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Minster to apply for grant for playground equipment
By Sandy Rose Schwieterman - For the Sidney Daily News
MINSTER – Minster Council dealt with a busy schedule at its meeting May 18 that included approving motions ranging from park grant applications to rebuilding another section of 7th Street. Also, a village teen received a scholarship.
Council gave the go-ahead for the village to apply for an $86,097 Ohio Department of Natural Resources Nature Works Grant to improve the Park Street Park playground equipment. It was decided that the new equipment would be called Stallostown Playground. Village Administrator Don Harrod said they plan to have the grant application submitted by the June 1 deadline and would hear later this summer if they had been awarded the funding.
Pool repair work continues
By Sandy Rose Schwieterman - For the Sidney Daily News
NEW BREMEN – The New Bremen Council heard at its Monday, May 10, meeting that repair work on the pool was progressing
Village Administrator Brent Richter told council they had received approval from the State’s Health Department concerning the newly installed plumbing. Next week the contractor is expected to do backfill and concrete work. Arrangements are being made to have a company come and repair the liner in a couple of weeks.
Council agreed with Richter’s proposal to combine the building of a new bike path with the 2021 village street resurfacing project. It is planned to use the grindings from the street resurfacing to use as a base for the new bike path. The new bike path would extend from near the YMCA east of town and end on Walnut Street west of town and eventually connect to the Miami Erie Canal path. The streets to be resurfaced include North Main (From Monroe), North Walnut (From