Doing thyme: Ohio inmates growing food to save money May 29, 2009
Sandusky County Sheriff Kyle Overmyer got the idea for a vegetable garden at the jail in Fremont after he was forced to reduce his budget by $75,000 this spring. Low-risk inmates who are allowed to mow lawns and do other chores around the county planted about an acre and a half of fruits and vegetables on jail grounds three weeks ago. (AZCentral -- News)
College basketball, prep softball, baseball, tennis Apr 1, 2008
FREMONT TACKLE FOOTBALL: The Sandusky County YMCA in Fremont has a tackle football league for boys and girls in the fifth and sixth grade. Participants cannot be 13 years of age before Sept. 1, 2008, and must weigh 180 pounds or less. (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
Turnout overwhelms Texas polling sites; bad weather and ballot shortages in Ohio Mar 6, 2008
Precincts in northern Sandusky County were also ordered to stay open an extra 90 minutes after 300 to 400 voters were turned away when ballots ran out. Voters in Cuyahoga County seemed to adapt to paper ballots counted by optical scanners. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
BREAKING NEWS ALERT: CNN: Hillary Clinton Takes Ohio Mar 5, 2008
Polls in two Ohio counties remained open until 9 p.m. A judge granted the secretary of state's request to keep open polling in Sandusky County, a northwest Ohio county that ran out of paper ballots. And another judge ordered the Cuyahoga County board of elections to keep 22 Cleveland precincts open after hearing arguments from the Barack Obama campaign. (WKRC.com, OH)
Long delays bedevil new Ohio voting system Mar 5, 2008
In Cuyahoga County, in the Cleveland area, and in Sandusky County, icy weather and shortages of ballots owing to astounding interest in the Democratic race led judges to order the polls to stay open for several hours after the scheduled time. At midnight, only scattered results were available from large urban centers, such as greater Cleveland, Dayton and Cincinnati. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Ballot shortages plague Ohio primary Mar 5, 2008
Various precincts in Sandusky County ran out of ballots, and about 300 to 400 voters were turned away. All polling places stayed open there stayed until 9 p.m., Ms. Brunner said, adding that the ballot printing devices in the county elections office broke down, so new ones could not be supplied. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Winter storm mars Ohio voting Mar 5, 2008
Northern Sandusky County also stayed open to allow voters more time to get to the polls under freezing rain. Election workers had to turn away 300 to 400 people, after precincts handed out every ballot available. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Clinton counters Obama surge with Ohio, Texas wins Mar 5, 2008
A judge agreed to hold open the polls in Sandusky County and some in Cuyahoga, hit by an ice storm, until 9 p.m. to allow voters an extra hour and a half to get there. Ballots ran out earlier in the day, forcing election workers to turn away several hundred people. (USA Today)
Grand Rapids celebrating art and jazz Aug 16, 2007
Sandusky County Fair opens Tuesday and runs through Aug. 26 at 901 Rawson Ave., Fremont. 38 Special performs at 8 p.m. Aug. 24; Sawyer Brown and the Nashville Star Tour perform at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 25. (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
