Castalia News

Sandusky county sheriff Monday CHARGE - Brian T. Hammer, 42, 2260 N. Ohio 300, Gibsonburg, domestic violence.

Christmas is past, but Clyde's Santa and Mrs. Claus are still on active duty, making deliveries in Michigan.

At 2 a.m. Friday, Carrie Van Hoose arrived at Walmart looking for deal on a video game.

An engagement is announced for Mary Ann Solem, daughter of Chester Solem and Jean Solem, both of Port Clinton, and Chadrick Charles Mitchell, son of Charles "Bud" Mitchell, Sandusky, and Marykay Whitmore, Castalia.

Because of the uncertainty about whether Congress will extend the COBRA subsidy, Phil Lebherz, the executive director of the Foundation for Health Coverage Education, urges jobless workers not to drop their COBRA coverage until they have been approved for another plan.

An auto parts employee laid off from his job last year has been able to hang onto his health insurance because the federal government has picked up most of the tab.

Rebirth Community Church is hosting a Prayer and Meditation Time from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday at 570 S. McKinley Drive, Port Clinton.

Just before Don Hall and his family left town for Thanksgiving, the laid-off manufacturing supervisor from Castalia, Ohio, wrote a $763.81 check to his health insurance company for his December payment.

CASTALIA -- With the Margaretta school district levy failing in both Sandusky and Erie counties, Superintendent Ed Kurt said officials will have to worry about school programs being cut next year.

CASTALIA -- Margaretta High School senior Brooke Sargent recently auditioned for and was accepted into the Ohio Music Education Association All-State Band.

1:55 p.m. Daniel Hillabrand, 31, of Bowling Green was arrested for aggravated menacing within the 400th block of S. Church St.

CASTALIA -- A Halloween Family Fun Night will be Saturday at Kandi-Land Stables, 5414 Tiffin Ave.

A retired Sandusky assistant police chief is Swanton Village Council's choice to head its police department.

CASTALIA - Paul Wendt scored five goals and Marc-Kevin Krischer added three more as St.

CASTALIA -- Kelly Bryant produced two goals and two assists as Oak Harbor defeated Margaretta 9-2 during a Sandusky Bay Conference match Monday.

There have been a spate of vehicle-pedestrian accidents during the past two weeks.

PERKINS TOWNSHIP - A teenager died Tuesday after being hit by a car driven by a Castalia resident Monday night while rollerblading.

Findlay's Chad Kemenah got the 'brakes' he needed at Fremont Speedway on Saturday to wrap up racing at the track for the season on Hillside Billiards Night.

The Woodmore Local School District's levy passed Tuesday, but the Margaretta Local School District's levy failed.

A two-vehicle crash this afternoon sent two drivers to the hospital. The highway patrol reports that Jean Kromer, 82, of Sandusky, turned her car left in front of a northbound truck on St.