The Findlay City School District could be offering Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program for high school students in the near future.   JROTC is a cooperative effort between the Army and high schools and is meant to develop citizenship, patriotism and self-reliance, improve communication, develop an appreciation of the importance of physical fitness and increase a respect for the US armed forces.  JROTC could potentially cover half of the physical education for students enrolled in the program.  There would be an estimated cost of around $45,000 to launch the program.

A Seneca Common Pleas Court jury found twenty-one year old Jarrod R. Pfeiffer of Tiffin guilty of two counts of aggravated arson for setting a fire at Walmart in Tiffin.  The former Walmart employee had started the fire with a 6-volt battery, metal hook and piece of paper in the sporting goods section.  Pfeiffer said he started the fire after a manager told him he was working too slowly.  Judge Michael Kelbley ordered a pre-sentence investigation for Pfeiffer, who was taken into custody by the Seneca County Sheriff’s Office.

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manferd says Pete Rose has submitted a new request to be reinstated to baseball.  The career hits leader agreed to a lifetime ban in 1989 following an investigation that concluded he bet on the Cincinnati Reds to win while managing the team.  He applied for reinstatement in 1997 and met in 2002 with Commissioner Bud Selig who never ruled on the application.

At last night’s board meeting, Fostoria City Schools hired Drew Bauman as the new Fostoria Junior/Senior High School principal effective August 1.  Bauman had been an assistant principal at the school.  The board also hired Jennifer Abell as the director of student services.  Abell had been a school psychologist for 17 years in the district.  Both Bauman and Abell are graduates of Fostoria High School.

The I-75 widening project through Findlay may be moved up a year from 2017 to 2016.  As part of a larger project to widen I-75 from Findlay to Toledo, they state is planning to widen the highway through Findlay from south of Harrison Street and Hancock County Road 144, which is just south of the Ohio 15-US 68 interchange.  The project includes replacement of the Ohio 15 interchange.  If it is moved up, work would start in spring 2016.  If not, work would begin in spring 2017 and continue to the end of 2019.

The State of Ohio may be seeing a change in the speed limit.  Speeds on the Ohio Turnpike and rural roads would increase to 75 mph in changes inserted into a transportation budget.  Senate Transportation Chairwoman Gayle Manning said an earlier decision to raise Ohio’s statewide limit to 70 mph has resulted in virtually no negative impacts.  The amendment was among dozens folded into a $7 billion, two-year transportation budget headed for a committee vote and final Senate approval.