Newcomerstown News

COSHOCTON -- Craft show season is in full swing and some vendors, like Nancy Orr of Newcomerstown, have been preparing products since summer for holiday shoppers.

Two new faces will join Newcomerstown Village Council come 2010. The two new faces on village council will be Heather M. Stein Wells with 570 votes and Burris L. Gardner with 489 votes, according to unofficial results from the Tuscarawas County Board of Elections.

A recommendation for termination of the Newcomerstown police captain was approved by village council following a hearing recently.

COSHOCTON -- The holiday-season job of stocking store shelves, running a register or wrapping gifts used to be as reliable as Santa at every mall.

NEWCOMERSTOWN -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5, has reached an agreement with J&J Cores LLC, on alleged clean-air violations at the company's second aluminum production facility in Newcomerstown.

NEWCOMERSTOWN -- A holiday cooking show will be at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 23 at the David Barber Civic Center in Newcomerstown.

CAMBRIDGE -- A segment of NBC's 'Today,' filmed at Salt Fork State Park, is scheduled to air in November, according to The Daily Jeffersonian.

NEWCOMERSTOWN -- A benefit poker run and hog roast will be Saturday to aide the family of Steve Elliott.

They will be honored Nov. 21 during a ceremony at the Olde Main Street Museum and Social Center in Newcomerstown, Ohio.

NEWCOMERSTOWN -- The Red Hat Halloween Hoot is 1 to 3 p.m. Oct. 31, at Riverside Manor in Newcomerstown.

NEWCOMERSTOWN -- The Newcomerstown Knights of Columbus will conduct a meet-the-candidates night at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the St.

NEWCOMERSTOWN -- The Newcomerstown Public Library is hosting a scarecrow and pumpkin carving contest Oct.

NEWCOMERSTOWN - St. Paul Lutheran Church of Newcomerstown will have events to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the arson that destroyed the church building on Oct.

Don Keating uses a blue bed sheet as a bluescreen when producing video weather capsules at his East Cambridge home for his weather Web site.

The Daily Jeffersonian is asking for Trick or Treat times and dates. Village, township and other officials are asked to submit dates and times to Dan Davis, either by telephone at 439-3531 ext.

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.

SUGARCREEK -- The Ridgewood High School boys cross country team came up with one of its strongest performances of the season, winning the small school division title at the Garaway Invitational, Saturday.

The Cambridge Performing Arts Centre announces auditions for "The Lion in Winter" on Sunday, Oct.

At West Lafayette, Kayla Tedrick collected 11 points, three aces, eight kills, two blocks, 15 assists and seven digs as the Generals improved to 9-4 in the Inter-Valley Conference and 10-4 overall Tuesday.

Two people were injured this morning in a one-car crash on County Road 1027. Mike A. Mechling, 37, of Perrysville was driving a 2004 Hyundai Accent north on County Road 1027 at about 8:30 a.m. when he failed to negotiate a curve and went off the road, according to a report from the Ashland post of the State Highway Patrol.