NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. — While his family and friends are shoveling snow back home in sub-zero weather, Tod Cornell is working his dream job in paradise. Gene Cornell of Kenton refers to his son as “the lighthouse keeper” of Anclote Key on the western coast of Florida.

Amish farmers brace themselves against the freezing wind with an umbrella as they transport ice on a wagon on a Buck Township road. The bitter cold temperatures are expected to give way to milder readings next week. Times photo/Dan Robinson

Peacock Water staff members Dan Needham and Jeremy Schreck have successfully completed the professional service seminar at Kinetico’s Service Academy, the training arm of Kinetico Incorporated, Newbury.

Paul Eugene Dick, Bellefontaine – speeding 54 mph in a 35 mph zone, fined $25.

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. 25 Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. 26 Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air.

The 2018 Conservation Tillage Club breakfast program series will begin on Tuesday, Jan. 9 at the Plaza Inn Restaurant in Mount Victory. Each session will start at 7:30 a.m. with complimentary buffet breakfast followed by the program at 8 a.m.

New 1st District State Sen. Rob McColley has learned he has a lot of territory to cover. The Republican from Napoleon started out Thursday from his home, traveled to Defiance, then to Bryan in Williams County and Ottawa in Putnam County.

ADA – When his community needed him most, Ian Fogle stepped up to the challenge. This month, Fogle begins his term as the youngest councilman in the history of the Logan County village of West Mansfield, which has a population of about 700 residents.

A Kenton man has been identified as a Tier I sexual offender after he admitted to having sexual relations with a 15-year-old girl. According to court records from Prosecutor Brad Bailey’s office, Robert R. Jones, 15676 CR 115, Kenton, pleaded guilty to one charge of importuning and Judge Scott Barrett sentenced him to 30 days of local incarceration.

ADA — The Ada Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying a subject who robbed the 302 Carryout in Ada on Wednesday night. At approximately 11:30 p.m., police said an unknown white male wearing a dark blue hoodie and dark colored sweat pants robbed the store at 302 S. Main St., Ada, of an undisclosed amount of money.