9:25 PM Jul 24, 2010

Boy Scouts teaches survival skills

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.
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9:25 PM Jul 24, 2010

OUR VIEW: Agency review must lead to real changes

Now that a jury has awarded the estate of Connre Dixon the 11-year-old killed by her foster father, Paul Efaw $600,000 in a wrongful death lawsuit, residents have to ask themselves: Is it over, or is this the calm before yet another storm? The Huron County Department of Job and Family Services (HCDJFS) should be synonymous with positive words and phrases like "hope," "rebuilding" and "making a difference." Unfortunately, because of the very public disasters of the Gravelle and Efaw cases, the words most associated with the agency are "disgraced," "embattled" and "beleaguered."
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9:25 PM Jul 24, 2010

Business in brief

Main Street Norwalk program re-certified by Heritage Ohio The Main Street Norwalk Program has been re-certified by Heritage Ohio as both an accredited Ohio Main Street Community and a National Main Street Community. A representative from Heritage Ohio met with Main Street Norwalk's board of directors and Program Manager Dave Gulden March 19.
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9:25 PM Jul 24, 2010

Sandusky woman arrested on scam-related felony charges

MILAN - A Sandusky woman was arrested on about a dozen felony warrants Tuesday afternoon in connection with a Sandusky Wal-Mart scam about an hour after dispatchers entered the charges in their computer. Read the rest of this story in Today's Reflector...
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9:25 PM Jul 24, 2010

Plymouth police find heroin in diaper bag

PLYMOUTH - Police found heroin and drug paraphernalia in a Shelby woman's diaper bag during a Park Avenue traffic stop Friday. Read the rest of this story in Today's Reflector...
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9:25 PM Jul 24, 2010

Norwalk Municipal Court convictions

NORWALK - The following people were recently convicted of crimes in Norwalk Municipal Court, Judge John Ridge presiding: Christopher T. Nutter, 43, 2417 Jennings Road, New London; animal cruelty; conviction date: March 14; fine, $300; costs, $496.44; jail 90 days, 80 suspended; defendant shall have two years probation; defendant shall have two years no convictions; defendant shall not possess any companion animal or reside in a residence where a companion animal is present for two years; defendant shall pay fine and cost within 120 days.
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9:25 PM Jul 24, 2010

Crime/accidents

HIGHWAY PATROL No citation was issued Saturday after Ryan C. Townsend, 25, of Sylvania, pulled over his tractor-trailer while heading west on U.S. 224 to make room for an oncoming tractor with a wide load, causing damage to a yard on the right side of the road.
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9:25 PM Jul 24, 2010

Western Reserve boys capture win at league tri-meet

The Western Reserve boys and Ashland Crestview girls claimed wins during a Firelands Conference tri-track and field meet Tuesday at Whitney Field. The Roughriders boys scored 69 points to beat Crestview's 63 and St. Paul's 32.
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9:25 PM Jul 24, 2010

Proposal to revamp old funeral home dead

A proposal to change the zoning of the old funeral home on Benedict Avenue is dead, but it might be a blessing in disguise for everyone. Local business owners Rob and Lisa Wilkerson had requested the city change the zoning of the building from residential to business (R1 to B1), which would allow the couple to open a day spa in the location.
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9:25 PM Jul 24, 2010

County to fight decision

The Huron County Commissioners plan to fight the decision of a jury to award $600,000 to the estate of an 11-year-old girl killed by her foster father. Commissioners Mike Adelman and Gary Bauer as well as county prosecutor Russell Leffler and assistant county prosecutor Davia Kasper discussed the wrongful death lawsuit won by the estate of Connre Dixon. Dixon was fatally stabbed in 2003 by her Monroeville foster father Paul Efaw.
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9:25 PM Jul 24, 2010

Ex-principal to be paid until August

SHILOH - Former Shiloh Elementary School Principal Fayette Adams will remain on administrative leave, with full pay and benefits, until her employment with the Plymouth-Shiloh Local Schools ends in August, the school board announced Tuesday. The board voted unanimously to sign a severance agreement with Adams, who was placed on leave March 7 while the school board investigated allegations she engaged in sexual conduct with another adult on school property, Superintendent James Metcalf said.
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9:20 PM Jul 24, 2010

BLAST FROM THE PAST

MARCH 27, 1926 The top stories in the Norwalk Reflector-Herald on this date 81 years ago:
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9:20 PM Jul 24, 2010

Say no to the Plymouth-Shiloh repeal petition

Recently community members have been going door-to-door trying to get signatures to place a measure on the ballot to repeal the school district income tax and operating levies. Some of the individuals do not understand what they will accomplish if it is repealed. This will close the school and all the students will be sent to other districts for their education. Is this what the public wants? I, for one, do not believe that this is what the public wants, but negative publicity and misconceptions by the so-called C.A.R.E. organization have influenced numerous individuals to have a personal vendetta against the schools.
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9:20 PM Jul 24, 2010

CENTER LINE

"Don't leave home without it." No, not your credit card something much more important than that.
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9:20 PM Jul 24, 2010

OUR VIEW

Epic Technologies said it would be cutting 60 jobs from its Norwalk workforce. Many of those jobs are going to Mexico. When American jobs move south of the border, it is inevitable that some people are going to be angry. Perhaps they should be angry, but they shouldn't be angry with the company that's moving the jobs.
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9:20 PM Jul 24, 2010

Local man charged in theft of jewelry

A Norwalk man accused of stealing jewelry estimated to be valued at $60,000, some coins and Vicodin has been charged. Russell Korth, 49, of 16A Ontario St., was charged with receiving stolen property, a fourth-degree felony, in connection with an Oct. 27, 2005 incident.
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9:20 PM Jul 24, 2010

Juvenile court sees first heroin trafficking case

The drug case involving a 17-year-old Milan Avenue boy is the first heroin trafficking case Huron County Juvenile Court Administrator Chris Mushett remembers seeing. "To my knowledge this is the first heroin trafficking complaint we've received," said Mushett, the administrator for the past 25 years.
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9:20 PM Jul 24, 2010

Boy Scouts visit New London council meeting

NEW LONDON - Boy Scouts from Troop 217, along with their leader Terry Knudsen, attended Monday's council meeting to see local government in action. Knudsen said several of the boys are looking for Eagle Scout projects, so if the village has any that might fit the bill to let him know.
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9:20 PM Jul 24, 2010

Homicide charge filed

A Columbus driver has been charged in connection with causing the death of his passenger in a March 18 one-vehicle accident. Steven V. Maxey, 18, is accused of causing the death of Norwalk resident Michael W. Allgyre, 18, during a Greenwich Milan Townline Road crash. Norwalk Law Director Jim Conway said Maxey is accused of driving recklessly and state troopers' measurements indicate he was going more than 100 mph before crashing his 1993 Dodge Stealth.
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9:20 PM Jul 24, 2010

Crime/accidents

HIGHWAY PATROL Alysha M. Stroup, 27, of 3195 Peru Center Road, Monroeville, was charged with failure to control Friday after she went off the right side of Ohio 99 and hit a utility pole.
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9:20 PM Jul 24, 2010

Main Street School show serves as benefit for Tyson Gentry

Main Street School's third annual talent show will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday in the school's auditorium. As it did two years ago in donating proceeds from the show to a classmate with cancer, the school will raise funds this year to benefit area resident Tyson Gentry. Gentry, a third-year walk-on player for The Ohio State Buckeyes, suffered a serious neck injury in spring football practice at Ohio State in April 2006.
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