Wayne County News

The Wooster/Wayne County Unit of Church Women United held its annual May Friendship Celebration May 4 at 6 p.m. at Congress Community Church.

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One of the early settlers in this township was Mathias Camp, who was born in Westmoreland County, Pa., in 1794.

Mike Schenk photos/www.buydrphotos.com Gene Richard leads a line of senior citizens picking up information from Suzanne Bradcovich-Bozick , representing the Area Agency on Aging at the Senior A-Fair held Tuesday at the Wayne County fairgrounds.

BASKETBALL, ABBEYVILLE: An Abbeyville Road resident told police that men were playing basketball and being too loud at 12:41 a.m. on May 15.

The first white settler in Chester Township also turned out to be one of the county's most successful early entrepreneurs.

COVENTRY: Summit County sheriff's deputies patrolling Hyfield Road April 27 stopped a driver for a traffic violation and arrested the West Salem man for having open containers of beer and tequila in the vehicle.

Local leaders have long argued that area communities would do better if they worked together as a region, rather than compete with each other.

The Summit County Medical Examiner's Office and the Wayne County Sheriff's Department are investigating the death of Kylie Dawson, 6 months, of Wooster.

Dan Starcher photo/www.buydrphotos.com Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Lutz swears in Mark Clark as a Municipal Court judge.

"They came from Wayne County, Ohio. When they came to Harmony they were mostly farmers.

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Dalton preschool story times, various times and dates, Dalton branch of the Wayne County Public Library.

With construction of the new Wayne County Ohio Department of Transportation garage looming, City Council approved moving ahead with the bid process in order to extend sanitary sewer to the site.

In an effort to continue its mission to help local residents, the Kidney Foundation of Wayne County will offer its much anticipated event on Friday.

Tri-county Educational Service Center has announced the 2012 Franklin B. Walter All-Scholastic Award winners for Ashland, Holmes and Wayne counties.

Photo By Dan StarcherPaul Locher speaks about the character of the county's early pioneers at a program titled "Stitching Together the Past and Present" at the bicentennial celebration.

Earlier this year the Wayne County commissioners sent Gov. John Kasich a letter asking to be released from a regional planning and economic development organization.

If Jason Hinton was a fisherman, you'd say he found a honey hole -- a mushroom hunter, his secret spot.

If the government wants to save money in health care costs, then it should look to use outpatient surgery centers, a gastroenterologist told Congressman Jim Renacci.