Council discusses projects
By Jeff Gilliland - jgilliland@timesgazette.com
Hillsboro City Council members (from left) Mary Stanforth, Claudia Klein, Ann Morris, Patty Day, Greg Maurer, Mark Middleton and Adam Wilkin are pictured at Monday’s meeting. Council president Tom Eichinger is shown in the background.
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Local resident David Mayer suggested at Monday’s Hillsboro City Council meeting that the city look into a legal review of what has become a controversial sign erected uptown on the former Colony Theatre location.
But after two consecutive monthly meetings where council members questioned the city administration about the sign, neither council or the administration responded to Mayer’s suggestion.
ODNR to the rescue
By Jeff Gilliland - jgilliland@timesgazette.com
Local wildlife officer Jim Carnes holds a snapping turtle he rescued from a swimming pool in Rainsboro.
Photo courtesy of Sue Roush
A snapping turtle rests on a live trap inside a Rainsboro swimming pool before it was rescued.
Photo courtesy of Sue Roush
When it raised its head above the murky waters of her draining pool, Sue Roush said that to her, it looked like Godzilla.
“I had the water halfway down and I saw something swishing around in the water. The water got a little lower and then the thing stuck its head up out of the water. I didn’t know what to think. My first thing was, ‘Oh my God, it’s Godzilla. It was so big,” said Roush, a Rainsboro resident for the last 22 years. “I texted my friend Jill and she said, ‘It can’t be that big.’ I said, ‘I’m telling you…’”
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