Mount Blanchard News

By JOY BROWN STAFF WRITER MOUNT BLANCHARD -- Findlay is a watery "hole in the ground" and only residents foolish enough to live there should have to pay to fix flooding problems, one man claimed Thursday night at a lively informational meeting on the proposed Blanchard River Conservancy District.

The Northwest Ohio Flood Mitigation Partnership will hold four informational meetings about its efforts to form a separate conservancy district for the Blanchard River watershed.

William H. "Bill" Spraw was Findlay's police chief for only four years, but at times it must have seemed liked an eternity.

Highway projects are expected to affect traffic on three major routes in the Findlay area this week: U.S. 224, Ohio 12 and Ohio 103.

Margaret L. Honegger, 92, died at 1:30 p.m. May 5, 2009, at Blanchard Valley Bridge Hospice Care, Findlay.

Now there's a way for Findlay residents to monitor flood waters before it even rains.

Fostoria citations Sunday: * Dustin Shaw, 21, Findlay, speed, operating a vehicle while intoxicated Saturday: * Kristen M. Pever, 18, Mt.

This morning the Hardin County Sheriff's Department is looking for a suspect who abandoned a stolen vehicle between Forest and Kenton.

Will passenger trains return to northwest Ohio someday? Plans for passenger rail service between Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati are renewing a dream that trains might someday return to Findlay, Lima, Bowling Green and other northwestern Ohio cities.

Construction of a $2.5 million sanitary sewer system in Mount Blanchard hit a snag this week when contractors hit several water lines during excavation Wednesday and Thursday.

By LOU WILIN STAFF WRITER Do you think hard times are here? Think again, say those who lived through the Great Depression.

Neither cold temperatures nor ice kept 35 Hancock County birders from spotting a record 73 species on Dec.

Terry D. Shepherd admitted Friday to breaking into the home of Claradell Keller in September, then choking the 78-year-old woman to death before setting her rural Wharton home on fire.