Delaware Hayes will be well represented at the upcoming Division I State Swim Meet, as Pacers will be competing in a school-record five events Friday and Saturday at Canton McKinley High School.
COLUMBUS — A lockup along the shores of Lake Erie has become the first state prison in the nation to be sold to a private company. Lake Erie Correctional Institution in northeastern Ohio’s Ashtabula County is the only one of five state prisons up for sale that will be sold, state officials said Thursday. Corrections Corporation of America will buy it for $72.7 million, more than the $50 million needed from the privatization effort to balance the state’s prison budget.
Leon Marshall (Mac) McCorkle, 96, Marion County businessman and civic leader from 1948 through 1964, died Feb. 2, 2011, suddenly and unexpectedly at home.
As an appetizer to today’s main course, a pair of local athletes — Buckeye Valley’s Austin Hilt and Big Walnut’s Luke Atkeson — competed during the first day of the OHSAA State Track and Field Championships Friday at Ohio State’s Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.