Rittman gas rate hike draws public outcry
Local outrage follows Columbia Gas approval of a 19 percent rate increase over two years after private negotiations with the city utility committee. Critics allege secrecy, insufficient scrutiny, and potential PUCO and federal review, urging focus on alternative energy sources amid an 8 percent ROI and ongoing energy crisis.
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Columbia Gas
Rittman Council
Utility Committee
Robert Nitz
Columbia
Rittman
Federal Price Board
Ohio Public Utilities Commission
PUCO
Price Board
United Telephone
United States
Politician as People in Civic Education Talk
Lin Williams reflects on a Baldwin Wallace University program with Ohio high school students at Orrville and shares views on political life. He argues politicians are people chosen to reflect public will, urges respect for compromise, and notes politics sustains civilization while allowing progress through shared goals.
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University For Young Americans
Baldwin-Wallace College
Ohio
B-W
Orrville
Ordinance 4856 Recodifies Rittman Ohio Codified Ordinances
The City of Rittman Ohio approves recodification of its ordinances and enacts them as the Codified Ordinances of 1972. It repeals conflicting ordinances and includes new material while declaring an emergency. The council, with two thirds support, contracts with Walter H. Crane Company to prepare and publish the recodification.
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Rittman
Ohio
Walter H. Crane Company
City of
County of Wayne
State of Ohio
Rittman High Lakers Earned Pride Despite District Final Loss
A 1972 Rittman High School basketball team is lauded as among the best in school history. Fans acknowledge a strong season, praise the team’s poise and sportsmanship, and thank the players for their effort after a district final defeat, noting the town’s pride in their achievement.
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Indians
Rittman High
Rittman High School
City of Rittman Codified Ordinances Adopted in 1972
The ordinance adopts codified ordinances with immediate effect as an emergency measure. It repeals prior inconsistent ordinances after January 24, 1972 and preserves rights, contracts, taxes, property deeds, and public works actions. The Clerk and Mayor certify the copy and publish the full ordinance. Passed February 14, 1972. Deloris Wright Acting Mayor Karen Kelbly Clerk of Council R.P. 3-15, 22-1972
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Rittman
Ohio
Ohio R.C. 731.23, the Clerk of Council
Deloris Wright
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Lindsey Williams
Dick Helpenster
Dottie Hilsheimer
Y. Lin Williams
America
Cuba
Egypt
Russia
Guy D. Holland
Columbus
Karen Kelbly
R.P
Holland
Rittman Office
Peoples Federal Savings & Loan Association
Rittman Shopping Center
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