By Sarah Einselen Inquirer Reporter The new Crestline high school is still on schedule for a Christmas 2012 move-in, but a new issue is jeopardizing the timeline. “The roof is kind of a problem right now,” said Crestline school board member Robert Salvati at the special board meeting held on Monday, Feb. 27. The roof […]
Students from Galion Intermediate and Galion Primary schools gather with Dawn Burkholder, PTO president, around the two cardboard bins full of items to be sent to area troops deployed overseas. The schools collected the items during a donation drive last week after receiving word that the Support Galion Troops group had run out of items […]
Patterns are worse to fold back up than maps are. “Don’t fold the maps. Roll the maps,” I hear one of the sidekicks in the movie Twister sighing. And I picture him standing with a thin pattern-paper hanging from his upraised hand, a puzzled look on his face. I’d like to see him try to […]
By Sarah Einselen Inquirer Reporter What do you do with blighted properties? The Crawford County Regional Planning Commission discussed that question at its monthly meeting Wednesday, Feb. 22. Recent revisions to a section of the Ohio Revised Code have allowed local communities to form “land banks” to deal with dilapidated, unsafe properties. RPC director Michael […]
By Sarah Einselen Inquirer Reporter Galion’s 23-year-old fire truck is just getting old, according to fire Chief Phil Jackson. Jackson presented the case for buying a new, $360,000 fire truck before city council last Tuesday, Feb. 14, saying that of the two city fire trucks, one is so old that it’s obsolete and missing critical […]
Kimmel Cleaners is closing its Galion storefront at 602 Harding Way West, but the company expects to keep doing business in the city. Mark Kimmel, third-generation owner of the family business, said Thursday that he and his wife Kathy are coordinating with another local business to establish a drop-off point where customers can take their clothes […]
MedFlight of Ohio is going forward with plans for its helicopter base at the Galion Municipal Airport. The company has moved a Lodi-based helicopter to the Mount Gilead EMS center to temporarily cover the area until construction is completed in Galion. “As we work to complete the permanent helicopter base of operations at Galion Airport, […]
By Sarah Einselen Inquirer Reporter The Galion Area United Way just hit the two-thirds mark in its goal to raise $120,000 for area agencies, incoming chairman Pennie Fox announced at the organization’s annual meeting Feb. 21. A $25,000 grant from the Arthur J. Freese Foundation tipped United Way over the halfway mark. Fox, who was the […]