Ottawa County News

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.

WOODVILLE -- Woodmore Local Schools officials will have to continue operating their aged elementary and middle schools after voters rejected a bond issue Tuesday, the superintendent said.

A local teen and a juvenile reportedly spray-painted two buildings and two vehicles over the weekend.

The Ottawa County Health Department Clinic schedule for this week. Today: Immunization Clinic, 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; WIC Clinic, 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday: WIC Clinic, 12:45 to 4:30 p.m.; Immunization Clinic -- Oak Harbor, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday: Family Planning Clinic, 12:45 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday: Well Child, STD and Family ...

Crosser Funeral Home, which has been in the Village of Elmore since 1975, will celebrate the grand opening of their new location at 19550 West Ohio 51, from 1 to 4 p.m. Nov.

FREMONT -- With a total of $8 billion in federal stimulus funds coming to Ohio over the next three years, there's a lot of money to be spent.

PORT CLINTON -- A Port Clinton man was indicted on one count of gross sexual imposition after being accused of sexual contact with a minor, Ottawa County Prosecutor Mark Mulligan said.

Toledo police are looking for the driver of a minivan that slammed into another car overnight, then left the scene.

Saturday Nathan D. Reaper, 33, 321 Walnut St., Oak Harbor, arrested by Oak Harbor police, charged with driving under suspension and drug paraphernalia, $5,050 bond.

The Port Clinton City School District has a one-time chance to get at least $3.2 million in federal stimulus money for a new middle school, officials said.

The Ottawa County Democratic Party announced the endorsement of three Port Clinton city candidates; Larry Hartlaub, candidate for city auditor, Valerie Culver, candidate for First Ward City Council, and James Mozina, candidate for Second Ward City Council.

WOODVILLE -- Woodmore Local Schools are eligible to use $6.4 million in state funding to build a new school for kindergarten through eighth grades.

The Ottawa County Health Department has received a limited supply of H1N1 Flu Mist.

PORT CLINTON - A Marblehead man who was arrested in August and charged with three counts of drug trafficking, one count of possession of drugs, one count of possession of drug abuse instruments and 13 counts of child endangering pleaded guilty to four of the charges Thursday in Ottawa County Common Pleas Court, according to a spokesman for the ...

PORT CLINTON -- Martha Arndt had heard tales of deer seemingly materializing out of thin air into the path of oncoming cars, but she had always figured a vigilant eye would counter the element of surprise.

This map shows collisions between vehicles and deer in selected Ohio counties in 2008.

Ottawa County Sheriff's Office reports Sheriff's Office n 10:44 a.m. - Accident at Ohio 105 and Ohio 51, Harris Township.