Chuck Armbruster News Today

Bill Gantz ended a decade-long tenure on the Wooster City Schools board when he tendered his resignation at Tuesday evenings meeting.

With COVID safety precautions in place, each school has musical theater presentations planned . And for at least one student at Ashland High School, this will be an experience of a lifetime. Junior Aidan Chandler is geared up to perform as Telly Leung in "Godspell." "We’re excited to do it and do it safely," Chandler said. "The things we get to do, you get excited about.” Chandler was quarantined in November before Thanksgiving break. Though he never contracted COVID, he missed some ...

WOOSTER The second attempt to develop a residential subdivision on a parcel of farmland on Melrose Drive suffered a setback when the Wooster Planning Commission voted 4-2 against recommending the project’s rezoning to City Council. Lemmon Development, a North Canton-based construction firm, is seeking rezoning of the 22-acre plot at 4677 Melrose Drive from R-1 single family residential to R-3 attached housing for a planned 152-unit single story apartment complex. At the Jan. 7 meeting, Plann...