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Green Springs Firefighters to hold Sunday breakfast
GREEN SPRINGS - The Green Springs Volunteer Fire Department will hold its monthly breakfast 7 a.m.-noon Sunday Breakfast will be drive-thru only. Patrons should enter the north entrance of the fire station at 120 Catherine St. and pull around to the back of the building to place and pick up orders. Each meal is $7 and includes two pancakes and two French toasts, sausage and scrambled eggs. No special orders will be taken.
Humane society to hold chicken dinner
PORT CLINTON - The Que Barbeque and Brew, 3975 E. Harbor Road, is hosting a drive-thru chicken dinner to benefit the Humane Society of Ottawa County from 4-7 p.m. March 9. Dinner is $10 and includes a chicken leg quarter, baked beans, baked potato salad and cornbread.
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The Beacon
The Emergency Home Energy Assistance Program (EHEAP), through Great Lakes Community Action Partnership (GLCAP), can benefit seniors on a fixed income who need help with utility payments.
EHEAP assists households that are facing a heating utility shut-off, have a utility disconnect, or utilize wood, kerosene, propane, corn pellets or other heating supplies and have less than 20% of their bulk fuel supply.
The service is available for those who are at or below 175% of federal poverty guidelines ($22,330/annual income for a one-person household; $30,170/annual income for a two-person household) and live in Ottawa, Sandusky, Seneca, and Wood counties.
In addition to EHEAP, households may also apply for the regular, non-emergency Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) benefit that provides a one-time heating utility payment to reduce household energy costs. New to this season and in response to the pandemic, all qualifying households will also receive an automatic second HEA
Lakemore departments hit hard by COVID-19
Carolynn Mostyn
Suburbanite correspondent
LAKEMORE Council members spoke about how hard COVID-19 has hit the village s fire and police departments.
During the Dec. 21 meeting, Council President Laura Cochran said the safety forces have taken a hard hit in the last weeks as the Fire Department has had 25 people that have had the virus or been quarantined. One of the Police Department’s officers recently got out of the hospital and his wife went into the hospital the day of the meeting.
Officers are going into houses not knowing if people have COVID or not. Village Administrator Tracy Fast said this is the reason they are keeping the Municipal Building closed. She said there are envelopes to put payments in.
Dec 16, 2020
Commissioners in Harrison County are taking a good first step toward correcting a problem the county has been facing for some time now.
At issue is the county’s jail. It’s currently one of the oldest in Ohio and can hold just eight prisoners.
That has forced officials to have to turn to neighboring counties to house prisoners. It’s an expensive proposition, one that cost Harrison County more than $170,000 last year and that’s in addition to the time that could be spent on patrol that is lost when deputies have to transport prisoners to the surrounding areas.