LISBON Columbiana County commissioners on Wednesday approved the annual lease agreement with the county Department of Jobs and Family Services for its space
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LISBON Columbiana County commissioners on Wednesday approved the annual lease agreement with the county Department of Jobs and Family Services for its space at the Government Services Building on Dickey Drive.
Between Feb. 1, 2021 and Jan. 31, 2022, the JFS is expected to pay $465,769 in equal monthly installments of $38,814. According to Rachel Ketterman, director of the JFS, the agreement is equal to $10.56 per square foot of space.
The building opened in 2011 and the amount of the lease with the JFS is determined after a company analyzes the space annually.
When the building was built, the county had three loans totaling $9.581 million. The JFS is not the only occupant of the building, which also houses the Board of Elections, the Veterans Services Commission, the OneStop and the Ohio State University Extension Offices. The OneStop pays $51,000 per year for its space and the VSC pays $45,000 annually. The other two reportedly do not pay for their sp
A Dublin Gardener Dreams of Summer
Winter is the time when Peggy Davis plans her warm-weather projects.
Teresa Woodard
Yes, frost and snow dust the grass seedheads in Peggy Davis’s garden. While living in Dublin with her husband, Bill, this winter she’s dreaming about her next warm weather projects. She is already planning a quartet of raised beds with a resting space in the middle and maybe even a fountain. Also she will be adding more plants such as the ‘Ice Cream’ tulips she ordered with her young granddaughter.
“I really don’t have an off-season,” says Peggy. “I’m constantly perusing the internet for ideas, plants, pathways and accents.”
It has been a tough, stressful few years for the farming, and our youth are not immune to the stressors affecting their families. Living through a pandemic has also changed the way our youth our being asked to live, adding many unknowns to their lives.
The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) and Ohio State University Extension want to reach out to our FFA members and their families to get the conversation started about how stress affects how we live, love, laugh, and play and offer available resources for mental wellness. Jami Dellifield, a Family and Consumer Sciences Extension Educator and an experienced mental health educator, and Katie Boyer, a communications specialist, designed a 40- to 80-minute program for youth and would welcome the opportunity to present it to FFA chapters (during the school day or for an evening event).
By Matt Reese
Though there were certainly exceptions, 2020 was much more favorable to Ohio’s corn and soybean growers than the previous year. This showed up in the 2020 Virtual Ohio Crop Tour conducted Aug. 11 though Aug. 13 and in Ohio’s final production numbers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in January. According to Cheryl Turner, state statistician, for the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Ohio Field Office, Ohio’s 2020 average corn yield was 171 bushels per acre, up 7 bushels from 2019. Growers harvested 3.3 million acres for grain, up 28% from 2019. Total production of corn for grain was 564 million bushels, up 34% from 2019.
Ohio’s average soybean yield for 2020 was 54 bushels per acre, up 5 bushels from 2019. Growers harvested 4.87 million acres, up 14% from 2019. Production, at 263 million bushels, was up 26%, Turner said.