Bellville News

Area news briefs: Bellville event to help restore bandstand July 10, 2009 Willard School board plans closed session The Willard City Schools Board of Education will meet in executive session at 8 a.m. Saturday in the board office at the Willard Middle School to consider an employment matter.

U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown said nearly $868,000 in federal loans and grants for public facilities projects has been awarded to eight Ohio communities by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Also, don't forget those old pictures to share with the family as we remember the years past.

The following people were sentenced recently in Richland County Common Pleas Court: Robert T. Porter IV, 34, New Middletown, six years in prison and forfeiture of 1991 Nissan pickup for aggravated robbery and theft.

Crawford County Soil and Water Conservation District hosted its first countywide day conservation camp Tuesday at Aumiller Park in Bucyrus.

Two people were served drug-related summonses during a raid at a home at 4805 Bott Road in Bellville Tuesday by the Metrich Enforcement Unit.

Officers seized numerous marijuana plants, marijuana, drug paraphernalia, equipment used for a distillery, and several jars of suspected moonshine.

MANSFIELD: Dorothy Elizabeth Ellis, 84, of Mansfield, died Wednesday, June 24, 2009, at MedCen- tral Mansfield.

MANSFIELD: Nancy F. Puhl, 68, of Mansfield passed away Monday, June 22, 2009 at her residence.

MANSFIELD - At their regular meeting Tuesday, Richland County commissioners approved $250,000 worth of Community Development Block Grant proposals for projects including a new roof for a Bellville community center, $50,000 for Richland County Transit and the continuation of an emergency home repair program.

Richland County's 211-thousand-dollars worth of Community Development Block Grant projects have been approved by the Commissioners.

GALION -- Forget diamonds. Strawberries are a girl's best friend. Ask Cassidy Hoffner.

MANSFIELD -- An ex-brother-in-law of a Bellville man who died in a car accident Tuesday night said Wednesday the man, Ivan K. Swanger, would be remembered fondly.

An autopsy has been ordered in the crash death of a Bellville man who died late Tuesday in Jefferson Township after his car veered off the road.

MANSFIELD - Speed and alcohol are believed to be contributing factors in a single-car crash that claimed the life of a Bellville man Tuesday in Jefferson Township.

The Village of Bellville wants to make some rather major repairs to the bandstand that is the village's centerpiece.

A family lost its home and belongings to a fire overnight when the home at 10331 Gregg Road, north of Fredericktown, was completely destroyed by fire.

BELLVILLE: Jerry W. Miller, 82, of Bellville, passed away Sunday, June 7, 2009, at his home after a battle with lung cancer and pneumonia.

Brittany Fernandez drove in the winning run and pitched a six-hitter as Hamilton Ross won its first Division II Ohio state softball title with a 4-2 win Saturday over Bellville Clear Fork in Firestone Park.

A new flag honoring Navy Seaman First Class John S. Adamescu was raised recently in front of the Richland County Administration Building.