Van Buren News

Students in the Baldwinsville Central School District have been busy this holiday season performing community service projects, such as food drives and gift collections to support local organizations.

By JOY BROWN STAFF WRITER The Mains extended family will be celebrating a bittersweet Christmas, bitter because it may be the last holiday hurrah on their beloved riverfront property, but sweetened with a decorated multi-tree tribute.

Kathleen Horning has been selected as interim principal of Van Buren Elementary School until a permanent principal is selected, the Thompson School District reported this morning.

Kudos to the Dec. 15 letter writer who rightly pointed out that we should raise taxes to pay for the war on terror.

MARY MULLENIX An open house to honor the 90th birthday of Mary Mulleniz will be from noon to 2 p.m. Dec.

The weekend apprehension of a Detroit motorist on Interstate 75 with a kilo of heroin really shouldn't surprise anyone.Since the federal highway was built more than a half-century ago, drugs have flowed north and south through Findlay regularly.

Will northwestern Ohio construction workers have a hand in the building of Findlay's three new schools?That may have been the most important question asked Monday at a meeting of the Findlay school board, which was presented a rough timeline for construction of the two middle schools and vocational education building.

Home Depot is facing criticism from unions that say it should give area companies more work in the construction of its warehouse near Van Buren.

By JORDAN CRAVENS staff writer Four fewer deputies will be patrolling Hancock County's roads and three fewer corrections officers will guard the county jail, starting Sunday.

The principal at Van Buren Elementary School has been selected to lead the opening of Ponderosa Elementary School when it opens next fall.

Ken Dickson has been living with Benjamin Franklin Stickney for a long time. The retired Bowsher High School math teacher said Stickney has occupied a large part of his intellectual life for almost 40 years.

This fall, students at Elden and Van Buren elementary schools collaborated with students across the country in a unique service project.

By JORDAN CRAVENS staff writer Village and law enforcement officials say they are hopeful the Hancock County Sheriff's Office can restore patrol hours in Van Buren and Arlington next year.

With layoffs announced less than two weeks after the passage of city and county tax issues, some people may be feeling hoodwinked.They shouldn't. Officials never promised voter approval of the city's 0.25 percent income tax or the county's 0.50 percent sales tax would solve all the financial problems facing city and county government.

By JORDAN CRAVENS staff writer Seven employees at the Hancock County Sheriff's Office will be laid off Dec.

Hancock County Sheriff's deputies were kept busy with a rash of accidents Tuesday, injuring at least six people.

Hancock County commissioners enjoyed a victory Tuesday night when a sales tax, the third proposed in the past four years, not only passed, but by a 60 percent margin.

GLANDORF a ' The Kalida Lady Wildcats sat in wait during the opening Division II sectional soccer contest at Titan Field in Glandorf on Monday evening.

Ohio Supreme Court Justice Maureen O'Connor said Thursday that State Issue 2 is an "inappropriate use" of a constitutional amendment.

An accident closed I-75 northbound in Hancock County near milepost 163. That's just south of Van Buren.