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Protestors rally in the parking lot of the Bath Township building. Dozens of people gathered at the Bath Township Trustee building in Fairborn Wednesday night to protest the controversial bio-waste operation on Herr Road owned by Central Ohio-based Renergy Inc. The protestors said they know their opposition will be a marathon, not a sprint. Last week, Greene County Court of Common Pleas Judge Michael Buckwalter ruled that the Bath Township biodigester is a public utility, because it creates a...

Prison sentence vacated on appeal Published by news@presspubli... on Fri, 05/07/2021 - 4:00pm Family and friends of Amber Eichner gather for a vigil service at Veterans Park, Genoa. (Press photo by Ken Grosjean) A decision by the Wood County Common Pleas Court that imposed a prison sentence for a man found guilty of attempted pandering of sexually-oriented material has been reversed. The Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals has ruled the lower court erre...

Marion Judge Jason Warner seeks release from prison during appeal Twelve days after being sentenced to two years in prison, Marion Judge Jason Warner has asked to be released pending an appeal of his conviction. According to online court records, Warner filed a motion on April 26 signaling to the court he will appeal the sentencing from visiting Judge Patricia Cosgrove, former Summit County Common Pleas Judge who was appointed for this trial after retiring in 2011. Previously on April 14...

Opinion: Yes to affordable housing, no to Issue 3 Scott Crowley Across Ohio, the recorder’s offices in all 88 counties write a check to the Ohio Housing Trust Fund to help fund statewide affordable housing. The Hamilton County Recorder’s Office has contributed nearly $66 million dollars to this fund, and we are about to transfer another $1 million for the first quarter of 2021. It is a statutory obligation we fulfill under the Ohio Revised Code. This is a significant amount of money. In fac...

jpatterson@mariettatimes.com Photo by Janelle Patterson Washington County Common Pleas Judge John Halliday speaks to Irwin Alexander Gray via teleconference in the Washington County Courthouse on Wednesday during a sentencing hearing. One-third of a set of defendants in a methamphetamine and fentanyl trafficking case from last summer is headed to more than a decade of prison service. “He’s doing an additional two years in Pennsylvania after he gets out for violating terms of his last prison...

CANTON — Stark County Recorder Jamie Walters accused his predecessor Rick Campbell of failing to make a required third-quarter $500,000 payment to the states housing trust fund by the required deadline, costing the county about $5,000. Walters remarks came Tuesday during an update to the county commissioners about his first few months since he was sworn in on Jan. 4. Commissioner Janet Weir Creighton, a Republican, asked whether the missed payment was due to the election in November, chang...

jpatterson@mariettatimes.com Belpre City School Superintendent Jeff Greenley speaks during a Board of Education meeting on Monday evening. (Photo by Tyler Bennett) Harmar Elementary School sits in the shadow of 115 Gilman Ave., in Marietta, which was declared a blight and public nuisance in Washington County Common Pleas Court on Monday. (Photo by Janelle Patterson) Fourth Ward Councilman Geoff Schenkel testifies to the fear residents within his ward live under due to the “negl...

Scioto County man sentenced to prison on sexual battery charge By Kyle Shaner - kshaner@sidneydailynews.com SIDNEY – A Scioto County man was sentenced to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to sexual battery in Shelby County Common Pleas Court. Judge James F. Stevenson sentenced Jesse Andrew Hudson, 50, of Otway, to five years in prison on an amended charge of sexual battery, a third degree felony. He was granted credit for 185 days served in jail. Hudson previously was charged with ...

Last Updated Apr 12, 2021 at 10:09 am ADT Cleveland Plain Dealer. April 11, 2021. Editorial: Shame on Ohio General Assembly members who prevaricate when asked to lead by example and get vaccinated As a key Greater Clevelander lawmaker recently said, General Assembly members should undergo vaccination against COVID-19 virus to encourage their constituents – Ohio’s 11.7 million residents – to do the same. (As of Thursday, about 3.9 million people had obtained at least one dose of the COVID-...

In a motion filed on Monday, Margaret Tomaro, special prosecutor from the Ohio Attorney Generals Office who is leading this case, said placing the two on community control would "demean the seriousness of this offense." Jason and Julia were both found guilty by visiting Judge Patricia Cosgrove for two felony crimes; one third-degree felony for complicity to tampering with evidence, and one fourth-degree felony for complicity to failure to stop after an accident. Tomaro, in the recommendation, ...