FORT RECOVERY - Growing up next to the railway has made a lifelong impact on Tom Zitter.

Zitter, president of Big K Mills, plans to lay roughly a mile of track around his rural Fort Recovery property for a locomotive he is restoring and five train cars he is recreating. [More]

ST. MARYS - Longtime council president Dan Hoelscher wants to retire and be re-appointed to his council post so he can begin collecting public retirement funds.

In a letter this week to Auglaize County Board of Elections and St. Marys city officials, Hoelscher said he will retire from council and his full-time job at Crown Equipment Corp. at the end of this year. [More]