Randolph Fair.

Abbigale Weinhofer, 2 1/2, of Hartville, pats a sheep on the head at the Portage County -Randolph Fair on Tuesday.

Charges officially were filed against the Atwater man suspected of fleeing the scene of a crash that left a woman dead and another man in critical condition earlier this month.

Mary Castelman Wells was 97 years old when she died in Atwater in 1874 after a long life that changed forever on a spring day on the Ohio frontier when she was a teenager.

Bradley M. Wagner, wanted as the driver in a fatal accident that left a woman dead and another man in critical condition, turned himself in to law enforcement about 8 p.m. Wednesday night.

Bradley M. Wagner, wanted as the driver in a fatal accident that left a woman dead and another man in critical condition, turned himself in to law enforcement about 8 p.m. Wednesday night.

In 1996, Tyrone L. Noling of Alliance was convicted and sentenced to death for the double murder of Bernhardt and Cora Hartig, an elderly Atwater couple who were slain in 1990.

Bradley M. Wagner, wanted as the driver in a fatal accident that left a woman dead and another man in critical condition, turned himself in to law enforcement about 8 p.m. Wednesday night.

The State Highway Patrol is looking for an Atwater man who crashed his car yesterday, killing a passenger.

Fire departments from seven communities responded to a barn fire on Wilkes Road Friday night.

Shirley Minor, 72, Beloit, was cited for lanes of travel at 12:40 p.m. Tuesday on U.S. Route 62 in Knox Township after she drove her westbound vehicle left of center and Marissa Trimble, 22, Alliance, drove her eastbound vehicle off the right edge of the roadway and into a ditch to avoid Minor's vehicle.