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Wood County Sheriff's Office suspects medical issue in Jerry City fatal crash
May 1, 2024, News Release from the Wood County Sheriff's Office: On May 1, 2024, at 8:27 p.m., the Wood County Sheriff's Office was notified of a single-vehicle crash at Mears Rd. and Main St. in the Village of Jerry City, which resulted in a single fatality. The crash involved a white 2016 Chevrolet pickup operated by 61-year-old John Wansitler of Jerry City.
Arkansas issues first dispensary license revocation since launching the medical marijuana industry
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — The Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control Division (ABC) has issued the state's first revocation of a dispensary license since the medical marijuana industry launched in 2019. The ABC revoked the dispensary license for Green Springs Medical Marijuana Dispensary in Hot Springs due to "ongoing violations, most...
Farmers delayed by wet fields after historic April rain
WOOD COUNTY, Ohio — Most area farmers would like to be in their fields planting corn by early May, but record rainfall in April has delayed it. As of this week, just 6% of Ohio’s corn crops are planted. But there is still some wiggle room. Last year,...
Hoover is now Gibsonburg's strikeout king
Every strikeout for the rest of Nolan Hoover's high school career builds on Gibsonburg's program record. Hoover is a junior. He struck out nine Wednesday in a 5-1 setback to New Riegel in the Sandusky Bay Conference River Division. He surpassed 1990 graduate Scott Widmer (293) and finished with 295 career strikeouts. Widmer was...
History Spotlight: A steam engine returns to Fremont
This view of an approaching steam engine that revisited Fremont looks south on Front Street from the Trestle Bridge in the 1980s. Justice Street is seen at the upper left, and the houses at the right look the same as they appeared in a similar photo taken during the 1913 flood. Notice people in front of their houses getting a nostalgic view of the once-popular passenger trains.
Letters to the Editor: World War II lessons seem forgotten
It’s 2024 in America and I am compelled to state what should be obvious to every American. Killing Jews is wrong. I, like so many others, have thought that this fact went without saying after World War II, but clearly it does not. Now that has been made clear to me, here are a few more things I once thought went without saying: Cooking babies in ovens is wrong.
Political group pays to drop gas prices for 2 hours
GREEN SPRINGS - Americans for Prosperity-Ohio will be in Green Springs rolling gas prices back to the national average the day Joe Biden took office on Jan. 20, 2021, as part of its bus tour on the economy. Gas prices will be $2.38 a gallon at the Green Springs Marathon,...
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