News Staff The Ohio Turnpike has announced the eight winners of its second annual Name-a-Snowplow contest. Each winner will receive a $100 dollar cash gift card. A snowplow truck will be named at the each of the Ohio Turnpike’s eight maintenance buildings, including Swanton. More than 5,500 snowplow names were submitted to ohioturnpike.org from Oct. 24 to … Read more
A commercial insurance policy doesn’t cover the income a business lost when the governor ordered a shutdown early in the COVID-19 pandemic, that’s what the Ohio Supreme Court rules in a decision…consistent with multiple court rulings nationally weighing similar questions. The state’s high court found that the temporary presence of COVID-19 in a community or … Read more
Paulding County deputies were dispatched to Road 123, in Latty Township, for a welfare check. Co-workers of 60-year-old Celecitas Williams were concerned she had not reported to work for two days, she hadn’t called in and she had not answered her phone. While conducting a check of the property, deputies located Celecitas and her 81-year-old … Read more
A Waterloo man loses control of his truck and hits a utility pole in a solo crash in DeKalb County. 61-year-old David Richie was heading west on County Road 28 when he left the roadway…smashing into a utility pole before coming to a stop in a field. Richie was able to get out the vehicle … Read more
Two people are in the hospital after they were hurt in a two vehicle crash in DeKalb County…at the intersection of County Road 40 and County Road 61. Officials tell reporters…a woman…eastbound on County Road 40 ran a stop sign at the intersection…colliding into a pickup truck heading north on County Road 61. The pickup … Read more
The latest proposal to give Ohio’s governor more power overseeing K-12 education clears the Republican-led state Senate despite objections that lawmakers are rushing legislation to significantly change decision-making about academic standards, model curricula and school district ratings, among other things. Oversight of the state’s education department would shift to a director appointed by the governor, … Read more
Ohio’s historical society can proceed with efforts to gain control of a set of ancient ceremonial and burial earthworks currently maintained by a country club where members golf alongside the mounds but access to the public is limited, the state Supreme Court rules. At issue before the court were the 2,000-year-old Octagon Earthworks in Newark. … Read more
A Paulding man gets sentenced in a Paulding County courtroom on two sexual abuse charges. Jay Watson, 55, was given an eight-year prison term by Judge Tiffany Beckman for sexual battery and gross sexual imposition, each a third-degree felony. He was also classified as a tier III sexual offender and given credit for 148 days … Read more
The waterline extension project for Airmate is completed after the Bryan Board of Public Affairs approved the last change order this week. The Airmate Company has planned to expand its 40,000-square-foot facility, on County Road D, by about 26,000 square feet to accommodate increased demand. To meet safety codes, the facility needed a more robust … Read more
The Village of Montpelier appears to be in line for more than $320,000 dollars in Community Development Block Grant funds for work on the Cranberry Run sewer line. Officials told county commissioners during an online video conference call Monday…the hearing was held on a request by Montpelier to apply for $322,700 dollars of Critical Infrastructure … Read more