Ottawa News

Since 1983, the Ottawa County Board of Health has presented Awards of Merit to those licensed operations in Ottawa County that have maintained a high degree of sanitation and safety.

The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary will be teaching safe boating classes with qualified instructors 7 to 10 p.m. Nov.

Sunday, Nov. 1 12:07 a.m. Jonathan Guiterrez, 19, and Saul Maldondo, 21, both of Defiance, Ohio, were cited for obstructing official business.

According to the Marysville Division of Police, the following individuals were indicted in the local drug investigation: a Robert L. Arm, 24, 18897 Broad St.

MONTREAL and OTTAWA - O ttawa is moving to close the door on early parole for white-collar criminals and other non-violent offenders, a step that would cost taxpayers $60-million a year in added incarceration costs.

Kelly Ward of the Putnam County District Library told Fort Jennings Village Council Tuesday she hopes the district's new main location in Ottawa will be completed by Christmas 2010.

Oak Harbor - On November 14, Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, Oak Harbor, Ohio, will provide the setting for a conference like no other, as student members of a statewide nature organization, The Ohio Young Birders Club , host their annual conference from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 pm.

Lucille D. Gasser, 86, died at 7:35 a.m. Oct. 21, 2009, at The Meadows of Kalida in Kalida.

Georgia D. "Nikki" Jones, 73, died at 12:15 p.m. Oct. 15, 2009, at Oak Grove Healthcare Center, Deshler.

Donald E. Griffith, 86, died at 3 p.m. Oct. 5, 2009, at The Meadows of Kalida in Kalida.

The Port Clinton Pointe housing development was chosen as Project of the Year 2009 by the Ohio Community Development Corp., at its annual conference in Canton.

CATAWBA ISLAND -- The Mental Health and Recovery Board of Erie and Ottawa Counties will have the 15th annual awards for excellence at 6 p.m. Oct.

ELMORE -- Local residents, master gardeners and representatives from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency gathered Sept.

By JOY BROWN STAFF WRITER The Hancock County Farm Bureau wants a private flood control planning group to divulge its finances, but group members are not certain they're legally obligated to do so.

The last time we met, you were introduced to the fact that Putnam County is celebrating the 175th Anniversary of its organization.

The wife of the Putnam County Sheriff pleaded guilty Wednesday to a felony theft charge.

Bill Curry Ottawa - O ntario native leaders are warning they will turn their reserves into tax-free shopping zones unless Queen's Park and Ottawa back down from a harmonized sales tax that would strip tax exemptions from the province's status Indians.

The wife of a northwest Ohio sheriff pleaded guilty in court Wednesday to a felony theft charge.

Kenn Kaufman, an internationally renowned birding authority, naturalist, and author, knows diversity when he sees it in the bird world, and that in part is why he is troubled with a lack of diversity in the birding world.

Patricia H. Burnette, 79, of Ottawa, Ohio, died Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009. On June 27, 1953, she married Frank O. Burnette Sr.