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Vol. 123 No. 171

August 28, 2013

Sidney, Ohio

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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Momentum appeared to build Tuesday for Western military action against Syria, with the U.S. and France saying they are in position for a strike, while the government in Damascus vowed to use all possible measures to repel it. The prospect of a dramatic U.S.-led intervention into Syria’s civil war stemmed from the West’s assertion — still not endorsed by U.N. inspectors — that President Bashar Assad’s

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government was responsible for an alleged chemical attack on civilians outside Damascus on Aug. 21 that the group Doctors Without Borders says killed 355 people. Assad denies the claim. The Arab League also threw its weight behind calls for punitive action, blaming the Syrian government for the attack and calling for those responsible to be brought to justice. British Prime Minister David Cameron recalled Parliament to hold an emergency vote Thursday on his country’s response. It is unlikely that any

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A crane lowers one of the modular sections Monday of the new LanePark, a senior living community being built on West Russell Road in Sidney. Members of the construction crew help guide the modular unit onto the base of the building.

Modular construction brings LanePark together LanePark Sidney, the senior living community being built on West Russell Road, has been drawing the interest of Sidney citizens. Utilizing modular construction, the building is composed of modules, or boxes, which crews of skilled workers assemble in a factory, transport by truck and then join together on a prepoured foundation.

A large crane has been moving these modules around recently as LanePark enters the second phase of it’s construction. Jerry Lenhart, executive director of LanePark, said the building is 50 percent complete and these new “boxes� will augment what is already assembled. “I’ve been wowed by the accuracy and technology

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not to drive Assad from power or impact the broader trajectory of Syria’s bloody civil war, now in its third year. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday the West should be under no illusion that bombing Syrian military targets would help end the violence in Syria, an ally of Moscow, and he pointed to the volatile situations in Iraq and Libya that he said resulted from foreign military intervention. Syrian Foreign Minister

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international military action would begin before then. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said U.S. military forces stand ready to strike Syria at once if President Barack Obama gives the order, and French President Francois Hollande said France was “ready to punish those who took the heinous decision to gas innocents.� Obama is weighing a response focused narrowly on punishing Assad for violating international agreements that ban the use of chemical weapons. Officials said the goal was

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The 10 most dangerous intersections in the city of Sidney were revealed during Monday night’s Sidney City Council meeting. Topping the list on the traffic study compiled by Randy Magoto, engineering manager, was the Michigan Street and Vandemark Road intersection. There were 14 accidents at the intersection in 2012, said Magoto. In the previous study, the intersection was No. 2. Magoto said there were 560 vehicular accidents in 2012 in the city of Sidney’s public right-of-way. He said previous studies were an average of three years. This year’s study was for just 2012. No. 2 on this year’s list was Court Street and Ohio Avenue with 12 accidents. Last

that produces such modules,� he said, “but the thing that really impresses me is the ecological, or ‘green’ advantage to this type of construction. And this is all built to the same stringent I2 building code standard as any new nursing home or health care facility would be.

U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Black has dismissed a lawsuit filed by William Trapp of Sidney against a number of local and state officials in which he alleged violations of his Constitutional rights, stating they were “vague allegations of wrongdoing.� Trapp, who was represented by Dwight Brannon of Brannon and Associates in Dayton, filed the lawsuit against former Shelby County Sheriff Dean Kimpel, Shelby County Common Pleas Court Judge James Stevenson, former Shelby County Prosecutor Ralph Bauer, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, AG Special Prosecutor Chris Wagner, current Shelby County Sheriff John Lenhart and Montgomery County cold case special investigators Larry Kincaid and William Wertz. Also named were Shelby County Sheriff’s Deputies Chief Deputy James Trapp Frye (then a lieutenant detective) and Joanie Henry, as well as former Shelby County Sheriffs Mark Schemmel and Doug Schlagetter, Dr. Fred Haussman, who provided medical care for the Shelby County Jail inmates, and Debra Lee, a Shelby County Jail nurse. Kimpel, Stevenson, Bauer, Wagner, Kincaid, Wertz, Frye, Henry, Schemmel, Schlagetter, Haussman and Lee

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School begins for Sidney staff members and students The new school year came with a number of changes for Sidney City Schools. The district welcomed 49 new staff members, including three satellite teachers from the Upper Valley Career Center, plus six new security officers — the largest incoming class of educators the district has seen in a number of years, much of this due to turnover as a result of retirement. At the administrative level, Sidney City Schools welcomed Tammy Drerup as special education Director, Doug Zimmer as assistant principal at Sidney High School,

and Clayton Westerbeck as principal at Sidney Alternative School. Also new to the district are Jessica May and Ryan Sheets, both school psychologists. At Sidney High School, new teachers include Ebenezer Blay, science; Molly Cline, orchestra director; John Derr, social studies; Levi Hahn, intervention specialist; Nathan Hesselbart, choir director; Jen Lichty, math; Nathan Short, math; Damon Smith, physical education; Meghan Smith, guidance counselor, and Tim Tennant, intervention sSpecialist. Also at Sidney High School are three new

satellite teachers from the Upper Valley Career Center: Steve Stamper, exploring technology; Kreg McCullough, vo-ag; and Mary Ellen Buechter, career based intervention. At Sidney Middle School, new teachers include: Laurie Jordon, sixth-grade language arts; Matt Kerns, technology; Joe Moniaci, sixth-grade intervention specialist; Megan Moore, eighthgrade language arts; Bill Rippey, eith-grade math; Erica Scully, eighth-grade science; David Steinman, sixth-grade intervention specialist; Zachary Watson, eighth-grade See SCHOOL | 9

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