New London Park Area Expanded
New London announces an expansion of the park area at the Recreation Center to improve mosquito control and add recreation facilities. The 40 acre clearing project began last June, with wood sold to Blanton of Rochester and pulp buyers. Plans include mowing, picnic tables, daffodils, labeled trees, and a potential small lake to collect surplus groundwater.
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New London
Park Board
John Kelly
Bill Blanton
Rochester
Kelly
Blanton
Norwalk City Council Agenda Includes Several Ordinances
Norwalk Ohio council schedules 7 30 pm meeting with readings on police hours and holiday pay and annexation. It also lists contracts for centerlining street work and boiler repairs and reports from mayor treasurer engineer and health board appointment. Police investigate after school assault on Norwood Avenue near Chestnut Street. another boy reports being threatened.
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Norwalk
City of
Huron County Regional Planning Commission
Ohio
Director of Public Service and Safety
Merrit S. Friedley
Huron County Department of Health Board
Norwood Avenue
Chestnut Street
City Notes Litter Pick-Up By Girl Scouts Planned Today
Girl Scouts under Mrs A P Sheehan will conduct a litter pickup across five city areas including Pleasant Benedict League Maplehurst and St Pauls schools. About 200 girls from 20 troops are expected with supports from multiple coordinators. Trucks will dump refuse at a landfill free of charge and the theme Dont drop it dump it guides the effort.
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A.P. Sheehan
Pleasant Street
Benedict
League
Maplehurst
St. Paul’s
Library Schedules Final Free Day
Norwalk Public Library ends its Wednesday free day after spring cleaning and overdue returns. The library board says the program, promoted as a second chance, has led to misuse and will no longer serve a purpose.
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Norwalk Public Library
Norwalk Library Board
Perkins Woman Held In Shooting Probe
Perkins, Erie County deputy sheriffs hold Linda Hicks 228 Dixie Ave in a shooting investigation at the Hicks home reported at 5 23 a m. Two women injured Mary Aaron and Hattie Mae Morris were hospitalized in satisfactory condition with gunshot wounds reported in the hip and mouth area respectively.
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Perkins
Erie County Sheriff's Department
Linda Hicks
Dixie Ave
Sheriff's Department
Hicks
Mary Aaron
Hattie Mae Morris
Providence
Sheriff's Deputies
Hughes Named Marion Plant Director for General Phone Units
Allen W. Hughes of Norwalk is promoted to plant director of General Telephone Co of Ohio in Marion, overseeing construction installation and maintenance for Northern and General. He moves from Marion program center director to replace retiring Feris Pratt and will take the post May 1. Hughes, a former operating VP at Northern Ohio Telephone, has a 1947 start with General Telephone and is a Navy veteran with five children.
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Marion
Allen W. Hughes
Norwalk
General Telephone Co
Ohio
F.W. Hamper
Northern Ohio Telephone Co
Bellevue
General
Northern
General Telephone & Electronics Corp
New York
Hughes
Feris H. Pratt
General Telephone of
Michigan
U. S. Navy
Muskegon Community College
Western Michigan University
University of Michigan
Susan
Trucker Charged After Route 20 Crash Near Norwalk
Darrell D. Coate 43 of Unipolis Ohio faces a stop sign violation charge after a semi trailer left Route 20 east of Norwalk early Friday. Coate sustained minor injuries and was treated and released. A second crash on Seel Road near Route 269 involved Michael E. Payne 22 of Bellevue whose car hit a telephone pole. Payne was uninjured.
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Darrell D. Coate
Unipolis
Norwalk
State Highway Patrol
Coate
Michael E. Payne
Bellevue
Payne
Seel Road
Monroeville Parking Lot Crash Injures Vehicle
Mrs. Carl P. Ludington of Monroeville reported her car was struck while parked in the Kroger lot on Milan Avenue. Two youths said a blue car hit hers and a second car. Investigating police found a taillight assembly matching a 1964 Dodge Dart at the scene.
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Carl P. Ludington
Monroeville
Norwalk
Kroger
Milan Avenue
Three Norwalk High boys Found Safe in Barn Behind Bank Street
Three students from Norwalk High School, reported missing Friday, were located by Norwalk police in a barn behind 8 Bank Street.
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Norwalk
Bank Street
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Elliott Kastner
Richard Burton
Clint Eastwood
State
Patrick Wymark
Michael Hordern
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Metrogolor
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Colo
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Mayor’s Court
Ronald J. Mingus
Ford Ave
James E. Hyatt
Adams
Joseph Nigro
Money Shop
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