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AS Sidney idney man he held ld in Oman ffor or 10 da ys days has been fr eed. d. freed. Accor ding According to a po sti ng on the o posting F acebook site, e, F ree Facebook Free Billy Holcomb, mb, fam fam-ily member aid memberss ssaid tthat hat W illiam â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;Billyâ&#x20AC;? Billy â&#x20AC;? William Holcomb, 42, 2, w as was rreleased eleased aatt 5:30 30 a.m. Monda y. He w as on Monday. was plane back to the United St atees aatt 4 States p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Billy w ould d lik would likee to thank eeveryone veryone o ffor or their thoughts hts and pr ayers during ng this prayers
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of the background checkss done background check one on contr contract act employees employees who hold security clearances clearances â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an issue issue tthat hat ccame ame up recently recent n ly National Security Agency with N ational S ecurity Ag en ncy leaker Edward Snowden. leak er Ed ward S nowden. Navy Secretary Rayy Mabus N avy S ecret ary Ra bus ordered two or dered tw o security rreviews evieews Tuesday how well Navy T uesday of ho ww ell the N avy protects how pr otects its bases and ho w accurately screens workaccur ately it scr eens its w o kor ers. er s. Similarly, President Barack S imilarllyy, Pr esident B arack a ordered Obama has or dered the White hite budget House budg et office to eexamxaamstandards ine security st andards ffor or ggovernment over n me n t ccontractors o nt rac t o rs an aand d employees across federal agenemplo yees acr oss feder al ag gencies. S See ee NAVY NAV Y | 5
The S Sidney idney ey City Schools S chools Board Education heard B oard of Educa tion hear d updates levy upda tes on the le vy campaign approved several personand appr oved se veral per sonnell actions during Mondayy ne g Monda eeveningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vening â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meeting. meeting eeting. Renee R enee Davis, Davis, is, co-chairwoman co - chairwoman of the levy levy committee, c commit tee, rreporteporteed d that that the the levy l evy is i s oon n the the November ballot. No vember ballot allot . She S he said said the committee commit tee iss working workking on gathgathcommittee ering a steering ing commit tee and ggetting etting a mailing iling together. tog gether. The committee commit tee is continuing public meetings meeting gs with th this campaign. Meetings Meeting gs will ill be Oct. Oct . 23 aatt 11:30 a.m. and nd 6:30 p.m. aatt the Sidney-Shelby YMCA, Oct.. S idney-Shelby by YMC A, and Oct 24 aatt 11:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. aatt the Amos Memorial Public Library. Information Libr ary. Inf o orma tion also is
sidneyschoolslevy. aavailable vailablee aatt sidney schoolslevyy. oorg. rg. board approved The boar d appr oved the ffolollowing personnel employment lo wing pers sonnel emplo yment per actions: Â&#x161; J J[Y^ [ [Y^ ikffehj if[Y_Wbif[Y_Wb ist,, $17.47 ist 7.47 per hour hour,, Eric McKinnis. is. Â&#x161;I IkXij_jkj[ kXiij_jkj[ j[WY^[hi j[WY^[hi" i" .-$+) per da dayy as needed, Br Brandy andy Bidlack and P Pam am Canady Canady.. Â&#x161; 9b 9bWii_\_[Z bWii_\_[Z ikXij_jkj[i0 substitute ute aides, $10.22 per hour, Ladene ho ur, L aden e Butler B u tler and Dianne M Murray; urray; substitute Yeeai" Yeea i" .$.' f[h ^ekh1 ikXikX secretary, stitute secr et aryy, $12.34 per Butler; sub-hour,, Ladene adene B utler; and sub stitute custodians, $12,26 per hour, JJoshua hour, o oshua Childs, Candace Lawrence, Shatto, Stacey La wrence, ce, Mark Mark S hatto, St acey Lawson, DeLong,, Linda La wson, Penny Penny Stackonis, St ackonis, is, Bruce Goble and Murray. Dianne M urray.
