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BG Council gets request to nullify national defense act |
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Written by HAROLD BROWN Sentinel City Editor
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Wednesday, 22 February 2012 10:47 |
The leader of a group opposed to certain provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act said Monday night that Bowling Green City Council's decision not to act on its request won't deter the group's mission.
Daniel Johnson, a Bowling Green State University freshman and founder of People Against National Defense Authorization Act, made his second appearance before council. "We will continue to fight NDAA, speaking to city council, the sheriff, the commissioners, Ohio legislators and federal officials," Johnson said. He was one of several members of PANDAA, a representative of Occupy BG and the head of the Libertarian Party of Wood County to speak in support of one resolution and two ordinances the groups wanted council to consider to nullify the NDAA in Bowling Green.
They told council that the council in North Hampton, Maine, "and several other communities" had taken the action.
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Written by PETER KUEBECK Sentinel Staff Writer
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Wednesday, 22 February 2012 09:55 |
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File photo. Randy Gardner. (Photo: J.D. Pooley/Sentinel-Tribune)
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PERRYSBURG - State Representative Randy Gardner is urging TARTA to fill the three-month public transportation gap from October through December that would be left if the city votes to leave the service on March 6.
In a letter Gardner read aloud before council - and which was sent to TARTA General Manager James Gee - he said, "I am disappointed to learn of the TARTA board's decision to end service to the residents of Perrysburg if the TARTA Withdrawal Issue passes, even though TARTA has received Perrysburg tax revenue for the entire calendar year of 2012."
In crafting TARTA Voters' Rights Act, the amendment to the Ohio Revised Code allowing TARTA members to exit the service, "legislators never considered the possibility that TARTA might tax residents and then refuse to provide service."
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Grant sought for southern EMS district |
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Written by JORDAN CRAVENS Sentinel Staff Writer
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Wednesday, 22 February 2012 09:57 |
NORTH BALTIMORE - The possibility of reviving the Southwood Emergency Medical Service District, designed to serve the southern part of the county, took a step forward Tuesday.
Council, by a vote of 5-1, with member Jeff Bretz voting no, approved seeking a collaborative grant with Hoytville, Henry and Jackson townships and the Wood County Port Authority through the state's innovation fund. The $45 million innovation fund awards communities which find ways to merge or collaborate for services.
Rex Huffman, with the Wood County Port Authority, said Hoytville and the two townships which also have a stake in the EMS District have already passed resolutions in support of the grant, as has the Southwood EMS Board.
"I think they have re-energized and want to review looking at this regardless of how the grant turns out," Huffman told council of the Southwood EMS Board.
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Woodville Mall will be closed for good |
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Written by PETER KUEBECK Sentinel Staff Writer
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Wednesday, 22 February 2012 09:52 |
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| File photo. A view inside the Woodville Mall. (Photo: J.D. Pooley/Sentinel-Tribune) |
NORTHWOOD - The troubled story of the Woodville Mall is coming to an end.
As the result of a pretrial hearing held Tuesday in the court of Judge Reeve Kelsey, the City of Northwood and Wood County Combined General Health District will be filing a default judgment for a permanent injunction to close the mall for good.
Kelsey's office indicated that the defendants in the case, including mall owner Woodville Mall Realty Management LLC, had been properly served but did not file any paperwork to challenge the action. That permitted the filing of the default action.
The mall was initially ordered closed on Dec. 16 following a complaint for a preliminary injunction filed by Northwood and the health district detailing the poor environmental and structural conditions at the mall.
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