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Vol. 123 No. 164 August 17, 2013 Sidney, Ohio www.sidneydailynews.com $1.00
Ohio unemployment unchanged for July
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Ohio’s unemployment rate was 7.2 percent in July 2013, unchanged from June, according to data released Friday morning by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS). Ohio’s nonfarm wage and salary employment increased 5,300 over the month, from a revised 5,205,600 in June to 5,210,900 in July. The number of workers unemployed in Ohio in July was 416,000, up 3,000 from 413,000 in June. The number
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of unemployed has increased by 1,000 in the past 12 months from 415,000. The July unemployment rate for Ohio was unchanged from 7.2 percent in July 2012. The U.S. unemployment rate for July was 7.4 percent, down from 7.6 percent in June and from 8.2 percent in July 2012. Total Nonagricultural Wage and Salary Employment (Seasonally Adjusted) Ohio’s nonagricultural wage and salary employment
increased 5,300 from a revised 5,205,600 in June 2013 to 5,210,900 in July, according to the latest business establishment survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor (Bureau of Labor Statistics) in cooperation with ODJFS. Goods-producing industries, at 852,000, lost 500 jobs over the month. Job declines in construction (-3,100) outweighed job gains in manufacturing (+2,400) and mining and logging (+200). The private service-providing sector, at
Kathy Leese ANNA — Anna Police Chief Scott Evans has reportedly rejected an offer from the village that would require him to resign. Mayor Bob Anderson said Friday the village has been taking steps since Tuesday’s council meeting to resolve issues with Evans. He confirmed that Village Solicitor Steve Geise made an offer on behalf of the village that
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“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.” — Edith Wharton American author (1862-1937). For more on today in history, turn to page 5
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would involve Evans resigning, but Evans turned it down. Details of the offer were not made public. Because Evans refused to resign, Geise is now working on plans for a public hearing to be held Aug. 27 following the regular 7 p.m. village council meeting. Evans is currently under paid suspension over a residency requirement, which he failed to meet, See REJECTS | 2
Maurer named Teen of the Year
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3,612,800, gained 9,100 jobs. Employment increased in leisure and hospitality (+4,500), trade, transportation, and utilities (+2,500), other services (+2,100), educational and health services (+1,400), and financial activities (+800). Losses occurred in information (-1,200) and professional and business services (-1,000). Government employment, at 746,100, decreased 3,300 as declines in local (-3,900) and
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Tom Grilliot, of McCartyville, picks tomatoes in his garden Friday. Grilliot is also growing jalapeno peppers, bell peppers, cabbage, broccoli, cucumbers and — he hopes — turnips. Grilliot gives most of his produce away to friends.
The Sidney Noon Kiwanis of America, FFA, Something Club has named Colleen Creative, Foreign Language Maurer its 2013 Teen of the Club and Sidney Kiwanis Year. Teen of the Month. Maurer graduated Among her extracurfrom Botkins High ricular and community School this spring as activities and awards, valedictorian with a Collen has participatgrade point average of ed in FCCLA for four 4.023. years, Volleyball, Track, She is the daughAcademia, Future ter of Curt and Laura Teachers of America, Maurer. FFA, S omething Her academic Creative and Foreign activities, honors, Colleen Maurer Language Club. and awards included Her communihonor roll, FCCLA, volley- ty activities include 4-H, ball and track scholar ath- Comprehensive Youth lete, president of National Ministry, Special Olympics Honor Society, class secre- and Big Brothers/Big Sisters. tary, high school office assisMaurer plans to attend tant, FFA Green-hand Award Bowling Green State and Scholarship Award, University to study speech Academia, Future Teachers pathology.
CIA acknowledges Area 51 — but not UFOs or aliens Hannah Dreier Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — UFO buffs and believers in alien encounters are celebrating the CIA’s clearest acknowledgement yet of the existence of Area 51, the top-secret Cold War test site that has been the subject of elaborate conspiracy theories for decades. The recently declassified documents have set the tinfoil-hat crowd abuzz, though there’s no mention in the papers of UFO crashes, blackeyed extraterrestrials or staged moon landings. Audrey Hewins, an Oxford, Maine, woman who runs a support group for people like her who believe they have been contacted by
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extraterrestrials, said she suspects the CIA is moving closer to disclosing there are space aliens on Earth. “I’m thinking that they’re probably testing the waters now to see how mad people get about the big lie and cover-up,” she said. For a long time, U.S. government officials hesitated to acknowledge even the existence of Area 51. The CIA history released Thursday not only refers to Area 51 by name and describes some of the aviation activities that took place there, but locates the Air Force base on a map, along the dry Groom Lake bed. It also talks about some cool
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A car moves along the Extraterrestrial Highway near Rachel, Nevada, in this April 10, 2002, file photo. The CIA is acknowledging the existence of Area 51 in newly declassified documents. George Washington University’s National Security Archive obtained a CIA history of the U-2 spy plane program through a public records See CIA | 5 request and released it Thursday.
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