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HUBBARD TOWNSHIP Township trustees welcomed a new police chief while recognizing the retiring chief, who served the community for more than 39 years.
Trustees on Monday named Sgt. Greg Tarr as chief effective Friday. He will replace Todd Coonce who is stepping down the same day.
“I look forward to leading the department and my officers into a new year. This past year has been a difficult year for everyone. I will meet with all the staff next week to discuss operations,” Tarr said.
Tarr, a Hubbard city resident, has spent his entire 27-year police career with the department, the past seven as sergeant. He said his main priority is to serve the residents.
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Hubbard Township retiring police Chief Todd Coonce, left, welcomes Greg Tarr, who will begin his duties Friday as the new chief. At a special meeting Monday, Hubbard Township trustees named Tarr to lead the department. He had mostly recently been a sergeant in the department. Coonce had been in law enforcement for 39 years.
HUBBARD TOWNSHIP Township trustees welcomed a new police chief while recognizing the retiring chief, who served the community for more than 39 years.
Trustees on Monday named Sgt. Greg Tarr as chief effective Friday. He will replace Todd Coonce who is stepping down the same day.
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Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green has charged local feed manufacturers to engage with local scientists to fast-track research on finding local substitutes for animal feeds, the input for which is largely imported.
The minister, who was delivering the keynote address at the donation of 20,000 baby chicks and 25 tonnes, or 1,000 bags, of broiler feed with a combined value of $4,215,000 by the Jamaica Broilers Group at its corporate suite in McCook’s Pen, St Catherine, said COVID strictures had brought this shortcoming to the fore.
“There may be events that cause significant breaks in our supply chain, there may be events that cause the closure of our borders. If that happens and all the feed that we give to our prize chickens are imported, then how do we go forward?” he asked.
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BROOKFIELD Township officials soon will receive information from the Ohio Historic Preservation Office about including historic homes and businesses around the state Route 7 center green on the National Register of Historic Places online database.
Trustee Gary Lees said at the December trustees meeting he received a letter as did the Brookfield Historical Society from Mary Beth Hirsch, education and support services for the Ohio Historic Preservation Office in Columbus, about properties around the township center green and to get information on those buildings.
Lees said once all the data on the homes and other buildings is gathered, information will be given to the historic preservation office.