Larwill Street News Today

Dylan Pelfrey, 19, is faces four felonies, including murder, for the shooting death of 28-year-old Wooster resident Blair Snyder.

Officials are investigating after a fire broke out on the back side of the same East Larwill Street property where a man was fatally shot last Friday.

Blair Snyder, 28, was shot in the chest on E. Larwill Street, according to a new release from Wooster police.

UPDATE: Wayne sheriffs advice and more cancellations of schools and events as Wayne, Ashland and Holmes counties get ready for Winter Storm Landon.

This snow parking ban will remain in effect until 8 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 17, or until the snow has been sufficiently cleared

BITS AND PIECES: Wooster’s longest operating funeral home Ann Gasbarre Sleek wrote that the first McIntire Funeral Home started in 1902 when A.C. McIntire became associated with the Christine Brothers Funeral Parlor ... operating at the time in rooms above the McIntire Furniture Store on West Liberty Street. Several years later, the establishment became known as Danford, McIntire and Nixon Funeral Home ... then as McIntire and Nixon. In 1927, McIntire became the sole owner and in the early 19...

Wayne County road projects The Wayne County Engineer’s Office will service over 135 miles of county roads this year. It also plans to replace nine large culverts. Projects currently disrupting traffic are on Dalton Fox Lake Road and South Elyria Road. Dalton Fox Lake Road (County Road 32) between Church Road and Burkhard Road Project: Culvert replacement Time frame: 30 days Detour: Traveling on Church Road, turn north onto state Route 94 then east onto Burton City Road. Reverse the directions...

Wooster set to remove brick crosswalks on Beall Avenue Exit of walkways part of 2022 repaving plan WOOSTER  The streetscape on Beall Avenue soon will feature a few fewer bricks. City Council approved a resolution to move forward with the removal of the crosswalks on Beall Avenue between Bloomington Drive and Bowman Street. The removal will include the crosswalks both parallel and perpendicular to Beall. The removal process comes in anticipation of the repaving project on Beall Avenue schedul...

WOOSTER — A group of community-minded people are looking to make a difference in the city by bringing affordable housing to the area. Chad Boreman, Justin Starlin and Tom White, along with several silent partners, would achieve the goal by investing in dilapidated houses and vacant lots. Investors are testing the model by constructing a single home in the 500 block of Larwill Street to see how the housing market responds. The development group is not expecting the plan, in the early stages,...