After sparring last Thursday over eligibility criteria for a proposed cost-of-living pay increase for some county employees, Delaware County commissioners on Monday voted 2–1 in favor of a 2 percent pay increase. After going without any increases in pay since 2008, commissioners are hoping to reward the approximately 400 employees under their direction with a 2 percent bump in salary, a concept that all three commissioners are fully behind.
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Barbara A. Snodgrass, 64, of Centerburg died Monday afternoon (Jan. 30, 2012) at Grant Medical Center in Columbus.
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Robert Eugene Madaffer died on Jan. 18 after a short illness.
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In the wake of a Gazette report detailing Delaware County Commissioner Ken O’Brien’s request for an investigation into county economic development director Gus Comstock’s acceptance of tickets to sporting events, fellow commissioner Dennis Stapleton asked Monday for the investigation to expand to cover all county employees and the gifts they may have accepted.
Megan Keller, 13, browses at books while visiting the main branch of the Delaware County Library Monday. Keller, of Saint Timothy School in Columbus, was visiting the library with her mother.
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MIAMI — Cheered by new polls, Mitt Romney is all but predicting victory in Tuesday’s Republican presidential primary. Newt Gingrich is looking past Florida to regroup, vowing he won’t stay buried long.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — A year after Republicans swept into office across the country, many have trained their sights on what has long been a fiscal conservative’s dream: the steep reduction or even outright elimination of state income taxes.
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COLUMBUS — A spotted leopard that was among six creatures kept at an Ohio zoo after an exotic animal escape was euthanized after it was hit by a lowering door between two enclosures and suffered a severe spinal cord injury, officials said Monday.
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