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Snow hits, more to come

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Area residents used snowblowers, snow plows and snow shovels to dig out from a winter storm that hit late Friday and Saturday. Another storm is to hit tonight. Staff photo/William Laney
 

MIKE BURKHOLDER
and WILLIAM LANEY
Staff Writers
A winter snow storm, which dumped as much as 3 feet in the Washington, D.C. area, hit the area with as much as 9 inches of snow in Wapakoneta and some areas of Auglaize County.
The snowfall came with high winds which created drifts as tall as 4 feet causing hazards for the city and county roadways.
Wapakoneta weather observer Dan Dietz calculated 8.5 inches of snow fell in Wapakoneta Friday and Saturday. The National Weather Service is predicting as much as 10 more inches starting with a light snow at midnight with most of the snow falling throughout the day Tuesday before tapering off early Wednesday morning.
Wapakoneta Public Works Superintendent Meril Simpson said city crews hit the roads at 4 a.m. Saturday, but the high winds hampered their effforts.
Crews worked until 4:15 p.m.. Saturday and returned Sunday and worked from 7 a.m. to 1p.m. before heading back out early this morning.
“We are attempting to clear the roadways the best we can and we are dumping more salt and grit this time,” Simpson said this morning. “The temperature is still too cold for the salt to work, but if we get enough sun it may warm it up enough to help.”

 
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Tearing down a house
Friday, 18 September 2009
By KAREN CAMPBELL
Assistant Managing Editor
 At least one area of Auglaize County is to receive some grant assistance from the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program.
“We OK’d one project in the county,” said Auglaize County Administrator Joe Lenhart, who serves as the county’s representative on a regional committee to determine how funding would be split.
He said an abandoned house south of Buckland is planned to be torn down and removed, and the ground around it cleared with the $20,000 allocated to Auglaize County.
Only certain areas of the county were eligible to use the funding and they had to be in low- to moderate- income areas.
“I talked with the mayors and we originally had one or two more suggested, but they fell through,” Lenhart said of how this particular location was chosen.
The region, which included Auglaize, Shelby and Miami counties, and the cities of Troy, Piqua and Sidney, received more than $1.1 million through the federal program, but Shelby and Auglaize, which had less need, approved the more urban areas to receive more of the funding to help their projects go further.
“We didn’t have as much of a need, so we both decided to do one project, at about $20,000 each,” Lenhart said.
The Auglaize County project has been submitted for approval and is ready to proceed once the Ohio Historical Society gives its blessing.
“We’ve put our specs together, but we probably won’t do it until next spring,” Lenhart.
Funding came from the state’s Department of Development under Title III of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act passed in 2008.
The regional group received grant funding in June, but first began meeting in February to discuss how they might want to divvy up the dollars. Lenhart said they gave up one of their projects to give Miami County more to work with as they tore down houses and built homes with Habitat for Humanity.
“We’re looking at one project with the money we got, but if we have enough left over, we could do another,” Lenhart said.
He said there were no homes in the county condemned by the Health Department that would qualify.
“We sat around and discussed our needs,” Lenhart said of the regional group. “When we got done our wish list was about $2 million. We started dwindling it down to see how the money could best be divided and used.”
He said originally this funding was expected to be the first round of the program, but a second round now is to be a much more competitive process with a majority of funds going to bigger areas in more need.
Last Updated ( Monday, 21 September 2009 )
 
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