Â&#x161; I Ikffb[c[djWb kffb[c[dj Wb Yedjh YedjhWYji0 WYji0 ''j^ ''j ^ ]hWZ[ ]hWZ[ WZl_i[h" WZl_i[h" ,-." Megan M e ga n K Kistner; istner; 1 12th 2 t h grade g ra d e WZl_i[h" WZ l [h"" ,-." @@e[ l_i e[ IfWd]b[h1 IfWd]b[h1 musical sical dir ector, $1,355, director, N athan t Hesse lbart; and junior Nathan Hesselbart; vvarsity arssity s bo wling coach, $1,355, bowling Murray. Dianne anne M urray. Â&#x161; L Lebkdj[[h eebkdj[[h j[dd_i YeWY^" Ryan R yan a S Sheets. heets. T The boar board d vvoted oted to accept the rresignation esignation due to rretireetire ment nt of P Paul aul B Benshoff enshoff as superintendentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s secreschool ool superintendentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s secr ettary. aryy. A Amy Zorn Z orn w was as appr approved oved as the rrepresentative epresent ative to the Shelby Libraries Board S heelby County Libr aries B oard Trustees of T rustees to complete the Mikee Puck Puckett term m of Mik ett ending JJune une ne 2019. board approve T boar The d vvoted oted to appr ove the rreorganization eorg ganization of the Western W estern stern Ohio Computer
Local drive-in hopess for more ore votes Voting V oting has been eextended xtended thr through ough F Friday rida day in the Honda da Pr Project oject Drive-In Drive -In campaign, gn, which the S Sidney idney A Auto uto V Vue ue Driv Drivee In has been a part of ffor or several several w eeks. weeks. Honda had d announced tha thatt it w would ould pur purur-chase eexpensive xpensiv nsive digit digital al pr projection ojection equip equipip ment ffor or the five five driv drive-in e -in thea theaters ters tha thatt ggaraarner ed the most ost vvotes otes fr om the public. The nered from fivee thea theaters thatt won fiv terss tha won are are in Saco, Saco, Maine; ne; Honor,, Mich.; Graham, Texas; McHenry, Honor .;; G raham,, T exas;; McHenry y, Ill., ll.,, Newberg, Ore. and N ewbergg, g Or e. But B ut Sunday, Sundaay, Honda eextended xtended the vvoting oting ng thatt it will award and announced ced tha award another her equipment.. The S Sidney Autoffour our sets of equipment idney A uto to Vue Drive-In thatt thous thousands area V ue Driv e -In n hopes tha ands of ar rea www.projectdrivein.com rresidents esidents will ll visit www .projectdrivein.com om next few days it.. in the ne xt fe ew da ys to vvote ote ffor or it theater doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t If the thea ater doesn â&#x20AC;&#x2122;t win, oowners wners Sam S am a Katheryn have way and Ka theryn n Rees Rees will ha ve to find a w ay purchase digital order to pur chase the digit al equipment in or d der theater necessary to kkeep eep the thea ter open. The necess a ary projectors more. theaters pr ojectors cost st $75,000 or mor e. All thea ter errs have new must ha ve thee ne w systems systems in place because use movie distributors provide mo vie distributor butors will no longer longer pr ovide de non-digital nondigital films. ilms.
Organization O rg ganization iinto nto a rregional egional government from council of g overnment fr om m its current organization statucurr ent or rganization as a st atuchange tory consortium. The chang ng ge allow WOCO improve will allo w W OCO to impr ove stream providits rrevenue evenue str eam by pr ovid v organiing services to outside org gani a zations provide za tions and will also pr ovide v organization moree autono autonothe org ganization mor ono staffing. my oover ver st affing. board approved The boar d appr oved rrevising evising sing board weapons the boar d policy on w eapons ons trained teachers to include the tr ained teacher herrs administrators and administr ators to function tion personnel. Security as security pers sonnel. S ecurity rity personnel weapper sonnel will not carry w e eap have ons but they will ha ave rready eady ady handguns stored access to handg guns stor ed d in ssafes afes equipped with biometric tric locks. lock s s. board: In other business, the boar ard: Â&#x161; 7Zefj[Z j^[ WddkWb jk_j_ed jk_jj_ed See S ee BO BOARD ARD | 3 Congressman Jim Congressman m Jor dan (left) (left) ttalks alks Jordan Panel Control with P anel C ontrol o Inc.. P President Sandy Inc resident S andy ndy Wells, W ells, of of Anna, at PCI during an aaward war ad cceremony eremony Tuesday. Tuesday. Honda aawarded warded PCI ffor or being a key key supplier.. Jor Jordan supplier dan dis ddis-cussed how cus sed ho w positive positiive curit is that PCI is cur urrrently ently eexpanding. xpanding. # 29>9 29>9 n ?5/ ?5/ <988/,/<1 <988/,/<1
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U.S. U .S. R Rep. ep. JJim im JJordan, ordan, R R-Urbana, -Urb bana, re recalled ecalled baseball baseball great greeaat Orel Orel Hershiser Herrshiser sh hiser as he congratcongratulated ulaated P Panel anel Contr Control ol Inc. Incc. (PCI) emplo employees yees uesday. in Anna T Tuesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Great â&#x20AC;&#x153;G reaat things thing gs happen n to or ordinary dinary peo peo-are willing ttoo w orkk hard hard and ple who are work never neever give give up,â&#x20AC;? up â&#x20AC;? Jordan up, Jord dan quoted Hershiser. Herrshiser shiser.. â&#x20AC;&#x153;America â&#x20AC;&#x153;America is a country of ordinary ordinary people ord â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who accomplish great grreaat things. thinggs. Good things thinggs donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just happen. happeen. It takes takes w work, orrk, effort, effort, sacrifice. sacrifice. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s alw always ways appr appropriate opriate to
ttake ake timee to rrecognize ecognize achievement.â&#x20AC;? achieevement.â&#x20AC;? The achievement acchieevement in this case was was the building of a contro contr control ol pane panell last Octoberr by PCI emplo employees ployees in just four four days days to meet meeet a n lant critical need of the Honda Engine Plant in Anna. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of our our equipment equipment suppliers supplierrs in in Ann Arbor, Arb b r, Mich., had fallen far behind bor behind h schedule,â&#x20AC;? ,â&#x20AC;? said said Matt Matt Daniel, Daniel, of Sidney, Sidney neyy, Anna A Engine Engine gi Plant Pl t capital capit itall equipment i t conconstruction n procurement procureement leader. leaderr. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had h expected expected d the machine to be in power-on powerr-on See S ee HOND HONDA A|4
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