Wyandot County Farm Bureau President Allan Thiel was one of 90 county presidents, leaders and members of the media who participated in a trip to Washington, D.C., last week. The county presidents’ trip to D.C. is a 70-year tradition of the Farm Bureau, according to a press release from the local group, in which county presidents and leaders advocate on behalf of farmers and landowners.
The presidents of the Ohio Corn and Wheat Growers Association and the Ohio Soybean Associated issued a joint statement following news reports last week regarding a water quality study conducted at the University of Michigan.
A storm system that moved through Wyandot County late Sunday and into Monday morning left more than 150 customers without power more than a day later, as AEP worked to restore power in the area and county employees removed tree limbs and other debris from several closed roads.
The Marion man whose story went viral after he was charged with impersonating a state senator during a presentation to a Mohawk High School history class admitted his guilt in Wyandot County Common Pleas Court on Monday.
Carol Minehart has known that that she was receiving the Rotary Club’s highest honor — the Service Above Self award — since mid-February. Even so, that did not make the honor any less humbling as her friends and family toasted and celebrated her accomplishments through her service to her family, community, church and the eighth-grade students she teaches during a dinner Monday night.
NELSONVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio prison officials say an inmate convicted of killing a woman in Cleveland has been reported missing from a southeast Ohio prison. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction on Monday confirmed the possible escape of 58-year-old John Modie from the Hocking Unit of the Southeastern Correctional Complex in Nelsonville.
COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine’s proposed replacement of the state’s computerized criminal background check system comes with a hefty price tag. Five bids ranging from $5.97 million to $17.72 million have been submitted to replace the hardware and software of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s system, The Columbus Dispatch reported.
HAMILTON (AP) — As the number of school threats increases, the financial and emotional costs are also going up. There were more than 800 shooting and bomb threats at K-12 schools during the first half of the 2014-2015 school year, Ken Trump, president of the Cleveland-based National School Safety and Security Services, told the Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News (http://bit.ly/1q2H4C7) recently. Ohio had …
The Eric Sowers Band, led by Sycamore native Eric Sowers performed songs from their new eight-song CD “My Kind of Country” to a nearly full lower level at the Ritz Theater in Tiffin during a CD release party Saturday night.
Ralph O. Cook, Marion, charged by the patrol with possession of drug paraphernalia, pleaded no contest, found guilty. Lazaro L. Diaz, Fort Myers, Florida, charged by the sheriff with possession of drug paraphernalia, amended plea to no contest, finding deferred on conditions.