The open house will be about a proposed multi-use path on Lincoln Street and lane configuration changes to Blanchard Street.

Findlay Service Director, Brian Thomas, said that these changes will increase safety in the corridor….

Thomas said they had a safety study done on Blanchard Street to determine the number of crashes that should be expected….

The open house will be on Wednesday, August 21st from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in council chambers at the municipal building.

Legacy Farmers Co-Operative’s Stacie Anderson says the financial burdens on farmers are far from over.

And it’s not just farmers.

She adds that Legacy Farmers Co-Operative is looking at a $10 to $15 million loss this year.

According to Anderson, it will trickle even further since northwest Ohio is a major provider of the state’s corn supply. She says we will see the effects carry over to the state and federal levels as well.

A local educator is a finalist for 2020 Ohio Teacher of the Year.

Tonya Thorbahn is an Intervention Specialist at Bigelow Hill Intermediate School in Findlay.

In July she was announced as the Teacher of the Year for State Board of Education District 1.

And now she has been named as one of four finalists for Ohio Teacher of the Year, which will be awarded in the fall.

Thorbahn has 12 years of experience in educating students with special needs in the third, fourth and fifth grade and is considered a leader amongst her peers, said Linda Haycock, the State Board’s District 1 representative.

“As an Intervention Specialist for grades 4-5 at Findlay Bigelow Hill Intermediate, Ms. Thorbahn has three guiding principles: first, to treat each student as she would treat her own children; second, to focus on what each student can do not what they can’t; and third, to engage each student so they can guide their own learning,” Haycock said.

A panel of education and community stakeholders will select the 2020 Ohio Teacher of the Year early this upcoming school year.

That educator will represent the state in the national Teacher of the Year competition.

The City of Bluffton experienced a rash of break-ins to end the month of July.

The Bluffton Icon is reporting that on July 25th the police department received several reports of breaking and entering crimes throughout the town.

And then four days later there was a breaking and entering at the university bookstore.

Police say the break-ins are being actively investigated and anyone with information is urged to contact them at 419-358-2961.

The Seneca County Board of Health has approved Sunny Farms Landfill’s 2019 license.

The Review Times is reporting that the approval came at a special meeting Monday night.

The controversial landfill in Fostoria will have to reapply for its 2020 license in the fall, but it was granted the 2019 license after making improvements and coming to a consent agreement with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.

The paper is reporting that the health board met Monday night to explore its options after all of its members had a chance to read the agreement, which has been filed in Seneca County Common Pleas Court and addresses the landfill’s handling of air and solid-waste issues.

A few weeks back, the board postponed a hearing regarding the landfill’s license after learning of the consent agreement, which established strict requirements for the landfill to meet and also included fines of around $3.7 million.

The Hancock County Sheriff’s office says the accident happened around 3:30 p.m. Saturday on U.S. 68 near County Road 24.

18-year-old Holly Lee was heading south on the road when she rear-ended a motorcycle ridden by 49-year-old Daniel Harmon and 50-year-old Kerri Harmon.

Daniel and Kerri were not wearing helmets and were taken to Blanchard Valley Hospital with unknown injuries.

The motorcycle sustained disabling damage.

The head of the Findlay chapter of the American Red Cross is in Dayton as the organization is assisting the community after the deadly shooting over the weekend.

A gunman killed nine people and wounded many more in a popular entertainment district early Sunday.

Todd James is the executive director of the North Central Ohio chapter of the American Red Cross based in Findlay.

With the tornado outbreak in May, and now the mass shooting, James says the Dayton community has really had a rough few months.

“This entire community is really rallying around each other and those affected, doing everything they can to help, so it’s an honor to be a little part of that,” James told WFIN’s Chris Oaks.

James is encouraging people to donate blood anytime they can, to help people affected by natural disasters and also tragedies like mass shootings.

Findlay’s Battle of the Badges blood drive between the police and fire departments is coming up on Monday, August 12th.

Former Governor John Kasich is urging Ohio lawmakers to pass Red Flag gun laws in the wake of the deadly mass shooting in Dayton over the weekend.

Kasich appeared on CNN on Sunday afternoon and urged the Ohio legislature to pass a series of laws he supported which would allow courts to remove guns from people deemed mentally unstable.

Kasich was unable to get bipartisan support for the law and used executive orders to implement some of its provisions.

In April, Governor Mike DeWine asked lawmakers to work on a law that would use due process to prevent violating the rights of gun owners but also increase public safety.

Meantime, Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown is calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to call the Senate in for an emergency vote on a gun bill.

At a news conference in Dayton, Brown asked for the upper chamber to be called back into session following the deaths of 29 people in mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.

The Democratic-led House recently passed legislation on universal background checks, but it has not been brought up for a vote by McConnell.

The Senate adjourned last week for its annual August recess, and no votes are currently scheduled before September 9th.

An educator in Fostoria was arrested in connection with a domestic violence allegation involving his wife.

The Courier is reporting that Michael K. Daring, the assistant principal of Fostoria Junior-Senior High School was booked at the Hancock County Jail on a charge of domestic violence, a first-degree misdemeanor.

The paper is reporting that an incident report states that Daring allegedly pushed his wife several times during an argument, grabbed her neck and called her vulgar names.

Get more details by reading The Courier’s full article here.