8/22/18 – 5:26 A.M.

A two-car crash injured one person in Findlay Tuesday morning. The Findlay Police Department says 23-year-old Samantha Way hit the back of a car driven by 20-year-old Conor Oldacker of Findlay in the 1500 block of Tiffin Avenue. Oldacker had slowed for traffic ahead of him.

The collision happened around 8:20 a.m. Hanco EMS took Way to Blanchard Valley Hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening facial injuries

Officers cited Way for failure to maintain an assured clear distance ahead.

8/22/18 – 5:09 A.M.
Update – 6:32 A.M. (Corrects omission of Auditor Jim Staschiak’s title)

A debate is brewing over whether Findlay should sell a city-owned building near downtown. The Courier reports Findlay Safety Director Paul Schmelzer spoke in favor of selling the empty facility at 428 West Main Cross Street Tuesday. His comments came on the same day a letter to the editor from Auditor Jim Staschiak criticized the idea. Staschiak said he stood against, “spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars only to sell certain properties at a fraction of the cost the public shelled out for them.” Schmelzer says the city didn’t turn the space into a health department because the price tag was $500,000.

The city bought the building in 2011. The property also includes two dilapidated structures. Mayor Lydia Mihalik said investors who have been renovating and building along West Main Cross Street want something done with the property. In his letter, Staschiak said the city should maintain the property “to the standards we are aggressively enforcing on our citizens these days.”

Council members will tour the site at 5 p.m. on August 30th before making a decision.

08/22/18 – 3 A,M,

Findlay City Council passed a resolution to repair a broken water main and some asphalt in the parking lot of the Tiffin Avenue Goodwill. Service Director Brian Thomas explained that the break caused some damage.

Brian Thomas

Council approved the repairs and allocated $30,000 for them.

08/22/18 – 3 A.M.

The City of Findlay is partnering with Campbell Soup and Autoliv for development of their site and roadway improvements. Service director Brian Thomas explained that the companies are in charge of making the improvements..

Brian Thomas

Thomas said that the companies will give the city their expense reports and get reimbursed through state grant money. He added that this isn’t the first time the city has done work like this.

Brian Thomas

Council appropriated more than $288,400 of grant money so that the two companies could get their projects started.

08/21/18 – 5:46 P.M.

The Findlay-Hancock County Public Library has a new way for people to exercise while getting some reading done. The library has partnered with the Hancock County Park District and the City of Findlay to start a StoryWalk in Riverside Park. The walk will allow you to walk to seventeen displays around the park. Each display will have pages from a children’s picture book so by the end, you will have read the whole book. The library will change the stories monthly.