7/16/18 – 7:45 A.M.
Officials in Bascom broke ground for a new fire station last week. The Review-Times reports the event kicked off construction of an 11,500 square-foot building for the Bascom Joint Fire District. The new facility will have more space for maintaining the fire trucks.
It will also include room for seven fire truck bays, two EMS bays, and a decontamination area among other items.
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7/16/18 – 7:31 A.M.
Local gas prices are coming down after spiking last week. OhioGasPrices.com reports the average price in Findlay is $2.77 for a gallon of regular today. That’s down from last week’s high of $2.93 on Friday.
Prices in Ottawa are down to $2.69 per gallon after hitting $2.74 last week.
The statewide average stands at $2.83 per gallon.
7/16/18 – 6:57 A.M.
An incident at the Sulphur Lake campground in southern Hancock County resulted in a medical helicopter taking a 16-year-old Wyandot County boy to a Columbus hospital last Friday. The teenager apparently tried to retrieve a bracelet in the campground’s pond and got stuck under a dock. Witnesses say he was under water for several minutes.
The Hancock County Sheriff’s Office has not released the boy’s name or an update on his condition.
Sulphur Lake is between Arlington and Williamstown on U.S. 68.
7/16/18 – 6:47 A.M.
A group of moms are raising money to install safety devices in classrooms in Ada. The fundraising effort to install “The Boot” in district classrooms is about a quarter of the way to its $44,000 goal. The Boot is a device that prevents an intruder from opening the door.
Hancock County schools are installing the same device in every school building.
You can send donations for the project to P.O. Box 244, Ada, 45810. If you write a check, make it out to Military Order of the Purple Heart and put “Boots for Bulldogs” in the memo line.
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7/16/18 – 5:33 A.M.
Marathon Petroleum’s senior vice president of marketing is retiring later this year. The company announced last week that Thomas Kelley would step down on October 1.
In a statement, CEO Gary Heminger said, “Tom’s dedication, insight and business acumen have been tremendous assets throughout his 37-year career.” Heminger added, “He has played a particularly influential leadership role in growing our marketing organization, and his impact on MPC will be recognized long after he retires.”
Kelley started with Marathon in 1981.
7/16/18 – 5:28 A.M.
Police in Fostoria arrested a woman following a series of hit-skip crashes from over the weekend. The Review-Times reports the incident happened early Sunday morning on West Center Street. Officers found a car that hit several other vehicles around 1 a.m.
The woman in the car allowed officers to search her car and purse. Investigators took one item in her purse for testing. She could face OVI and hit-skip charges.
No other information is available yet.
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7/16/18 – 5:21 A.M.
An emergency culvert repair project has closed a Putnam County highway for the time being. ODOT says they’ve closed State Route 109 between Road G and Road F-6 north of Ottawa. A detour is set up in the area.
Elsewhere, routine roadwork is causing lane restrictions in the county. State Route 65 is down to one lane in areas between Leipsic and the Henry County line for repaving work. State Route 109 between Leipsic and the Henry County line is also seeing lane reductions for repaving.
A resurfacing project on State Route 613 between Leipsic and Continental has the highway restricted to one lane in some spots.
7/16/18 – 5:13 A.M.
There aren’t any new road projects starting in Hancock County this week, but there are some places you’ll want to avoid. U.S. 68 in Arlington remains closed between Liberty Street and the Buck Run bridge. ODOT says detours are in place.
State Route 330 over State Route 15 in Vanlue also remains closed for bridge deck replacement. ODOT is nearly two months into the four-month project there.
Elsewhere the agency is restricting State Route 613 west of McComb to one lane in areas for pavement repair.
7/16/18 – 5:01 A.M.
Findlay bicyclists will have more ways to get around in 2020. The Courier reports city council voted earlier this year to accept a $1.7 million grant from ODOT for its Transportation Alternatives Program. The grant will help extend the Blanchard River Greenway Trail, as well as create bike lanes along Blanchard and Lincoln streets.
The current greenway trail ends at 1100 East Main Cross Street. The extension will bring it all the way out to Bright Road.
Findlay Service Director Brian Thomas says the bike paths includes a separate multi-use trail along one side of Lincoln Street. That will stretch from Cory Street to Blanchard Street. There will also be separate bike lanes on Blanchard Street from Sixth Street north to the Blanchard River Greenway Trail.
Findlay has to pay 5 percent of the cost of the projects. That comes to a little more than $84,000.
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07/13/18 – 5:33 P.m.
A Findlay woman went to the hospital after a crash in Findlay. The Findlay Police Department reports the crash happened Friday around 1 p.m. at East Sandusky Street and South Blanchard Avenue.
18-year-old Tessa Bowling was turning left from South Blanchard Street onto Sandusky. 21-year-old Mackenzie Degarmo was heading straight on Blanchard at the same time and hit Bowling.
Hanco EMS took Bowling to Blanchard Valley Hospital with possible neck Injuries. Officers cited Bowling for the right of way.