"Other Ashlands" — A 10-part series

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Downtown Ashland, Kentucky, features tree-lined streets. The city is located on the Ohio River and has a population of 21,506.

Just across the river

With a population of about 21,000, Ashland, Kentucky, is not only the closest Ashland geographically to ours in the United States but also the closest in size.

Though Ashland, Kentucky’s population is similar to that of Ashland, Ohio, the Kentucky city is part of the Huntington-Ashland-Ironton metropolitan area, which is home to 365,000 people in the tri-state area of West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio.

Just south of the Ohio River, Ashland advertises itself as a provider of “true southern hospitality” and as the birth-place of famous country music artists Billy Ray Cyrus and the Judds.

Mayor Chuck Charles said some of the city’s highlights include its 47-acre Central Park, its recently redesigned Riverfront Park on the Ohio River and its refurbished Paramount Arts Center.

But it’s the people, he said, that make Ashland unique.

“It’s a tremendous city — a city that really comes together. With that attitude, it’s amazing what you can accomplish,”

Charles said, adding that individuals and civic groups pulled together to develop hiking trails in the city.

The city is located along U.S. 23, which is recognized by Kentucky as “The Country Music Highway.” Ashland con-siders itself to be Kentucky’s country music capital.

By COURTNEY DAYT-G Staff Writer

Kentucky’s Ashland is close by, similar in size

Ashland, KentuckyPopulation:.21,506Demographics.(in.2010):.93 .9.

percent.white,.2 .8.percent.black,.1 .9.percent.two.or.more.races,.0 .6.percent.Asian,.0 .6.percent.other,.0 .3.percent.American.Indian.and.Alaska.native;.53.percent.female,.47.percent.male;.Per.capita.income:.$23,643;.Median.household.income:.$33,045;.22.percent.below.poverty.level;.Median.age:.41 .2

Distance.from.Ashland,.Ohio:.202.miles

Where.name.came.from:.Named.for.Henry.Clay’s.estate.in.Lexington,.Kentucky .

Interesting.fact:.Ashland.was.known.as.Poage’s.Landing.or.Poage.Settlement.after.the.original.settlers.until.Kentucky.Iron,.Coal.&.Manufac-turing.Co ..bought.much.of.the.town’s.land.and.laid.it.out.into.plots.in.1854 .

Most.famous.natives:.The.Judds.and.Billy.Ray.Cyrus,.country.singer.and.father.of.Miley.Cyrus .

Leading.industries:.SteelTop.employers:.King’s.Daughters.

Medical.Center,.Marathon.Petroleum.Co ..LP,.Our.Lady.of.Bellefonte.Hospi-tal,.AK.Steel.Corp ..and.Boyd.County.Schools .

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Towns named for Henry Clay’s Kentucky estate

Several of the country’s Ashlands, including Ashland, Ohio, were named after the estate of 19th century statesman Henry Clay in Lexington, Kentucky.

Clay (1777-1852) was a lawyer, land owner, livestock breeder and farmer before beginning his political career in 1803, when he was elected to the Ken-tucky General Assembly. Clay went on to become a United States senator and a speaker of the U.S. House of Representa-tives, as well as secretary of state.


Benghazi suspect in custodyBy LOLITA C. BALDOR and NANCY BENACAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — U.S. special forces seized a “key leader” in the deadly Benghazi, Libya, attack and he is on his way to face trial in the U.S. for the fiery assault that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, the Obama administration announced Tuesday. It was the first breakthrough in the sudden overseas violence in 2012 that has become a long-festering political sore at home.

President Barack Obama said the capture on Sun-day of Ahmed Abu Khattala sends a clear message to the world that “when Americans are attacked, no mat-ter how long it takes, we will find those responsible and we will bring them to justice.”

