Ottawa County News

PORT CLINTON -- A Fremont man was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for breaking into a Clay Township home.

OTTAWA COUNTY - All trails at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge will be closed for managed deer hunts Nov.

The Ottawa County Helping Hand Toy Drive - a collaborative effort of The Salvation Army, Toys for Tots "Weapons Company 124" and Ottawa County Holiday Bureau - is now under way.

Ottawa County celebrated Parent's Week with a kickoff breakfast in Port Clinton Tuesday, Oct.

On Monday a local woman was still in the Ottawa County Detention Facility after she was arrested Sunday, according to reports.

OAK HARBOR -- Five Ottawa County 'stars' and their dance partner instructors competed Saturday night in the Ottawa County Stars Dance for CASA.

PORT CLINTON -- A Fremont woman avoided a prison term for stealing from a Clay Township home today and will serve three years probation, a judge ruled.

A local man is scheduled to be in court Nov. 18 on a domestic violence charge, according to reports.

It takes hundreds of volunteers to sort and pack the thousands of food and other essential items donated to the Holiday Bureau every year to help people in Ottawa County.

Unemployment isn't just a big city issue. It's also a problem in rural communities.

Here is the latest information on school delays and closings for Ottawa County: Click here to load this Caspio Bridge DataPage.

Don't be alone this Thanksgiving....Don't miss out on a great holiday meal from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov.

Ottawa and Sandusky County rural landowners enrolled in the Current Agricultural Use Valuation program are invited to attend an educational workshop to learn why farmland property values increased this year.

A man was arrested and charged with drug possession and possession of drug paraphernalia Saturday after an early morning traffic stop, according to an Ottawa County Sheriff's Office report.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the population of Ottawa County was 40,823 in 2008.

HARRIS TOWNSHIP -- The former chief of the Harris-Elmore Fire Department EMS division is scheduled to be sentenced Dec.

PORTAGE TOWNSHIP -- Voters in Allen and Clay townships and Genoa and Clay Center showed their support for the Allen-Clay Joint Fire District by approving a 5-mill replacement levy Tuesday.

PORT CLINTON -- The wife of a man who was injured in an April bar fight said she is 'ecstatic' that one defendant received the maximum sentence.

The clean-up of unexploded ordnance along he shoreline of Lake Erie is Ottawa County is nearly complete.

PORTAGE TOWNSHIP -- A man involved in a fight Monday night was found unconscious, Ottawa County sheriff's deputies reported, and another has been charged with assault.