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Chief Markets’ parent company, Fresh Encounter, in collaboration with their customers, announce $81,000 charitable contribution.

In Findlay, Chief Markets’ parent company, Fresh Encounter, in collaboration with their customers, announce an $81,000 dollar charitable contribution to local food banks and mental health organizations as part of Giving Tuesday. The donation is designed to address food insecurity and promote mental well-being in the community, with a total …

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Legal battle over the maps of Ohio Statehouse districts that were crafted in response to the 2020 Census may be over.

The more than two-year legal battle over the maps of Ohio Statehouse districts that were crafted in response to the 2020 Census may be over. In a 4-3 ruling, the Ohio Supreme Court cited unanimous, bipartisan passage in September of a new round of legislative maps in dismissing three long-running …

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Voters in most unincorporated areas of Williams County will vote in March on whether they want to allow electric aggregation to be available.

Voters in most unincorporated areas of Williams County will vote in March on whether they want to allow electric aggregation to be available. The issue will not appear on the ballots for voters in Center and Springfield townships, however, as those areas have previously voted to allow electric aggregation. According …

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Village of Montpelier puts an end to a series of projects spanning decades.

Officials for the Village of Montpelier put an end to a series of projects spanning decades at the village council’s meeting. The village has been under a long-term control plan through the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for several decades in order to complete combined sewer overflow projects, which separates storm …

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Bryan City Council poised to limit the sale and cultivation of adult use cannabis within the city limits.

Rather than banning the sale and cultivation of adult use cannabis within the city limits, Bryan City Council seems poised to limit those actions. Council previously had two ordinances it was considering that would have banned the sale and cultivation of adult, recreational use marijuana, which was approved earlier this …

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Preliminary injunction is sought to broaden the scope of a health or life exception to Indiana’s near-total abortion ban.

Abortion providers and a pregnancy resource center sought a preliminary injunction to broaden the scope of a health or life exception to Indiana’s near-total abortion ban and to expand the sites where the procedures can be performed. The ban outlaws abortion even in cases presenting a serious health risk and …

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Ohio’s new constitutional protections for abortion access and other reproductive rights are supposed to take effect Dec. 7.

Ohio’s new constitutional protections for abortion access and other reproductive rights are supposed to take effect Dec. 7, a month after voters resoundingly passed them. That prospect seems increasingly uncertain. Existing abortion-related lawsuits are moving again through the courts now that voters have decided the issue, raising questions about how …

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Budget time in Bryan.

The Bryan Board of Public Affairs is presented with the Bryan Municipal Utilities proposed budgets for 2024. On the electric side, operations and management shows a total of $21 million dollars in revenue, with $20 million of that coming from charges for service. Electric expenses are being proposed at $19.2 …

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Williams County Board of Elections certifies election results.

The Williams County Board of Elections certifies the results of this month’s election, resulting in no changes to outcomes. The board had two meetings Tuesday, one in the morning involved certifying the provisional ballots cast in the Nov. 7 General Election. Officials say…they had a total of 163 provisional ballots, …

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Backers of a proposal to change Ohio’s political mapmaking system can start gathering signatures

Backers of a proposal to change Ohio’s troubled political mapmaking system will finally be able to start gathering signatures, after clearing a second round of state approvals this week. Citizens Not Politicians now has until July 3 to collect roughly 414,000 signatures required to put its constitutional amendment before voters …

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