“We will find you,” Obama declared.As recently as last August, though, Abu Khattala

told The Associated Press that he was not in hiding nor had he been questioned by Libyan authorities about the attack at the diplomatic compound. He denied involvement and said he had abandoned the militia. Administration officials said Tuesday that despite his media interviews, he “evaded capture” until the weekend when military special forces nabbed him.

Whatever the path to his capture, he was headed for the United States to face what Obama called “the full weight of the American justice system.” Obama called the Libyan an “alleged key leader” of the attacks, and said he was being transported to the U.S., without saying exactly how or where.

Abu Khattala was the commander of a militant group called the Abu Obaida bin Jarrah Brigade and is accused of being a senior leader of the Benghazi branch of the terror organization Ansar al-Shariah in Libya.

On Capitol Hill, Republicans urged the adminis-tration to get as much intelligence out of Abu Khat-tala as possible before anyone reads him his rights to remain silent, supplies him with a lawyer and

Courtesy of Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate, Lexington, Kentucky

Henry Clay’s estate is known as Ashland for the many ash trees located on the property.

Graffice withdraws original plea, pleads guilty to assault charge

The teenager charged in the assault of a downtown business owner admitted to his actions Tuesday.

Dalton Graffice, 18, withdrew his not guilty plea and pleaded guilty to a single count of felonious assault, which is a second-degree felony. Graf-fice entered the plea to the indict-ment, which was filed Dec. 5.

When asked by Common Pleas Court Judge Ronald P. Forsthoefel to recite the nature of the plea agree-ment, Ashland County Prosecutor

Chris Tunnell said there was none.“The state has made no offers to

the defendant,” Tunnell said. “This is a straight-up plea to the indictment with no promises or expectations made on the state’s part.”

A complaint with one count of felo-nious assault was filed against Graf-fice in Juvenile Court last summer after he allegedly punched Ashland business owner Kent Comstock in the head July 11 while Comstock tried to break up a fight outside Bullshooters bar. Graffice was 17 years old at the time of the incident.

By DAN KUBACKIT-G Staff Writer

InsideThe idea

for a series about other Ashlands around the United States got its start from an unlikely source — a family night of watching the television game show “Wheel of Fortune,” Page A4.

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Libyan militant captured

Dalton Graffice sits with his attorney, Rolf

Whitney, during his change of plea hearing

Tuesday in Ashland County Common Pleas

Court. Graffice entered a guilty plea to a felonious

assault charge stemming from an attack on Kent

Comstock last summer.

Times-Gazette photo/Tom E. Puskar

Black River selects new superintendentBy COURTNEY DAYT-G Staff Writer

SULLIVAN — Chris Clark will be the new super-intendent at Black River Local Schools, the district announced Tuesday.

A 1984 graduate of Black River High School, Clark said he is looking forward to “coming home” after spending the last 25 years working in Madison Plains Local Schools near London, Ohio.

For the past nine years, Clark, 47, was high school principal in the small, rural district southwest of Columbus. Before his work as an administrator, Clark taught agricultural education in the Madison Plains district for 16 years.

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In addition to country music, Ashland residents love their car shows and festivals, said convention and visi-tors bureau administrative assistant Mary Ann York.

On the first Friday of each month of the summer, the city closes a section of the downtown area for a classic car show and live entertainment. If that sounds familiar, it could be because Ashland, Ohio, also has a car show downtown each summer.

While Ohio’s Ashlanders are taking in the sights and sounds of BalloonFest, residents of Ashland, Kentucky, are enjoying a festival of their own — the annual Summer Motion. Each Inde-pendence Day weekend, the city plays host to a series of free country, rock and Motown music concerts along with fireworks, games and rides in the city’s Central Park and riverfront areas.

“It has something for everybody and people really like that,” Charles said of Summer Motion.

Just as the Ashland County Fair is wrapping up in September, festivities are beginning in Ashland, Kentucky, for Poage Landing Days, a festival designed to promote the commercial, cultural and social welfare of the area.

