An organizational meeting Tuesday night helped cement the bricks of the 2009 Heart of Ohio Tour — a tradition as much a part of Knox County’s culture as farming is to the county’s heritage.
Just as the new school year is about to begin, Knox County Sheriff David Barber has informed the schools that the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program will be absent from county classrooms this fall.
It took some digging to avoid some digging. The digging being done Monday was at the Knox County Service Building, where Apple Valley property owners Joe and Mary Jo Balistreri met with the Knox County Commissioners, Water and Wastewater Superintendent Ron Simpson and Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Charles McConville to figure out how a deck came to be built on top of a county utility easement.