Fostoria News

By BRIAN BOHNERT for the courier FOSTORIA -- A grandmother foiled an attempted abduction of her 5-year-old grandson Wednesday morning on Fostoria's South Town Street, police reported.

It happened on South Town St. near the rail road crossing. A grandmother walking with her 4 year old grandson saw a white van with no windows stop.

By JIM MAURER STAFF WRITER FOSTORIA -- A public hearing on rehiring Fostoria junior/senior high school Principal Tom Grine was held by the school board Tuesday, but only one member of the public attended the session.

Docket From the public records of the Findlay Police Department and the Hancock County Sheriff's Office: Police Department A tractor-trailer traveling on Lynn Street pulled down an electrical wire Friday.

By ALEX ASPACHER for the courier FOSTORIA -- A transgender Fostoria High School student will be allowed to follow the female dress code for the graduation ceremony despite a conflict with school policies.

By DENISE GRANT Staff Writer Cash-strapped local governments may get some additional money this year from an unlikely place: the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation.

Hannah Hagman, 5, looks up at her brother Connor's new therapy dog, Murray, during the Assistance Dogs for Achieving Independence's spring graduation Thursday in Maumee.

Docket From the public records of the Findlay Police Department and the Hancock County Sheriff's Office: Police Department Medication was missing Monday from 806 Bright Road, 320.

By ALEX ASPACHER for the courier FOSTORIA -- A Great Britain firm has been working since 2008 to acquire property in Hancock and Seneca counties for placement of wind turbines, a company official told Fostoria City Council Tuesday.

By JIM MAURER STAFF WRITER FOSTORIA -- Fostoria School District voters approved an 8.15-mill continuing levy Tuesday which could provide some financial growth in the future.

Former Paulding, Ohio, resident, Donald Alan David Buchman, 53, peacefully went to be with his Father in Heaven on Friday, May 3, 2013.

Q: How many residents pay Findlay's income tax? Non-residents? How much? What was the vote on the quarter-percent city income tax in November? -- Fred Gohlke, Findlay.

Filled to near capacity, Stroh Center on BGSU's main campus boomed with cheers and applause as 475 graduates moved the tassels on their mortarboards from the right to the left as a symbol of graduation.

By ALEX ASPACHER FOR THE COURIER BLOOMDALE -- An Elmwood High School alumna delivered a message Friday to students with their heads in the clouds: Keep them there.

By JIM MAURER STAFF WRITER TIFFIN -- Four counties working as one can get more done than each working alone.

Docket From the public records of the Findlay Police Department and the Hancock County Sheriff's Office: Police Department Two females, 17 and 18, were nabbed after shoplifting tank tops Sunday from the Trenton Avenue Walmart.

UP: Findlay was swarming with volunteers Saturday, most of them lending a hand to complete projects for people as part of Backyard Mission Trip 2013.

"My friends saw my phone ringing," Hyde said. "They all started running up to the golf cart, yelling.

Docket From the public records of the Findlay Police Department and the Hancock County Sheriff's Office: Police Department A stove and a refrigerator, worth an estimated $754 total, were reported missing Thursday from 1331 S. Blanchard St.

A bill to consolidate the Tiffin and Fostoria municipal courts was introduced to state lawmakers this week.