The Putnam County Health Department is now offering on-site COVID vaccinations for businesses.

The department says it now has nursing staff available to help organize and/or provide vaccination for COVID-19 on-site for employees and their families.

The health department says it has Pfizer in stock and some Moderna vaccine and can get more of either depending on a business’s preference.

Businesses would have to sign up at least a week before so the health department can make sure they have enough vaccines.

Businesses interested should contact the Putnam County Health Department at 419-523-5608 ext. 107.

Ohio’s COVID vaccination dashboard shows that around 12,000 people in the county — about 35 percent — have started the vaccination process.

(ONN) – Democrats in the Ohio House have unveiled several legislative gun control priorities, though the measures face an uphill battle in a Republican-dominated legislature where lawmakers have pushed to ease many weapons restrictions.

The proposals include universal background checks for gun purchases and a so-called “red flag” law allowing the temporary removal of guns from individuals deemed a risk to themselves or others.

House minority leader Emilia Strong Sykes of Akron says the proposals would reduce gun violence and save lives.

She said shootings have only increased in Ohio since the August 2019 mass shooting in Dayton that killed nine.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol and Ohio Department of Transportation gave an update on the effectiveness of the Distracted Driving Safety Corridor that was implemented on Interstate 75 in March of 2020.

We asked Lt. Tim Grigsby (video below) if the corridor, that stretches from Findlay to Beaverdam, is accomplishing what they hoped it would.

“It has, it’s driven injury and fatal crashes down. We haven’t had a single fatality in this particular corridor in the time it’s been active.”

Lt. Grigsby says the purpose of the corridor is two-fold: to educate drivers about the dangers of distracted driving and to make them aware of law enforcement’s intense focus on stopping it.

The 20-mile stretch of highway includes signs that inform drivers that they’re entering the corridor and there is zero tolerance for unsafe driving behaviors.

The signs also inform drivers of the dangers of driving distracted with one of the signs reading “this could be your last text”.

The I-75 corridor is the second Distracted Driving Safety Corridor in northwest Ohio with the other being established on U.S. 6 in Wood, Sandusky and Henry Counties in 2018.

April is national Distracted Driving Awareness Month.

While there’s no more snow in our forecast, there is another Freeze Warning.

The National Weather Service says Findlay and Hancock County will be under a Freeze Warning from 10 p.m. Wednesday until 10 a.m. Thursday.

Forecasters say sub-freezing temperatures as low as 26 are expected.

Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing.

Findlay picked up some snow Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.

It collected on grassy surfaces but had trouble sticking to the pavement.

The heavy, wet snow did bring down some branches.

It will be very cold when you wake up Thursday morning but the temp will rebound to the upper 40s along with mostly sunny skies.

And then we’ll be treated to a high around 60 on Friday.

Findlay also picked up some April snow last year.

There’s been a big drop in the number of active COVID cases in Hancock County.

In the latest numbers released by Hancock Public Health on Tuesday, there were 85 active cases in the county, which is down from 170 cases on April 9th.

Active cases are defined as cases currently under quarantine or in isolation.

Five people were hospitalized with the virus in Hancock County as of Tuesday, which is down from 11 on April 9th.

Click here for information on scheduling a vaccination through Hancock Public Health and here through Blanchard Valley Health System.