Wooster News

The National Science Foundation is America's biggestA seed-stage investor. And one of NSF's portfolio managers has keen insights on what separates the start-up winners from the pack.

Fire Chief Rob Eyler said a call was received at 6:31 a.m. from someone at the apartment complex located at 659 Pittsburgh Ave.

The Peruvian theater group Cuer2 will be performing two plays Thursday in the Puerto Rican and Latin American Cultural Center in the fourth floor of the Student Union.

Advanced Drainage Systems Inc. will open its 54th manufacturing plant in Clifford, Mich.

Citing an estimated $2 million budget gap next year, Mayor Bob Breneman used his State of the City address to inform Kiwanis Club members some form of an income tax increase would appear on the November ballot.

A Wooster man was back in court Monday following his apprehension by U.S. Marshals in Mississippi two weeks ago.

Pam Pezzin of Freeport was walking in the woods on a winter day back around 1989 when she broke out in hives all over her body, including her stomach, arms, legs and face.

The city paid just more than $11.8 million in gross pay in 2011 to 279 employees, across all funds, according to public records.

In 1813, frontiersman and Indian fighter Adam Poe decided to leave his cabin on the Beaver River in Columbiana County and follow two of his sons to Wayne County.

Photo By Dan Starcher Candidates for Wayne County sheriff and commissioner await the start of the Meet the Candidates event Thursday at the Wayne County Chapter of the American Red Cross in Wooster.

Community Record notices must be received in writing at The Daily Record no later than 10 a.m. two days prior to publication.

While 2011 had its challenges, it was a good year for the Wayne Economic Development Council, its president said Thursday at the organization's annual meeting at the Shisler Center.

When President Barack Obama talked about things being "made in America" and an "economy built to last," he was talking about things vital to rural Ohio, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday.

Income tax collections posted increases in revenue for the city's general fund in 2011 over 2010 numbers.

My half-brother, named Christopher Maurer Runion at birth. Born Sept. 9, 1954 at the Chittenden Maternity Home in Akron, Ohio.

The annual meeting of the Wayne Economic Development Council is not until Thursday, but the county commissioners heard a preview of some things to expect when they met with the organization's president Wednesday.

The Wooster Growth Corp. recommended to City Council a tax abatement for ABS Materials as it seeks to refurbish and expand its new facility on Old Mansfield Road.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, at St. Mary Catholic Church, 527 Beall Ave., Wooster, Ohio 44691 with Father Stephen Moran officiating.

Wooster students warm up before a dress rehearsal of one act plays Monday in the Wooster High School Heart Theater.

Superintendent Michael Tefs summarized Table Top discussions, which sought public input on reconfiguring district schools "before making very serious changes to the district." "We're going to have to get good at managing change," board President Jim Barnard predicted at the Tuesday meeting of the board.