Former Fostoria City Council Clerk and President Dave Clark died Wednesday after a two year battle with lung cancer.  He was 57 years old.  Clark first served on city council from 2001-2005.  He then became clerk of council, but ended his 8 year term  when he was diagnosed with the disease in July, 2014.  In 2016, Clark returned to public service by winning the November 2015 election for council president.  A 1978 graduate of Fostoria High School, Clark received an associate degree from Terra Technical College in Fremont. He would then go on to work as an engineer for the Roppe Corporation, retiring after more than 30 years.

The City of Tiffin saw a steep decline in its crime rate in 2015.  According to the Uniformed Crime Report, Part I Crimes decreased for the third consecutive year. Part 1 crimes are murder, rape, robbery, grand theft auto, larceny theft, assault and arson.  TPD Chief Fred Stevens said the decrease occurred partly because of a change in strategy of solving cases faster.  54 percent of follow-up investigations were solved last year. The report states the national average for 2015 was 23 percent.

Tiffin Community Reinvestment Group received 14 entries in a contest to win rent-free office space in the Laird Building for one year.  The contest deadline was Aug. 1, and property manager Tyler Shuff said he reviewed all the applicants during the past 10 days.  Shuff and reinvestment group members are to narrow the field to eight finalists in the next few days, and finalists will have about a month to put together a 15-minute PowerPoint or other types of presentations about their business plans.  Each entrant will be invited to present his or her plan before a panel of seven judges Sept. 21.

Shots being fired in Risingsun prompted the Wood County Sheriff’s Office to tell residents in the Bradner and Bay Roads area to stay inside.  The advisory was issued at 11:45 last night and lifted at 3:19am this morning.  The sheriff's office asked at that time that people in that area remain in their homes until further notice while officers investigate activity there.

Hancock-Wood Electric Cooperative will break ground on a solar project east of Findlay at 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19.  The OurSolar array will offer a green-energy option for the nearly 11,000 residential homeowners served by Hancock-Wood.  The project will place 300 panels east of Findlay at the northwestern corner of U.S. 224 and Marion Township 215.  Funded through Ohio’s electric cooperatives and maintained by Hancock-Wood, the solar station is expected to be ready for use in late summer or early fall, Walton said.