News Staff For the 33rd time, Bryan is recognized as a Tree City USA…at the 2022 Northwest Ohio awards ceremony, held in Findlay. The awards were presented to area Tree City and Tree Campus USA communities by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry. The featured speaker was Tyler Stevenson, urban forestry program coordinator with … Read more
Partisan mapmakers in Ohio made distinctly emotional pleas to the Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday, as justices once again weigh whether to hold the state’s redistricting commission in contempt. The bipartisan commission has sent five different plans for state legislative districts to the high court. Four were invalidated and, on the fifth time around, the … Read more
Federal attorneys announce…a federal grand jury returns a six-count indictment, charging Ankita Singh, 39, with fraudulently billing Medicare $8.4 million dollars. She was a state-licensed physician practicing in Maumee and Toledo. From June 2018 to May 2021, she is accused of her role in the scheme. Prosecutors say…telemarketers and call centers would contact Medicare beneficiaries … Read more
Jeff Slattery, the principal of Hicksville High School…is named superintendent of the Four County Career Center. Slattery takes over for Tim Meister, Four County Superintendent since 2012, who announced his retirement earlier this year, effective Dec. 31. Slattery begins his new duties the next day. Slattery is a lifelong Hicksville resident and graduate of Hicksville … Read more
A 14-year-old girl is killed…after another teen opens fire into a crowd of people on a Toledo street corner. Police responded to reports of the shooting in North Toledo…and found 14-year-old Zhonasia Ticey wounded. She was rushed to St. Vincent’s…where she later died, officials say. Jeano Lampkin, 18, was arrested within hours and charged with … Read more
The Edgerton Village Council awards bids for rehabilitating the water towers and for installing sidewalks on Oak Street during a special meeting. D & M Painting Corporation, out of Washington, Pennsylvania, had the lowest bid for a complete rehabilitation of the interior and exterior of both of the village’s water towers at $645,120. D & … Read more
A former teacher, district superintendent and higher education leader is named Ohio’s new state superintendent. Stephen Dackin is a former vice president of the Ohio State Board of Education,…which voted 14-4 with one abstention to approve his hiring to oversee public K-12 education in the state. Dackin succeeds former Superintendent Paolo DeMaria, who retired in … Read more
Ohio’s Republican leaders want to call a time out in the battle over state legislative maps…at least until after this fall’s general elections…and asked the state’s high court to pause the legal back-and-forth with voting rights and Democratic groups. By a bipartisan 4-3 majority, the Ohio Supreme Court has so far tossed out four sets … Read more
A man is suing the company that provides health care services at the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio, saying he’s dying from cancer after receiving negligent health care. The complaint, filed last month in Williams County Common Pleas Court, claims Damien Thomas was held at CCNO in late 2019, when he started to experience rectal … Read more
The Nature Conservancy is celebrating the completion of a project that restored 280 acres of marginal farmland to native wet prairie habitat, northeast of Swanton. Officials say…to date, it is the largest effort in the region to return this type of rare wetland habitat to the landscape. The restoration site, known as the Sandhill Crane … Read more