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After more than 50 years of dodge ball tournaments, exercise classes and pickup games, The Village Network plans to demolish and reconstruct the Boys’ Village gym to build a more functional, [...]

Amanda Longworth is a clinical therapist at Boys’ Village Campus and began working for The Village Network in 2005. In our interview with her, Amanda talks about her deep care and commitment to [...]

Boys’ Village is going green. Starting late August, the Gault Youth and Family Enrichment Center will be retrofitted with new, energy-efficient LED lights, reducing the building’s carbon [...]

The Village Network began its new Entrepreneurship Program this year and will feature the program at its annual Celebration Day event at Boys’ Village. Youth involved in the program will sell [...]

Across from the newly renovated Welker Smucker Culinary Arts Center stands a building trapped in the past. Built in the 1960’s, the Boys’ Village gymnasium is showing its age. The exterior has [...]

The newly remodeled Welker Smucker Culinary Arts Center was named after Welker Smucker, a man who devoted his retired life to serving the youth at Boys’ Village. Smucker retired from The J.M. [...]

Built in the 1960’s, the Welker Smucker Culinary Arts Center has served a variety of purposes. What began as a service building at Boys’ Village in Wooster, Ohio morphed into a place for staff [...]