NORWALK - The following people recently were convicted of drunken driving in Norwalk Municipal Court: Regina A. Sobieski, 35, 901 U.S. 250, New London. Violation date: Dec. 17, 2006. Conviction date: March 13, 2007. Sentence: $600 fine, $55 costs, six-month license suspension and three days in jail; credited with $250 and three days in jail time upon completion of alcohol intervention program (AIP); defendant shall have limited driving only on proof of insurance and occupation from March 13 to June 17.

While no Cleveland sports team has won any major titles in four decades, it is a great time to be a fan of Northeast Ohio's adopted college team The Ohio State University. The last decade has been a treat for Buckeye fans. This year marks the second Final Four appearance for the basketball team since 1999 (setting aside the ridiculous NCAA penalty means that everyone must now pretend OSU did not make the Final Four that year).

A planned power outage scheduled for March 21 was delayed for a second time due to weather conditions. The rescheduled date for this planned outage is tentatively for Wednesday, May 16. Read the rest of this story in Today's Reflector...

A 93-year-old Norwalk woman has been released from a Toledo hospital after sustaining serious injuries in one-vehicle crash Sunday night. Read the rest of this story in Today's Reflector...

HIGHWAY PATROL Buffy L. Detterman, 31, of 4133 Ohio 162, New London, hit a deer Monday on Ohio 162.

King Rowland has been named recipient of the 2007 Community Service Award by the 3,748 Masons in Crawford, Erie, Huron, Seneca and Wyandot counties of the 16th Masonic District. Read the rest of this story in Today's Reflector...

Laura Kniffin, a senior at Norwalk High School, has earned her Gold Award through Girl Scouts of Erie Shores. Her Gold Award Project ("W.I.T.H. Word In Their Hands") was to collect donated Bibles containing personal letters of encouragement to send to Hurricane Katrina survivors in Metairie, La. Laura collected 667 Bibles from area churches and 156 letters from school classes, church groups, and Brownie troops. These were taken to Louisiana in March by a mission team from the Chapel, in Sandusky, and distributed to families in devastated areas.

Port Clinton topped Norwalk 4-1 Wednesday in the Truckers' 2007 tennis opener. The Truckers host Ashland today.

˙It's providential that the Efaw trial occurred soon after the Gravelle trial. The same Huron County Children Services workers were involved in both cases. There needs to be changes at the county level, instead of only putting people in prison who did wrong because of the advice and/or ineptitude of children services employees. Let's put some of those workers in prison too. It seems that the overreaction of the county to the Gravelle case was a smoke screen to cover up their under reaction in the Efaw case. Did children services think that the people of Huron County would exonerate them because they did to the Gravelles what they should have done in the Efaw case? Kudos to the people on the jury for seeing that justice was done. It's too bad that the Gravelles didn't have them on their jury!

I have been in Boy Scouts for two years now, going on three years. I enjoy scouts. We do a lot of planning at the meetings. That might sound boring, but it's worth it in the end. The camp outs are the best parts of scouts; no parents, brothers, sisters and none of the city there with you. Just the wilderness and the great wild life of raccoons and mosquitoes. When we started the troop there were six of us. Now there are about 12 of us - over the course of three years the troop size has doubled - that is a good thing. So if most people think that Scouts is for wimps, it is just the opposite. Scouts teaches young men how to survive in the dwindling wilderness. And that's what I think of Scouts.