The City of Findlay and Hancock County, along with Blanchard Valley Hospital are looking into the possibility of joining the Findlay School District’s planned fiber network.  The City of Findlay is interested in connecting 31 locations and Blanchard Valley Hospital is interested in 36…As of now, the estimated cost of the fiber network for the school district is $1.5 million.

A family has filed a lawsuit against the director of a Toledo funeral home after the discovery of 11 bodies intended for cremation. The wife of a 55-year-old man who died in May accuses Tate Funeral Services and its director of mistreating the body by failing to have it embalmed or properly refrigerated as required by state law.

The Carey school board approved an enterprise zone agreement between the village and Halla Visteon Climate Control, of Detroit, Michigan, for a 100 percent tax abatement if the company locates in a recently-constructed industrial park on the village’s east side.  The tax abatement will be on new construction and machinery for a maximum of 10 years.  The agreement will be considered by Carey Council and Wyandot County commissioners during the next few weeks.  If the company locates in the village, it will hire 140 workers over the next three years.

A state Senate committee is scheduled to hear public testimony on its proposed changes to Ohio's two-year budget that includes a 40-cent tax increase on a pack of cigarettes and tax relief for small businesses. Majority Republicans highlighted the policy revisions in their $71.3 billion spending blueprint yesterday. Their plan is set to come before the Senate Finance Committee this morning.

Rettig Brothers Furniture, located on U.S. 224 west of Findlay, will become Art Van Furniture’s first franchise store in Ohio, after remodeling and expanding next month.  The new store will be called Art Van Findlay.  The new store will carry LaZ-Boy, Natuzzi Leather and Flexsteel, house Art Van PureSleep and an Art Van Clearance Center, and feature Ohio’s Amish-made solid wood furniture.  Art Van Furniture operates 48 furniture stores in the Midwest, and 44 freestanding PureSleep mattress stores.
 

The North Central Electric Cooperative annual meeting and family fun day today at the Seneca County Fairgrounds in Tiffin.  This is the second year family fun day has been added to the cooperative’s annual meeting format.  Children rides, bounce houses, magic shows and face painting will be featured from 1 to 5 p.m. The 79th annual business meeting will begin at 6 p.m.  The event is open to cooperative members and their families. Registration will open at 1 p.m. All children will be issued a wrist band upon registration in order to participate in youth activities.

The state Supreme Court today takes up the case of a death row inmate fighting the state's second effort to have him executed, claiming it would amount to double jeopardy. Corrections officials had to halt Romell Broom's execution in 2009 when they were unable to find a usable vein for the lethal injection drugs.

Ohio is introducing a special license plate available for immediate relatives of any member of the U.S. armed forces who died outside a combat zone while serving honorably in the military.  The "military sacrifice" plate being unveiled by officials today was made possible through a law that took effect in March.  It is being offered for spouses, children, parents, grandparents and siblings of qualifying service members.  The new design joins about 40 special license plates that the state offers to recognize veterans' service and recipients of certain military medals.