Regional news

2,400 residents will be selected randomly

Over the next two months, 2,400 Allen County residents will be randomly selected to participate in a community health assessment survey, according to Monica Harnish, director of health planning services of the Allen County Public Department.

 The committee is working closely with the Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio and researchers at the University of Toledo to conduct the survey.

Residents of Allen County who are randomly selected are urged to complete and return the survey.

Beaver Excavating Co., Canton, is the apparent low bidder for a project, which will reconstruct and widen Interstate 75 through Findlay and Hancock County beginning this spring.

The apparent successful bid was $113.2 million. The contract will be officially awarded in approximately two weeks once a review of all bidding documents is complete.

The project will take place from just south of Harrison Street/County Road 144, which is just south of the Ohio 15/U.S. Route 68 interchange, to the County Road 99 interchange in Findlay.

State testing dates listed

Several spring testing dates are approaching Bluffton middle school students. That list and several other bits of news are part of the current issue of Pirate Press, the middle school newsletter.

In addition, several calendar items are in the newsletter. A complete copy of the newsletter is attached at the bottom of this story.

It's part of the Bluffton school winter newsletter attached

Driving Education Excellence: Securing the Future for All Ohio Students.

That’s the title of a program being implemented this winter by the Ohio Department of Education.

Greg Denecker, Bluffton school superintendent, provided details in the winter school newsletter sent to district residents last week.

His report is in the “news from the superintendent” section, attached at the bottom of this story.

SHANNON Service Club and Bluffton Senior Center

S.H.A.N.N.O.N. Service Club and the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center launch the 2017 Bluffton garage sale season at the end of February. There's even a chicken barbecue tossed in.

Here are the details:

Due to construction the Riley Street bridge between Spring and Garmatter streets will be closed from 1 to 6 p.m. today, (Thursday, Feb. 9).

 

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