The American Red Cross is urging area residents to take precautions following the severe winter weather impacting the local area this week. Millions of people from the Midwest to the Northeast are facing extremely cold temperatures, high winds and heavy snow over the next few days. The Red Cross is watching the storm and prepared to respond if necessary.
“People should check in on their neighbors and use caution as record lows hit our area,” said Todd
James, Executive Director of the American Red Cross of Hancock, Seneca and Wyandot Counties.
It was the changing of the guards at Monday’s Bluffton council meeting. After a two-day weather delay, council met for the first time in 2014.
Gone are experienced council members Richard McGarrity and Dave Steiner, whose terms expired. Replacing them are newcomers Roger Warren and Judy Augsburger. Warren is the first council member to be elected as a write-in. Augsburger is only the third woman to ever hold a council seat.
Citizens National Bank has announced the opening of a loan production office in Toledo, according to J. Michael Romey, CNB president/CEO.
Located at 3454 Oak Alley Ct, Suite 501, the office is headed by Nelson Shaffer, Senior Vice President/Market President. The office will provide commercial business development services to the area, including real estate loans, commercial lines of credit and access to deposits through the bank’s Online for Business and Merchant Capture services.
Frosty never looked so bright, however looking at the weather forecast, he doesn't have a bright future. There are lots of Frostys in town and this one showed up recently at 314 S. Main St.
Doreen Dae Metheney, 48 of Houston, Texas, and formerly of Bluffton died Jan. 4, 2014. She was born Aug. 28, 1965 in Bluffton to the late Gordon and Doris (Rowley) Metheney, Sr.
She graduated from Bluffton High School in 1983. She lived and worked in Findlay until the early 1990s and moved to Fort Walton Beach, Florida, where she lived and worked until her illness took her to St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston, Texas.
