News Staff Ohio’s five public employee retirement funds have a moral imperative to divest themselves of Russian financial holdings…to further punish the country over its invasion of Ukraine…that’s what state Attorney General Dave Yost told reporters on Wednesday. Yost directed the five funds to identify Russian equities and divest as quickly as possible. The request is nonbinding, … Read more
The Northwest State Community College Board of Trustees approves legislation to bring a campus to the city of Van Wert. The board okayed the purchase of the E. Sycamore St. location, for $495,000, pending an appraisal. Northwest State is planning to use the plot to launch a full-service campus in Paulding and Van Wert counties.
The Bryan Fire Department responded to more calls for service during 2021 than in any year before. The total number was 526, officials say. That’s a 27% increase from the 413 calls in 2020. They add…the department is on pace for similarly high numbers this year. The number of calls for fires was down, from … Read more
Ohio is another year older with the celebration of its 219th birthday. The Ohio History Connection planned a commemoration event Tuesday at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, including the introduction of the state commission involved with the 250th birthday of the United States in 2026. Gov., DeWine introduced the commission’s co-chairs. The Statehouse also was … Read more
The CCNO board agrees to split $1.4 million dollars in leftover funds from its 2021 operating budget…and deposit $720 thousand, each, into its capital and reserve funds. The figure is attributed to higher fees to the regional jail for federal inmates from the U.S. Marshal’s Office housed at CCNO, in 2021…and from lower than usual … Read more
Defiance County commissioners approve a new contract for electricity supplied to county facilities. The pact with Dynegy was OK’d following discussions with Amy Hoffman of Palmer Energy. She is a consultant with the County Commissioners Association of Ohio and assists county commissioners in approving new electric contracts that allow savings on power supplies by those … Read more
A Northwest Ohio district has won top tap prize at an international water tasting contest. Montpelier takes home first place for Best Municipal Water at the 32nd annual Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting in West Virginia. This is the fifth time Montpelier has won the prize.
Medicaid enrollees in Ohio can begin selecting from among a new slate of managed care plans, beginning today. As part of the Ohio Medicaid Next Generation initiative, millions of enrollees in the government health care program for low-income Americans must choose from seven managed care plans or be assigned one. Next Generation is scheduled to … Read more
An extraordinary showdown…that would have brought a high-powered line-up of Ohio’s political mapmakers before justices of the Ohio Supreme Court…was continued Friday, after the state’s Republican-controlled redistricting panel delivered the court a third set of legislative maps…that its majority insists are now constitutional. The decision did not end the fight over the maps, though. The … Read more
A third person implicated in a robbery and assault in Defiance last spring has been sentenced to prison. Emilee Slusser, of Bradford, is given a four- to six-year sentence. She was given credit for 50 days served in the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio while her case was pending. Two other co-defendants…Shawn Curtzwiler…and Slusser’s brother, … Read more