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Area fire damaged church up for sale
By STEVE COLON Expositor Editor SWANTON – The Holy Place has been without a home since lightening struck its downtown Swanton building last summer causing extensive fire damage. The group has decided not to refurbish the structure and is looking for a buyer of the building on the corner of ...
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Pressure mounts to reach contract decision
While pressure mounts to reach a settlement between the Swanton School Board and the Swanton Education Association, a news release issued last week by the SEA muddied the water. The SEA cited an inaccurate entry placed in the Ohio School Board Association's salary database of salaries of school dis ...
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Unemployment surges
Fulton County is facing some of the highest unemployement rates since the double-digit figures of the early 1990s. Fulton County's rate was 9.1 percent in July, up from 7.6 percent last month and 7.4 percent last July. The county is ranked 14th highest out the state's 88 counties. Lucas County ...
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District, teachers reach contract
By STEVE COLON Expositor Editor The Wauseon Exempted Village School District has reached an agreement with its teachers. The two-year agreement was reached and ratified by the board at its meeting last week. Under the newly penned agreement, all classified and administrative employees will re ...
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School board declines grant dollars due to concerns related to overhead
By DREW STAMBAUGH Expositor Staff Writer The Swanton School Board voted unanimously last week to not accept a grant from the United States Department of Education. The alcohol reduction grant would have distributed about $170,000 per year for three years. A prepared statement by the board sai ...
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Delta bond issue passes by six votes
By STEVE COLON Expositor Editor DELTA - The third time did prove to be the charm for Pike-Delta-York Local Schools. On Saturday, the Board of Elections counted 15 provisional ballots and certified the early August election counts. As a result, the PDY bond issue gained six votes for the le ...
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Parent surveys say county underage drinking a problem
By STEVE COLON Expositor Editor Results of a recent parent survey indicate that underage drinking is an important concern to most Fulton County parents. The survey was part of the Fulton County Family and Children First Council's Parents Who Host; Lose the Most campaign during prom and graduat ...
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Two-car crash claims one
YORK TWP. - A two-vehicle crash on Aug. 13 claimed the life of a Defiance resident and injured a Delta woman. According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the accident occurred at around 8:36 a.m. at the intersection of Co. Rd. H and Co. Rd. 10. A 1997 Pontiac Bonneville driven by Karen S. Essex, ...
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Swanton supervisor on leave, facing allegations of sexual misconduct
SWANTON - A village supervisor is currently in jail on charges stemming from alleged contact with two girls under the age of 13. Patrick Gerity, 41, of Delta, has been charged with five counts of gross sexual imposition and is being held at the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio in lieu of $1 m ...
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Renaissance Square
By STEVE COLON Expositor Editor Renaissance means quite literally 'rebirth.' Many are pinning their hopes on the continued rebirth of downtown Wauseon on plans to develop the corner which was claimed by an April 2007 fire. Downtown Wauseon Development Inc., a partnership between Charles Bryan ...
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Wauseon connected to 2008 Beijing games
By NORRIS LEDYARD Expositor Staff Writer As many are glued to their televisions or computer monitors to get the latest news on the American athletes competing in the 2008 Olympics in China, Wauseon viewers may not recognize the name, but one athlete has ties to northwest Ohio. Matthew Rogelst ...
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Archbold bowling center gets high-tech facelift
By STEVE COLON Expositor Editor ARCHBOLD - NuArch Lanes bowling center is getting a facelift which will make it one of the most modern, high-tech bowling centers in a 50-mile radius. Work on the renovation is nearing completion and owner Vernon Nemire is pleased with the progress and the pote ...
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