A Findlay institution is closing its doors.  Groman’s Music which sells pianos, sheet music and gifts will be going out of business after 60 years.  Owner Steve Groman says that the store was having trouble competing with the internet and big box stores.  The store opened in 1955 by Groman’s father, Ted.

Christy Manley of Grand Rapids, the former fiscal director of the Wood County Juvenile Court has pleaded guilty to an amended theft in office charge after she reportedly took home nearly $54,000 in court deposits and used a portion of that money for personal expenses.  A bill of information was issued against Manley for a third-degree felony count of theft in office in October.  Assistant Wood County prosecutor Tom Matuszak said in court Monday that pursuant to a plea agreement, the charge was amended to a fourth-degree count.  Manley has since returned all of the funds taken is to make a restitution payment of $10,865 to Wood County to cover the cost of the audit performed in the case.  Matuszak said the prosecution would seek a sentence of community control when Manley is sentenced Feb. 1 at 11 a.m.

Bowling Green State University football player 21-year-old Michael Minns II of West Palm Beach, FL has been suspended indefinitely after allegedly putting a controlled substance into another student's drink in a downtown BG restaurant on November 22.  Police are working closely with the business and are looking at security footage of the incident. At this point police are not sure exactly what type of drug was put into the drink.

Findlay school board approved a contract to upgrade district-owned property on Romick Parkway where school buses will be parked.  The money, to come from the district’s permanent improvement fund, will go toward concrete, lights, and cameras for an area where district buses will be parked outdoors next to a garage building.  The district does not plan to house buses inside the existing building or construct overhangs to cover them.

Carey school board of education gave verbal approval Monday to move ahead with specifications for an athletic building and bus garage.  Last month, Superintendent Michael Wank received school board approval to continue discussions with architects and construction officials about building an athletic building and bus garage on the property of the new school on South Vance Street.  The athletic building will have an 8-foot-high split-face block wall with steel above and a metal roof. Previously, the building would have been a pre-engineered steel and masonry building. The bus garage would be a pole barn-style building with a concrete floor and would keep 12 buses under cover, and include a storage area and service bay for bus maintenance.