Aquifer Opponents Lose Round 1

The Williams County Common Pleas Court supports the county elections board, dealing a blow to efforts by a local grassroots residents group to qualify a county charter issue for the November general election ballot. The charter would switch the county from its current statutory form of government to one governed by a county charter…as a way to create home rule…in a battle to stop the proposal to pump water out of the aquifer to sell to towns in the region.