By Jane Beathard Staff Writer A London-area man will spend six months in prison for trafficking heroin on Jan. 17. Charles E. Kuhn, 35, 6515 Neil Road, pleaded guilty on Thursday in Madison County Common Pleas Court to the drug trafficking charge as part of a plea deal. Because Kuhn has prior trafficking convictions, [...]
By Dean Shipley Staff Writer London is a former stop for runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad. That Civil-War-period fact is not lost to cyclists who are retracing the route, which courses northward from Alabama to Ontario, Canada. A group of seven cyclists pitched their tents Wednesday evening beneath the roof of the Prairie [...]
By Jane Beathard Staff Writer London City Schools continue to get their financial house in order, according to treasurer Kristine Blind. Blind presented a revised five-year forecast for the school district at Tuesday’s board of education meeting. Revenues for the 2013 fiscal year ending on June 30 totaled $18,591,323, while expenses fell to $17,830,982. [...]
By Dean Shipley Staff Writer The Mt. Sterling Council wants to do some “fix-up” in the village so they took the first step Monday evening, May 13 to fund those projects. The council passed on first reading an ordinance which will earmark 25 percent of its income tax revenue in the general fund specifically [...]
By Jane Beathard Staff Writer The jury trial of a Pike Township man accused of growing marijuana in his backyard garden last summer was averted at the last minute on Tuesday after the defendant pleaded no contest to the charge. Prospective jurors waited outside the Madison County Common Pleas Courtroom as attorneys negotiated the [...]
By Jane Beathard Staff Writer The Ohio Wildlife Council will take a second look next week at deer-hunting rules it already approved for the 2013-14 season. A special council meeting is set for 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 15, at the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) District One Wildlife Office, 1500 Dublin Road, [...]
By Dean Shipley Staff Writer A new 4-H club is literally growing itself from the ground up. On Friday, May 3, the Beginners and Winners 4-H Club gathered on some local acreage to begin a sweet corn project they hope will come to fruition by mid-July. Beginners to Winners 4-H Club started recently and [...]
By Jane Beathard Staff Writer Janis Thom resigned as treasurer of the Jonathan Alder Local School District on Monday after Superintendent Gary Chapman and independent accountants found errors in her five-year financial forecast, including an overstatement of revenue. Those errors forced the district to begin cutting expenses immediately in order to avoid ending the [...]
