Hagerstown property owners are being asked to remove items, vehicles and debris that might be blocking their electric meter so that installers of new meters can access them to replace them. The project to replace the town’s about 1,080 meters is scheduled to begin at the end of August and might take a month to […]
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Meet school board candidates on TV candidate forums
Whitewater Community Television is once again providing Wayne County voters an opportunity to meet the candidates in contested races prior to the November election. WCTV is partnering with the Wayne County Area Chamber of Commerce and Western Wayne News on the IN Focus program, to help voters be informed of their choices when heading to […]
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Centerville honors 2 childhood cancer survivors
Centerville showed support for two strong moms and their two special sons at the Aug. 30 Centerville Christian Church blood drive honoring leukemia survivors Billy Henry and Mason Hinshaw. The blood drive marked the beginning of Community Blood Center’s September Childhood Cancer Awareness Month campaign. It totaled 51 donors, including 42 donations and eight first-time […]
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Canal Days coming this weekend
Parade, duck race, alumni gatherings return to Cambridge City Canal Days organizers hope to keep area residents’ attitudes sunny in September with an “Endless Summer” theme for this year’s festival. Visitors will notice an extra block of vendors stretched along U.S. 40 heading west toward First United Methodist Church, which offers an ice cream social, […]
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3 high schools celebrating homecoming
Three Wayne County high schools have homecoming this week, Centerville, Hagerstown and Northeastern. Homecoming at Lincoln will be next week, Sept. 12-16; and at Richmond, Sept. 19-23. Centerville Centerville will crown its homecoming king and queen during halftime at the homecoming game against Winchester on Friday. King candidates include Wade Lambright, Caleb Rose and Cameron […]
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Family Recovery Court aims to change behaviors
A year after a Wayne County court started a non-traditional program, its Family Recovery Court is seeing some success and is hoping to grow. Wayne County Family Recovery Court expands the traditional role of the non-criminal court from hearing, mediating and ordering solutions. The Family Recovery Court aim is to change behaviors of parents whose […]
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Saturday update: Officer transferred to Richmond-area hospice
Richmond Police Department Officer Seara Burton was transferred from the Intensive Care Unit at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, to a hospice facility in the Richmond area on Saturday. “She will continue receiving excellent care and be surrounded by her family,” according to a news release from RPD Chief Mike Britt and Majors Jon […]
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RPD responds to South 10th Street shooting
Richmond Police Department’s first-shift patrol officers were dispatched to the 500 block of South 10th Street on Friday after a report of a person with a gun. While officers were responding, they were advised a person had been shot. Tyler Qualls, 31, of Richmond was located with a gunshot wound to his left hip/buttocks area. […]
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Little League World Series Commemorative Issue now available
Don’t miss your chance to pick up the special Little League World Series Commemorative Issue of the Western Wayne News. The Aug. 31 issue is now available at these local locations until lunchtime Tuesday, Sept. 6: Cambridge City: Country Mark, Cambridge City Market, Dollar General, Lumpy’s Café, Speedway at 1 and 70. Centerville: Village Pantry, […]
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5 p.m. Thursday: Mayor says Burton still alive, surrounded by family
Richmond Police Department Officer Seara Burton is still alive and being surrounded by family as of early Thursday evening. At about 5 p.m., Richmond Mayor Dave Snow shared, “Although she was removed from life-sustaining efforts this morning, she is still with us. We know the time of her passing is imminent; however, right now, her […]