It’s week 2 of the Ohio High School football playoffs.  ESPN Radio 1430 WFOB will bring you Tiffin Calvert and Lucas from Bellevue.  Mix 96.7 WBVI will have McComb tangling with Leipsic from Findlay.  Both games kick off at 7:30.  Tomorrow, Mix 96.7 WBVI has Van Buren facing Delta from Holland-Springfield at 7pm.

Charles V. Schaeffer of Fostoria who was sentenced in connection to a fatal 2014 arson will return to court next month to face a charge recently overturned by Ohio’s Third District Court of Appeals.  Schaeffer will go before Seneca County Judge Michael P. Kelbley on Dec. 18 for a hearing to determine whether he will enter a plea to complicity to aggravated murder or stand trial for the second time.  The Third District Court of Appeals reversed Schaeffer’s conviction on the charge, as well as his conviction on one count of complicity to attempted murder, on Aug. 31. The court affirmed his other two charges, complicity to aggravated arson and complicity to murder.
 

Penske Logistics will begin operating out of a $1.5 million, 10,000-squarefoot truck maintenance building being built on Findlay’s northern end and completed in March.  Ohio Logistics will own the building and lease it to Penske, which will hire a total of 25 truck drivers and seven technicians.  Plans for the single-story metal building, on the east side of Distribution Drive and north of Hancock County 212, were approved Thursday by the Findlay City Planning Commission.
 

Tiffin City Council’s Personnel and Labor Relations Committee decided in a Thursday meeting to consider Mayor Aaron Montz's proposal to create a new director of human resources position.  Montz announced his proposal to take the city's human resources responsibilities out of the city administrator's office and to staff the new position with current City Administrator Debra Reamer in a press release Nov. 5.  Montz said he thought it would be easier to find a new city administrator than to find a human resources specialist with Reamer's knowledge of the law and rapport with city employees.

Heidelberg University has received a $500,000 grant from the National Machinery Foundation to support a new co-curricular program that will help students develop the soft skills of communication, collaboration and conflict management that employers are seeking.  The grant is the largest foundation award ever received for a program by Heidelberg.  The co-curricular program will feature six high-impact speakers each academic year, followed up by smaller sessions with experts in the areas of values, work styles, job search skills, communication, collaboration and conflict management.

Tiffin Mayor Aaron Montz and Director of Finance Gwynn Reinhart presented to Tiffin City Council in a committee of the whole meeting Thursday night a proposed 2016 budget.  Highlights include the newly-created director of human resources position, a new police officer, changes in how the city negotiates with its health insurance provider and nearly $1.6 million devoted to street repairs.  The budget anticipates a $3.4 million carryover from 2015 in the city's General Fund and $11.6 million in projected income.