4/23/19 – 5:02 A.M.

The Hancock County ADAMHS Board is getting $500,000 from the state to help build a new recovery house for pregnant women and their children in Findlay. The Ohio Controlling Board released the funds on Monday. With financing secured, ADAMHS executive director Precia Stuby says they are entering into a contract with a general contractor.

The more than 2,800 square foot facility will be at 2475 Crystal Avenue. It will include three one-bedroom apartments for women and their babies, as well as an apartment for an onsite manager. Women taking part in the Maternal Opiate Medical Support, or MOMS program will live in the apartments.

MORE: Why it’s important to have recovery housing for pregnant women.

04/22/19 – 3:39 P.M.

AEP Ohio is going to be using an aerial saw to trim trees along electric transmission line routes in northwest Ohio. The work will take place later this month and over the summer. Aerial Solutions, Inc. will handle the work for AEP. Crews will work during daylight hours Monday through Saturday using a helicopter to access the limbs that are difficult to reach from the ground.

Customers should not experience interruptions in electrical service. We have a picture of the work route on our website.

04/22/19 – 2:48 P.M.
Update – 4/23/19 – 5:23 A.M.

A collision between a Hanco EMS ambulance and a box truck sent the ambulance through the front of a former restaurant late Monday morning. Findlay Fire Chief Josh Eberle reports that the ambulance driven by 28-year-old Tyler Pier of Findlay was transporting a patient southbound on North Main street when a truck driven by 38-year-old Maximillian Hereford of Toledo hit it.

The impact of the collision pushed the ambulance into the vacant building at 1331 North Main Street.

Pier received treatment at the scene of the crash. Another ambulance came to take the patient to the hospital. Hereford wasn’t hurt in the crash. Police cited him for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle.

The building is vacant and the utilities are off because QQ Garden moved to a new location last year.

4/22/19 – 8:23 A.M.

Local gas prices have come down a bit following weeks of increases. OhioGasPrices.com reports the average price in Findlay today is $2.51 per gallon. That down 23 cents from last Monday.

The statewide average has dropped four cents over the last week, down to $2.63 per gallon today.

Drivers in Ottawa report paying slightly more than the state average, at $2.65 per gallon. That’s the same as last Monday’s prices in Ottawa.

4/22/19 – 8:15 A.M.

Arbor Day is coming up this week, and Findlay has a celebration planned. The event will take place at St. Michael the Archangel School at 723 Sutton Place this Thursday at 1 p.m.

Students at the school will present a program about Arbor Day and Mayor Christina Muryn will issue a proclamation for the day.

Arbor Day also serves as the start of the Findlay Shade Tree Commission’s 2019 tree-planting program. Residents in the Shinkle Street neighborhood will plant trees this coming weekend as a part of the effort.

4/22/19 – 7:51 A.M.

Pandora’s village council recently moved forward with a plan to oversee village credit card usage. The Putnam County Sentinel reports the village is moving forward with the ordinance to get in line with the Ohio Revised Code. The law sets safeguards designed to protect against credit card abuse. It mandates that local governments have policies in place that say who can use the cards, and how they can use them.

Pandora council also voted to rescind two previous credit card policy ordinances. They’ll have a second reading of the new policy at their Tuesday night meeting this week.

MORE: Putnam County Sentinel

4/22/19 – 7:37 A.M.

A Florida man went to the hospital following a collision between a semi and a tow truck in Hancock County over the weekend. The Hancock County Sheriff’s Office says the crash happened at the intersection of State Route 613 and Portage Township Road 136 around 2:45 p.m. Saturday.

39-year-old Wilson Pierre of Jacksonville, Florida, was driving west on State Route 613 when he tried to make a wide left turn at a bend in the road at the intersection with Township Road 136. The semi hit a tow truck driven by 46-year-old Erik Stearns of Van Buren.

The sheriff’s office has not issued any citations in the crash.

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4/22/19 – 7:26 A.M.

Fire damaged a building on Findlay’s north side over the weekend. Firefighters responded to 115 Ely Avenue around 12:20 p.m. Saturday.

Investigators say a light ballast in a suspended ceiling overheated and ignited insulation. The fire then spread to other insulation in the ceiling.

The flames caused around $3,000 worth of damage. No one was injured fighting the fire.

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