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AquaBounty Update

The FDA will be holding a public meeting….concerning the environmental assessment for AquaBounty on Thursday. The public meeting starts at 1 p.m. and concerns the draft amended Environmental Assessment for the company’s genetically modified salmon. AquaBounty intends to build a farm in Pioneer that will produce 10,000 tons of genetically …

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New Names

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 …

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Insurance Doesn’t Cover Covid

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 …

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Murder Case In PC

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 …

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Man OK After Wreck

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 …

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Injury Accident In DKC

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 …

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Education Battle Clears Hurdle

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 …

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Mounds Efforts Continue

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 …

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Watson Case Update

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 …

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It’s Done

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 …

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