Jeff Wobser has been appointed by the Hancock County Republican Central Committee to fill the vacant at-large Findlay City Council seat for the rest of the year.  Wobser was elected last month to a two-year term in the same seat and will begin that term in January.  The at-large seat became vacant after Anne Spence resigned to become the northwestern Ohio liaison to State Auditor Dave Yost’s office.

The Findlay-Hancock County Public Library will be participating in Ohio’s “open checkbook” at OhioCheckbook.com.  The Findlay-Hancock County Public Library is the second library in Ohio to post its spending on website.  Taxpayers can now view over 7,000 transactions that equal more than $5.1 million of total library spending over the past two fiscal years.  In 2014, Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel  launched OhioCheckbook.com, which made state spending information available online.
 

37 year old James R. Kiser and 23 year old Gavin E.L. Shaw, both of Tiffin, were arrested in a sting operation at Benner and Sandusky Streets in Tiffin yesterday.  Kiser was arrested for trafficking crack cocaine and Shaw for complicity to trafficking crack cocaine.  The Seneca County METRICH Unit and Tiffin Police performed the operation that yielded money and suspected crack cocaine.  Additional charges of trafficking crack cocaine, permitting drug abuse and possession of criminal tools are pending on Kiser and Shaw.