Tiffin News

Marci will be playing womens lacrosse for the Dragons. She plans to major in sports administration.

Three people escaped serious injury when a tractor-trailer carrying nitric acid collided with a pickup truck at the intersection of Ohio 103 and Township 30, near Sycamore, at 4:30 p.m. Friday.

Sister Ann Louise Willman, a resident at the St. Bernardine Home, will celebrate her 102nd birthday Dec. 17. She is formerly known as Sister Mary Josepha Willman.

David Zak, chief of the Business Services Division at the Ohio Development Services agency, has been named president and chief executive officer of Seneca Industrial and Economic Development Corp. Zak replaces Rich Focht, who is retiring at year-end after 24 years in the post.

By JIM MAURER STAFF WRITER TIFFIN -- The Seneca County commissioners will consider a resolution next week to increase the county lodging tax by 1 percent.

Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., former lead singers of the internationally renowned 5th Dimension and a Grammy winning duo, will bring "Holiday Celebration" to The Ritz Theatre, 30 S. Washington St., Tiffin at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 14. The couple has enjoyed tremendous success as recording artists, performers, actors and authors.

Thanksgiving didn't feature the stay-at-home holiday meal the Gibsons had planned, but they and others displaced from their homes after a railroad chemical spill made the best of the holiday.

City officials say residents in a limited area are being allowed back into their homes now.

Jennifer Barnett looked like someone who had gotten only an hour's sleep. Barnett and about 80 other people spent the night at Willard High School after a chemical spill.

Hundreds of people, maybe even 1,000 or more, were evacuated from their homes in the middle of the night after a CSX rail car was found to be leaking a highly flammable petroleum product.

Adam Oulton, a senior from Aurora, is a member of Heidelberg University's chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, the national service fraternity.

By JIM MAURER STAFF WRITER TIFFIN -- The final hearing on the Wolf Creek maintenance project will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Public Safety Building at Seneca County Fairgrounds, Tiffin.

Docket From the public records of the Findlay Police Department and the Hancock County Sheriff's Office: Police Department A hit-skip traffic mishap occurred Saturday in the 1300 block of Tiffin Avenue.

Hancock County Extension offers two volunteer educational programs, Master Gardeners and Ohio Certified Volunteer Naturalists.

They were the "deciders," after all, who appointed Tiffin attorney Dean Henry to be the criminal prosecutor in an "investigation" into the cause and circumstances that led to the death of 19-year-old Jacob Limberios on March 2, 2012.

By RYAN DUNN staff writer A Findlay man convicted six times of drunken driving has been charged with the crime again.

By RYAN DUNN staff writer UPPER SANDUSKY -- Bond was set at $2 million Tuesday for a rural Tiffin man charged with killing his fiancee and a Carey man inside a rural sportsman's club.

Thelma B. Lower, 91, formerly of Pinewood Drive, New Waterford, passed away at 10:06 a.m. Monday, Nov. 11 on Union Ave., NE, near Homeworth.

Economic development is no easy task, and city officials have been working since the mid-1980s to attract new businesses and lay the foundation for future growth in downtown Fremont.

Docket From the public records of the Findlay Police Department and the Hancock County Sheriff's Office: Police Department A woman wanted under a warrant was also charged Friday with possessing marijuana in the 1800 block of North Blanchard Street.