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PAINESVILLE – Council held first reading on six resolutions authorizing the city to proceed with the demolition of unsafe structures at the Sept. 5 council meeting.

CONCORD TOWNSHIP - Service Director Frank Kraska reported concrete road work was completed in Kellogg Park Estates at the Sept. 9 Board of Trustees meeting.

LAKE COUNTY – Commissioner Dan Troy stated he thought it was time for the Board of Commissioners to commence talks with the Lake County Engineer’s Office about the future of the Vrooman Road Bridge Project at the Sept. 9 meeting.

LAKE COUNTY – Commissioner John Hamercheck reported at the Sept. 7 Board of Commissioners meeting that there was a County Commissioners Association of Ohio Metropolitan Regional Affairs Committee meeting Sept. 6.

JEFFERSON – John Bove pled not guilty to three charges of rape, aggravated murder and murder added during a Friday, Sept. 8, hearing to a ten-count indictment arising from his alleged kidnapping and murder of Kara Zdanczewski, a 13-year-old Ashtabula girl.

JEFFERSON – A Sept. 6th grant from the Ohio Attorney General’s Office will allow for the creation of a new county rapid-response team partnering the sheriff’s office with local drug-treatment organizations to offer counseling and referrals to drug rehabilitation facilities for assessment, detoxification, ongoing drug treatment and aftercare in the wake of a nonfatal drug overdose.

GENEVA – How to convince Geneva voters to approve a proposed raise of the city’s income tax from its current rate of 1.5 percent to 2.2 percent this fall was the matter under consideration at a meeting of the city’s finance committee held Monday, Sept. 11.