04/10/17 – 11 P.M.

The City of Findlay will see some street and alley restrictions this week according to the Engineering Department. Olive Street will be reduced to one lane from Park Street to Brookside Drive between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. today and tomorrow. They will be doing soil boring.

The Main Street Alley Reconstruction Project continues this week as well. The first alleys west of Main Street will be closed to thru-traffic from the blocks of Hardin Street to Sandusky Street. This will last from now until 5 p.m. on Friday.

4/10/17 – 7:17 A.M.

Local gas prices are up again as we start the work week. OhioGasPrices.com reports the average price for a gallon of regular in Findlay is $2.36 today. That’s a 12 cent increase since last Monday. Prices are the highest they’ve been since early January.

Drivers in Ottawa report paying $2.39 per gallon today, up 10 cents from a week ago.

The statewide average is $2.37 per gallon. That’s up six cents over the last week.

4/10/17 – 7:06 A.M.

Bluffton officials are trying to find the descendants of people buried in an old cemetery. The Lima News reports anyone with information about relatives buried in the Shannon Cemetery should call Mayor Judy Augsburger at 419-358-2066.

The village is also taking donations to help with a restoration project at the cemetery.

MORE: Lima News

4/10/17 – 7:02 A.M.

A mild winter meant Findlay and Hancock County used less road salt around the area this year. The county used around 1,500 tons of salt this winter The yearly average is around 2,600 tons. Findlay used around 2,300 tons of salt, down from a yearly average of between 3,500 and 4,000.

The county’s salt barn still has 1,800 tons of salt in it. The city owns 800 tons of that. The barn can hold up to 5,500 tons of salt.

4/10/17 – 5:28 A.M.

A Fostoria man accused of causing a fatal crash last July appeared in court late last week. The Courier reports 22-year-old Jacob Woodruff pleaded not guilty to two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide, and operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.

On July 15 Woodruff was driving east on U.S. 224 in eastern Hancock County when he tried to pass another car. At the same time, a box truck driven by 45-year-old Charles Barby of Lima pulled out of a driveway and collided with Woodruff’s van. The collision killed 20-year-old Corrine Odoms of Fostoria. The impact of the crash ejected Odoms from Woodruff’s van.

Woodruff also faces a charge of operating a vehicle while under the influence of a listed controlled substance or listed metabolite of a controlled substance.

MORE: The Courier

4/10/17 – 5:02 A.M.

The Fire Relief Foundation has a new home. The Courier reports the agency that helps families displaced from their homes by fire found itself looking for a home last week. The agency had stayed rent-free in a building on Fostoria Avenue since 2014. However the building’s owner sold the facility, and the new owners wouldn’t honor the old lease agreement.

Foundation CEO Emily Stevers says Robin Gardner and her sons helped find a new location in a matter of days. As a result, the Fire Relief Foundation is set up in a set of buildings on State Route 12.

Stevers says while the new location is rent free, they have to pay for utilities and exterior maintenance. Stevers tells the newspaper, “We are 100 percent volunteer-run, so everything goes right to the families. And now we’re going to have expenses.” She added, “we are literally in dire straits.”

The agency is accepting donations to help offset the costs. You can mail checks to the Fire Relief Foundation at 1700 Fostoria Avenue, Suite 1000, Findlay Ohio 45840. The foundation will mail you a receipt back.

MORE: The Courier