Board of Elections meet

The Craw­ford County Board of Elec­tions will meet in ses­sion at 1 p.m. on Thurs­day, Nov. 3, at the board office to process absen­tee ballots.

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Polk Township special meeting

Polk Town­ship Trustees will hold a spe­cial meet­ing for the pur­pose of dis­cussing a mate­r­ial stor­age facil­ity, bids and options and poten­tial use of the open area of the road build­ing, at 7680 SR 309, Galion, at 7:00 pm.

Carter Machine pumpkins on display at hospital

A pump­kin carv­ing con­test at Carter Machine in Galion yielded 37 elab­o­rately carved pump­kins, on dis­play through Mon­day in the lobby at Galion Com­mu­nity Hos­pi­tal. Sev­eral of the pump­kins are pictured here.

Local Happenings

Manda­tory meet­ing for par­ents and ath­letes A manda­tory meet­ing for the par­ents of Galion High School and Galion Mid­dle School win­ter sports ath­letes will be held on Mon­day, Oct. 31 at 6:30 p.m. in the high school cafe­to­rium. The ath­letes are also required to attend. The pur­pose of the meet­ing is for the dis­cus­sion of Ohio […]

Water and Wings

By KEN PARROTT Out­doors Writer The sea­son for three of Ohio’s most pop­u­lar game species—ring-necked pheas­ant, cot­ton­tail rab­bit, and bob­white quail—begins Fri­day, Novem­ber 4. The ODNR Divi­sion of Wildlife is report­ing a good statewide cot­ton­tail pop­u­la­tion but the quail and pheas­ant num­bers may be lower due to the heavy snows last win­ter and the heavy […]

Tigers roar in finale; finish season 8-2

By JON KLEINKNECHT Inquirer Sports Edi­tor sports@galioninquirer.com It was a nice end­ing to a records-setting sea­son. The Galion Tigers beat the Ontario War­riors 36–26 in the season-finale last night at Unck­rich Sta­dium. By win­ning, the Orange-and-Blue wrap up an 8–2 cam­paign — the sec­ond most vic­to­ries in a sea­son since 1997. They placed sec­ond in the […]

Samuel R. “Doc” Thomas

Samuel R. “Doc” Thomas, DVM, of rural Bucyrus died Thurs­day, Oct. 27, 2011, at Part­ners of Mar­ion where he was sur­rounded by fam­ily. Sam was born in 1934 in Pitts­burgh, Penn. to the late Samuel J. and Mary M. (Menk) Thomas. He was a 1952 grad­u­ate of Steubenville High School and received his Bach­e­lor of Science […]