The City of Findlay will be performing work on two projects this week.  Workers will be continuing to install a waterline on CR 99 between Forest Trail Drive and Technology Drive.  CR 99 will be reduced to one lane.  Forest Trail Drive will be closed today, as well.  The City will also be starting construction of a new storm sewer in the area of G, H, Lynn and Walnut Street causing portions of those streets to be closed over the next few weeks.
 

The Seneca County Commission on Aging has purchased the former Galaxy Diner in Fostoria and plans to move the Fostoria Senior Center to the location.  The commission will spend $90,000 when the purchase is finalized on Wednesday.  According to Brian Glover, the director of the commission’s board of trustees, the current East Tiffin Street location is too handicap friendly and doesn’t lend itself to senior services.  The Seneca County Commission on Aging is planning on selling the current senior center in the future.

Ed Byers, Jr., a Wood County native and Navy SEAL, will be awarded a Medal of Honor.  Byers is being recognized for his heroic action in Afghanistan in December 2012.  The Medal of Honor won’t be Byers’ first award.  In his military career, he also has five Bronze Stars, two Purple Hearts, the Joint Service Commendation Medal with Valor Device, two awards of the Combat Action Ribbon, and two Joint Meritorious Unit Awards. 

A Findlay man who led police on a 50-mile chase from Findlay to Sandusky County pleaded guilty and was sentenced in Hancock County Common Pleas Court this week.  38 year old Ismael Gonzalez pleaded guilty to failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer following the January incident.  In a separate case, he also pleaded guilty to aggravated possession of drugs.  Judge Joseph Niemeyer sentenced him to a total of 54 months in prison, 36 months for the first charge and 18 months for the second. His operator’s license was suspended for four years.

An Arcadia man faces a burglary charge after he drunkenly entered a rural Fostoria couple’s home and fell asleep on their couch early Friday.  32 year old Andrew Kimble faces burglary charge for entering a house Township 226, west of Fostoria.  Kimble reportedly got into an argument with his girlfriend Thursday night at a residence in Arcadia.  The suspect’s brother picked him up, but the brothers started arguing.  Andrew Kimble got out of the car on Township 226 as Kimble’s brother drove back to Arcadia, then returning to look for his brother, but was unable to find him early Friday.  During a search for Kimble, which the Washington Township Fire Department participated in, deputies saw footprints in the snow, west of where Kimble was dropped off. Deputies said they approached the home and found Kimble sleeping on the couch around 1:41 a.m. Friday.