ST. MARYS - For the first time in more than two decades, city officials want to increase the service charge on electric service to help pay for infrastructure and personnel costs.

Director of public service and safety Gregory Foxhoven and utility office supervisor Carol Lengerich at Monday night's electric committee meeting proposed raising the monthly residential service charge from $3.50 to $10. [More]

FORT RECOVERY - Heavy damage was sustained to the village's Pak-A-Sak store early Sunday morning after an alleged drunken driver drove a pickup truck through the front glass doors.

Matthew M. Brockman, 25, 301 Fox Road, Fort Recovery, reportedly also was involved in another accident prior to driving his 2007 Dodge Ram truck into the store front. He was cited for two counts each of operating a vehicle while impaired and failure to control and for leaving the scene of an accident. [More]