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Another councilman resigns in Walbridge |
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Written by DEBBIE ROGERS Sentinel Staff Writer
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Thursday, 09 May 2013 10:36 |
WALBRIDGE - With the resignation of one of its members, council has until the end of the month to fill the seat. This is the third time this year that council has had to select a new member.
Council accepted the resignation of Nathan Eikost at last week's meeting. Eikost, who wasn't at the meeting, said in a letter that he has been hired as a Rossford police officer. He also is a Lake Township dispatcher.
Mayor Ed Kolanko said council has 30 days to fill the seat, or the job falls to him. Interested people should submit a letter to the office.
Council had to select two new members in January after Mayor Dan Wilczynski forfeited his seats over too many missed meetings, and Councilman Pat Fox followed him out the door. Kolanko, who was council president, was sworn in as mayor. The new council members picked were Ken Gilsdorf and Ron Liwo.
Eikost was elected to council in November 2011 after finishing a term with the Lake Board of Education. When Eikost was elected to the school board in 2007, he was 18 years old, in his senior year at Lake, and possibly the youngest person in Ohio ever to be elected to a board of education.
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Written by JAN LARSON McLAUGHLIN Sentinel County Editor
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Thursday, 09 May 2013 10:32 |
Ohio universities may soon be forced to choose between encouraging student voting and receiving lucrative out-of-state tuition.
An amendment to the budget bill was passed by the Ohio House last month that would no longer allow universities to charge out-of-state tuition if they provide students with proof of residency documents for voting.
For Bowling Green State University, the importance of voting could lose out to the need to boost the budget with out-of-state tuition rates. According to BGSU spokesman Dave Kielmeyer, the university would otherwise lose an estimated $22 million annually, "which would be devastating," if it did not charge the higher rates to its 2,312 out-of-state students.
In the past, BGSU has issued letters to on-campus students stating their local addresses as proof of residency so they could vote in Wood County.
The amendment, however, would force public universities to classify students living on campus as in-state if they receive utility bills or official letters that can be used for identification when voting in Ohio. Consequently, BGSU could no longer charge those students the higher rate for out-of-state tuition.
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Perrysburg debates salary increase for court employee |
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Written by PETER KUEBECK Sentinel Staff Writer
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Thursday, 09 May 2013 10:34 |
PERRYSBURG - The same night that voters went to the polls to narrow down his possible successors, outgoing Municipal Court Judge Dwight Osterud went before City Council for one of his own employees.
Osterud asked for a raise for longtime Municipal Court Clerk Janice Elkes, who had accidentally been overlooked for years due to changing pay processes.
"I'm looking for equity," said the judge.
"As you know, City Council sets the court administrator's salary. I was under the mistaken belief that the council had taken care of Janice from 2005 through 2012. I was mistaken, and when I found that out, I asked that her salary be increased. And that occurred last August," an increase that amounted to about a six-percent raise. However, over that time, her pay would have gone up 19 percent.
With an additional four percent increase requested by the judge, Elkes' salary would go from $83,237 per year to $86,760, retroactive to January of this year.
City Administrator Bridgette Kabat said Elkes was apparently "lost in the shuffle" about seven years ago due to her status as a court employee when the structure of awarding raises for non-bargaining personnel changed.
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BG community embraces 'Wonder' |
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Written by JORDAN CRAVENS Sentinel Staff Writer
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Thursday, 09 May 2013 09:04 |
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| A duct tape art banner made by Bowling Green Middle School students, resembling the cover of the book "Wonder", is seen during a kick off for the Youth Community Reads Program at the Wood County District Public Library on May 1, 2013. (Photos: Enoch Wu/Sentinel-Tribune) |
Bowling Green kicked off its first "Youth Community Reads Month" last week with a book that focuses on acceptance, civility, celebration of differences and choosing kindness.
"Wonder," by R.J. Palacio, follows the story of 10-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with a facial deformity and is about to start fifth-grade at Beecher Prep. Like other kids, Auggie just wants to fit in and have friends.
As part of the kick-off on May 1, those in attendance received "Choose Kind" bracelets, which had suggestions for acts of kindness attached to them. One suggestion was to "apologize for your mistakes and make amends." There was also a large board in the Children's Place filled with suggestions for kindness and supplies for making bookmarks promoting kindness.
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