Bettsville News

BALLVILLE TOWNSHIP -- Troopers say a Bettsville woman is lucky that she wasn't seriously injured when her car landed in a ditch on the edge of the Sandusky River Wednesday.

Three employees of the Early Childhood programs at the WSOS Stricker Family Development Center have been awarded the Child Development Associate credential in recognition of outstanding work with young children.

Nicole Lennhoff, a 2002 graduate of Bettsville High School, has been named the new director of marketing at Bel-Aire Cleaners.

THEFT At 1:22 a.m. Friday, a caller in the 200 block of East County Road 109 in Sandusky Township reported someone entered his garage and stole two propane tanks.

Opportunity knocked for Rod Daniel in the form of a boys varsity head coaching job at Woodmore.

SANDUSKY -- Melissa Floria scored the only run of the game as Oak Harbor defeated Sandusky Perkins 1-0 during a 10-inning Sandusky Bay Conference softball game Monday.

Kelly Pickerel, Fremont resident and senior magazine journalism major and history minor at Kent State University, won the Frances B. Murphey Scholarship at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication Scholarship and Awards Ceremony.

Lakota Schools will once again participate in the open enrollment program. Students of the Elmwood, Eastwood, Gibsonburg, Fremont, Old Fort, Hopewell Loudon, Fostoria and Bettsville school districts who wish to attend Lakota School District tuition free can pick up an application form at any of the Lakota school buildings.

FREMONT -- A good crowd showed up to eat as much pizza as they could Sunday for the second annual Best of Sandusky County Pizza Challenge.

BURGOON -- A man was attacked with a baseball bat Wednesday night, the second such attack in as many weeks.

BETTSVILLE -- School board members recently approved reducing the hours of two teachers because of a declining enrollment in the classes they teach.

BETTSVILLE -- A Kansas man was injured Sunday evening when his 1998 Ford Ranger went off the road.

Service and Sunday school will start at 9:30 am. Yoga on Monday's at 6:30 pm. Cost is $5 with 10 percent going to Bettsville Community Food Pantry.

FREMONT - Ivan 'Ike' A. Koebel, 86, of Morrison St., Fremont, died Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at Memorial Hospital.

The Lakota Class of 1972 is planning four fundraising events. Random Band to play 10 p.m. to 2 .m. Saturday at Jeff's Bar in Bradner.

The Bettsville American Legion Auxiliary Post 733, Ohio 12, is having a fish fry from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the Legion.

The Lakota High School class of 1978 is having its 30th class reunion at 5:30 p.m. April 18 at Nature Trails Golf Course in Bettsville.

BETTSVILLE - The village council will have a special meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday in council chambers to discuss what needs to be done about the money that was misspent by a fiscal officer of the village recreation board.

COLUMBUS -- State auditors say a former Bettsville Recreation Board fiscal officer misspent more than $9,000 in 2006 and 2007.

More than $9,000 was improperly spent and was repaid to the Bettsville Recreation Board by its former fiscal officer, Ohio Auditor Mary Taylor said yesterday in releasing an audit of the board covering 2006 and 2007.