Ottawa News

FREMONT - John Kasich, candidate for Governor of Ohio, will be the speaker at the Ottawa, Sandusky and Seneca Counties' Lincoln Day Dinner on Thursday, February 18, in Fremont at Crystal Arbors, 2270 West Hayes Avenue.

By JOY BROWN STAFF WRITER Findlay and Ottawa officials will travel to Washington, D.C., next week to continue flood control lobbying efforts.

Norma E. Moore, 88, died at 1:25 p.m. Feb. 3, 2010, at The Meadows of Leipsic in Leipsic.

The Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge will offer self-guided driving tours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb.

The 2010 winter term schedule: Snavely's Sugar Shack -- March 14 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This maple sugar business is worked by the seventh generation of Snavelys.

By JIM MAURER Staff Writer OTTAWA -- A resolution to lease the Putnam County waste transfer station to a private company was defeated this week by the county commissioners.

By JORDAN CRAVENS staff writer OTTAWA -- A former Lima man, serving time for fatally stabbing a Putnam County man in 1989, "poses a significant danger to society" if paroled from prison after 20 years, according to a Putnam County judge.

I received a note from old friend and classmate Dick Mullins, who provided us with the information for our Memorial Day story on Bill Matthews, the first local resident who was killed in action in Vietnam.

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Order forms for the Ottawa Soil and Water Conservation District 2010 Seedling Tree and Shrub Sale are now available by calling 419-898-1595 or visiting www.ottawaswcd.com. Evergreen varieties in packets of 10 for this year include: Colorado Blue Spruce, Norway Spruce and American Arborvitae.

The New Year's resolutions made such a short time ago may look a bit ragged just now.

By MICHELLE REITER STAFF WRITER OTTAWA -- Forest Gordon, a former police chief in Kalida and Ottawa, spent hours engaged in sex chats on a Kalida Police Department computer, a special prosecutor said Tuesday in Putnam County Common Pleas Court.

FREMONT -- John Kasich, candidate for governor of Ohio, will be the speaker at the Ottawa, Sandusky and Seneca counties Lincoln Day on Feb.

By JIM MAURER Staff Writer OTTAWA -- By January 2011, construction of a $2.8 million Putnam County District Library in Ottawa is expected to be done.

Residents in the WSOS four-county service area might soon have access to a number of new programs after the board Tuesday voted to seek fund- ing on a number of proposals.

The state is unlikely to reverse its order to close the Western Avenue crossing on Ohio 15, Ohio Department of Transportation officials said Thursday.

A Point in Time count of the number of homeless residents in Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca and Wood counties will be conducted Jan.

Authorities in Putnam County say a man was injured after his snowmobile struck a tree Sunday.

A man was critically injured late Sunday when he lost control of his snowmobile and struck a tree.

The year 2009 was an amazing year for all the wrong reasons, U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan said Thursday in a speech at GreaterFindlayInc.'s Business Roundtable Discussion.