Huron News

Excerpt from the Viewpoint editorial in today's Register, May 29, 2012: Attorney Dane Gashen's work on behalf of the Huron school board and attorney Marc Fishel's labor work for the city of Sandusky are just two recent examples how the public is kept in the dark, but the practice of billing taxpayers without informing them is rampant.

US 224, between State Route 60 and State Route 58, is closed for the replacement of multiple culverts and resurfacing work.

So says Huron Schools superintendent Fred Fox's attorney, and one of the school board members who adamantly opposed a vote to send an investigation into allegations made against Fox to a higher authority for review.

Lisa Beursken, the county's solid waste district coordinator, said cost issues and new state environmental regulations are forcing the site's closure.

Lake Erie yellow perch and walleye fishing is good all along the Ohio shoreline, with trophy walleye a definite possibility while trolling spinner rigs and nightcrawlers in many near-shore areas.

Huron school board members upheld a 10-day suspension of a longtime bus driver at an appeals hearing Tuesday night.

Amherst resident Maryann Cocca-Leffler's musical, "Princess K.I.M. the Musical," won the second annual Ronald M. Ruble New Play Festival in Ohio.

US 224, between State Route 60 and State Route 58, is closed for the replacement of multiple culverts and resurfacing work.

The Lorain County General Health District's Vital Statistics Office houses the birth and death records beginning in 1908 to the present.

The Huron Water Department has issued a boil alert for residents near Forest Hills, Valleyview and Hickory drives for Tuesday, May 8. The water department will depressurize the waterline along those roads from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. to make a system connection to the water main.

Construction workers at Huron's ConAgra site have closed off an area where, just days ago, chunks of concrete plummeted from a silo and nearly crushed a person.

Once spring arrives, cooking and eating habits change. We make way for bright, delicate tastes and move away from the hearty, longer-cooking vegetables that carried us through the winter.

At the request of prosecutors, a judge has dismissed charges against an Ohio man who was among members of a southern Michigan militia accused of conspiring to attack the government.

An Erie County grand jury has indicted a Norwalk woman who allegedly scammed her boss out of $15,000 last year.