A boil advisory remains in effect for the downtown area of Fostoria.  Residents and business were asked to begin boiling water at 6pm last night and to continue for forty-eight hours or until further notice.  The city is working on a mainline.

North Baltimore school officials will be asking voters to renew an income tax on the May ballot.  The renewal is on a one percent five year tax.  The tax that generates $695,000 annually for general operating expenses was first approved in 2006.

Former Bettsville Local School treasurer Roger Luring was sentenced to five years of community control after being convicted of having an unlawful interest in a public contract.  According to the March 2013 charge, Luhring hired Luhring Roofing, which is owned by his brother, to make repairs at the school.  Luhring is to report to his supervising officer today.  He also is to pay a $1,000 fine and court costs.

Betco of Toledo is renovating and adding on to an existing facility in Bowling Green that will bring 170 new jobs.  Betco makes cleaning products for industrial and commercial use and currently has three different locations in Toledo.  They will be under one roof in Bowling Green in the former Cooper Standard Hose Plant on Van Camp Road.  Production at the new site will begin in January 2016.

The Ohio Public Works Commission awarded Tiffin $500,000 in grants and interest-free loans to rebuild North Sandusky Street.  The project to rebuild all four lanes is to begin at Hall Street and run south to Miami Street.  Grants for the project total $300,000, while $200,000 would be a 10-year, interest-free loan.  The city estimates the project cost to be $1.3 million.  Repair of sewer lines under North Sandusky Street is to begin this summer, while the rebuild is expected to begin late this year or early next year.

A suspect in a Detroit area robbery last week that left one dead was treated at the Blanchard Valley Hospital for a gunshot wound the same night.  Thirty-one year old  Ujuan Burton of Oak Park was dropped off at BVH by a woman and later taken by Life-Flight medical helicopter to Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo.  Findlay police were suspicious, did an Internet search and found information about the party store slaying and notified Clinton Township police.
 

Governor John Kasich is set to sign a bill today aimed at reducing the toxic algae in Lake Erie.  The wide-ranging bill would stop farmers in northwestern Ohio from spreading manure on frozen and rain-soaked fields.  It also would bring an end to the dumping of dredged sediment in the lake within five years.  Both are thought to be contributing to the growth of algae in the lake.