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Orange Township has hired Nathan McNeil as its new fire chief.
A recently retired U.S. Air Force veteran, McNeil previously was deputy fire chief at Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico and at Clear Air Station in Alaska. His 22-year active-duty military career included stations in Texas and Missouri, plus multiple deployments overseas.
Township trustees approved his hiring April 5.
“It’s not different at all,” McNeil said of military and civilian fire service, “in that they have the same purpose, which is to serve a community.”
“That’s a strength I see here. That everyone in the department has the desire to serve and to offer their best at all times,” McNeil told
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Only one candidate has filed petitions with the Clintonville Area Commission in each of the three districts set to elect commission representatives in 2021.
Incumbents Brittany Boulton in District 5 and Michael Weinman in District 7 are seeking reelection.
Hugh Crowell will run in District 4, where commissioner Judy Minister had announced she will not seek reelection.
“The CAC has been looking for candidates all along and write-in candidates are welcome,” said Ann Henkener, election committee chair. “The deadline for submitting a candidate packet for write-in candidates is (April 2).”
Henkener added that the three candidate packets returned were the only ones picked up, and that all three races will be uncontested unless write-in candidates are received by April 2.
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With the cost of construction now set, work can begin in earnest on the Delaware County District Library’s new Liberty Branch Library.
DCDL officials in late February voted to accept a price projected by Columbus-based Marker Inc., not to exceed $12.22 million, for the building planned at the northwest corner of Home and Steitz roads.
DCDL board president Michael P. Butler said he was elated by the decision.
“We’re going to be the showcase in Ohio,” Butler said.
The price keeps the overall cost for the project, including land acquisition, at or slightly under budget, library spokesperson Nicole Fowles said.
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Questions remain regarding the fate of the city of Powell’s income-tax ballot issue after a March 11 special meeting of the Delaware County Board of Elections.
The meeting addressed a challenge filed with the board regarding the issue.
The challenge, signed by Jan S. Simonis of Industrial Affairs, states, “I do not believe that due process was followed to correctly place this issue on the ballot. Therefore, I respectfully challenge the placement onto the ballot and request that this issue be revisited in a formal hearing.”
During the meeting, Yaz Ashwari, legal counsel for Powell, questioned the appropriateness of such a hearing that could affect the placement of the issue on the ballot.