The Fostoria Wastewater Treatment Plant’s UV disinfection system will soon be receiving nearly seven hundred fifty thousand dollars in updates.  Upgrades are being paid for primarily through the city’s sewer fund.  The state Environmental Protection Agency has already approved the project.  Ultraviolet sanitation units are used to control bacteria in water by installing UV bulbs to kill microorganisms as they pass through a specific channel in the plant.

Findlay City Council approved $50,000 from the city’s revolving loan fund to help pay for equipment to open a Firehouse Subs store in Findlay.  The sandwich store will be opening soon at the former Friendly’s restaurant location on Tiffin Avenue.  Firehouse Subs has more than 850 locations nationwide and was started about 20 years ago.

The artistic sculpture “Copper Fire” has been installed in front of the Fostoria Municipal Building.  The sculpture, which was purchased by the Fostoria Community Arts Council and the Geary Memorial Fund, was installed on the raised concrete circle behind the gazebo on the municipal building lawn.  City officials hope the installation of the artwork in the heart of the city will provide an aesthetic appeal and serve as inspiration for aspiring artists in the area.

Governor and presidential hopeful John Kasich has taken his turn meeting and greeting voters at Iowa's state fire. Kasich ate grilled pork chops and corn on the cob before giving a 20-minute speech at the fair's political soapbox yesterday, telling the crowd the U.S. must work with other nations to destroy the Islamic State militants.

An unexpected water main repair may prevent part of Findlay’s Lima Avenue from being resurfaced this year.  A water force main along part of Lima Avenue, near the Cooper Tire plant, needs to be replaced immediately, so the road may only be repaved from Main Street to Western Avenue, instead of from Main Street to Lake Cascades Parkway.  The paving will be completed sometime later this year or in 2016

Louis Stokes, the first African-American member of Congress from the state of Ohio, died late Tuesday at the age of 90.  On November 6, 1968, Stokes was elected to Congress on his first bid for public office.  He served 15 consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.  In January, Ohio Gov. John Kasich appointed him as one of 18 members to the Community-Police Relations task force that will provide ideas to build relationships between police and their communities.