The festival features car and motor-cycle shows, live entertainment, a beauty pageant, arts and crafts and children’s activities and celebrates the heritage of what once was known as Poage’s Landing or Poage Settlement.

The town’s name was changed to Ashland in 1854, more than 30 years after the former Uniontown, Ohio, was renamed Ashland.

In 1854, the Kentucky Iron, Coal & Manufacturing Co. was chartered and the company purchased a large part of the present site of the city and laid it out into lots. One of the company’s founders, Levi Hampton, suggested the name Ashland.

Like our Ashland, the Kentucky town was named for Henry Clay’s estate in Lexington, which is about 120 miles from Ashland, Kentucky.

Hampton had been a close friend and lifelong admirer of Clay.

Major industrial employers in the early 20th century included Armco, Ashland Oil and Refining Co. and Allied Chemical & Dye Co.’s Semet Solvay Division. Like in Ashland, Ohio, as industry has declined, the service sector has grown. The city’s largest employer now is King’s Daughters Medical Center.

■ Courtney Day can be reached at 419-281-0581, ext. 243, or [email protected].

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Though his repeated campaigns for the presi-dency were unsuccessful, the Whig party leader became known as the “great compromiser” for the roles he played in the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Tariff Compro-mise of 1833 and the Com-promise of 1850.

“He helped to ensure the country’s survival and nurture it from infancy to adolescence,” said Eric Brooks, curator and site manager of the museum at Ashland. “His efforts resulted in a situation in which it was possible for the Union to win that (Civil) war.”

In 1804, Clay began to acquire land for his Lex-ington estate, which by 1809 became known as Ashland because of the many ash trees on the property.

Brooks said the estate still has two to three ash trees old enough to have been on the property in Clay’s day, as well as many newer ash trees that have been planted more recently.

Ashland has been open to the public as a historic house museum since 1950, after periods of ownership by descendants of Clay and by the University of Kentucky.

Today, the estate is owned by the Henry Clay Memorial Founda-tion and designated as a National Historic Land-mark, attracting about 11,000 to 12,000 visitors each year.

The main mansion, where Clay once lived, is the primary attraction of the estate, and visitors regularly take guided tours of the building.

Also on the grounds are two brick conical ice houses, a smokehouse with a coach wing, a grounds keeper’s cottage and a wash house and privy.

Brooks said people sometimes mistakenly believe the museum is located in Ashland, Ken-tucky, but the two are more than 100 miles apart.


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Summer Motion is the big festival of the summer in Ashland, Kentucky. The event, scheduled around the July 4 holiday, includes concerts, fireworks, games, rides and food.

Town’s name changed in 1854

Central Park is considered the crown jewel of the city’s park system. The 47-acre space includes more than 1,000 trees, recreational facilities, a pond with fountains, a bandstand, the city’s oldest house and Native American mounds.

Estate open as museum since 1950prepares him for trial in a

U.S. courtroom. In fact, Sen. Saxby

Chambliss of Georgia, top Republican on the Intel-ligence Committee, said interrogation of the Libyan already was underway and “we hope to find out some positive things.”

Abu Khattala is charged with terror-related crimes in U.S. District Court in Wash-ington and will be tried like a civilian, the administration said. The Obama admin-istration policy is to treat terror suspects as criminals when possible and not send them to the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, like hundreds of terror sus-pects captured during the administration of President George W. Bush.

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell of Ken-tucky said the U.S. should skip the legal niceties and focus on interrogation.

“The most valuable thing we can get from this terror-ist is information about who else was involved in this,” McConnell told reporters. “We’ll be watching closely to see how much information they glean from him and how they’re handling it.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., added: “We should have some quality time with this guy — weeks and months. Don’t torture him; have some quality time with him.”

Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi declined to comment on whether Abu Khatalla had been read his “Miranda rights” or when that might happen.

“As a general rule, the

government will always seek to elicit all actionable intel-ligence and information we can from terrorist suspects in our custody,” Raimondi said in an email.

The Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, on the 11th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Stevens was the first U.S. ambassa-dor to be killed in the line of duty in more than 30 years. In the immediate aftermath, political reaction formed along sharply drawn lines that hold fast to this day.

With the presidential election near, Republicans accused the White House of intentionally misleading voters about what sparked the attack by portraying it as one of the many protests over an anti-Muslim video made in America, instead of a calculated terrorist attack on the president’s watch. Obama, for his part, accused the Republicans of politiciz-ing a national tragedy.

After 13 public hearings, the release of 25,000 pages of documents and 50 sepa-rate briefings, more congres-sional hearings are yet to come.

According to a criminal complaint unsealed Tues-day, Abu Khattala is charged with providing, attempting and conspiring to provide material support to terror-ists that resulted in death; discharging, brandishing, using, carrying and possess-ing a firearm during a crime of violence, and killing a per-son in the course of an attack on a federal facility and con-spiring to do so. Officials said he could face the death penalty if convicted of the last charge.

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In October, about a month after Graffice turned 18, Juvenile Court Judge Damian Vercillo ruled that Graffice be tried as an adult, and the case was moved to Common Pleas Court.

By pleading to the indictment Tuesday, Graf-fice avoided a July 1 trial. Graffice previously had scheduled a change of plea in April, but changed his mind on the morning of the hearing. After that hearing, Tunnell said the state had not made a plea

agreement offer and that Graffice was planning to plea to the indictment.

Forsthoefel ordered a pre-sentence investigation report be conducted and set Graffice’s sentencing hearing for Aug. 11.

The felonious assault charge carries a presump-tion of a prison sentence, according to the judge, with a term between two years and eight years. Graffice also could be fined up to $15,000 and face a probation period of at least three years.

■ Dan Kubacki can be reached at 419-281-0581, ext. 237, or at [email protected].

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Sentencing set Aug. 11

Clark received his bachelor’s and mas-ter’s degrees in agriculture from The Ohio State University and administrative training from University of Dayton and Ashland University.

Clark will replace current superinten-dent Janice Wyckoff, who has accepted a job as superintendent at Clear Fork Val-ley Local Schools in Bellville.

Now that his daughters both have graduated from Madison Plains High School and are in college, Clark said he and his wife are able to pursue their goal to move back to the area and he has purchased a family farm near the Black River district.

Clark said he looks forward to fac-ing the challenges of melding the three communities that make up the district, reversing the trend of open enrollment out of the district and dealing with the district’s financial concerns.

To get there, Clark said he plans to prioritize “community involvement, being open to the public and making sure everybody understands the school dis-trict is there to serve the community.”

Clark said he took a pay cut to come to Black River, going from a salary of

about $104,000 to a $95,000 contract. “I didn’t go into this for the money,”

he said.From a pool of 23 applicants, Black

River’s board of education brought in six people for first interviews in May. The top three candidates were invited back to meet with three groups, including members of the school’s staff; athletic, academic and music boosters; and com-munity members.

From the community’s top two candi-dates, the board selected Clark.

“I think the community is really going to like him, and I think that’s a big plus, and that’s what we need right now,” board President Jody Weidrick said of Clark, who she described as fair and analytical.

Treasurer Connie Hange said Clark seems to be “extremely organized” and added that she does not believe he will take long to find his direction in the district.

“I see him being all business, and I don’t think that’s a bad thing,” Hange said. “I’m looking forward to working with him.”

Though Wyckoff’s contract was through July 31, Weidrick said the district hopes to have Clark start in his new role as early as July 1 to allow time to get acclimated before the start of the 2014-15 school year.


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Superintendent chosen from 23 applicants

Libyan charged with terror-related crimes

“It has something for everybody and people really like that.”

Chuck Charles, mayor of Ashland, Kentuckytalking about his city’s Summer Motion festival

Ashland, OregonPopulation: 20,713Demographics (in 2010): 90.3 percent white,

5.1 percent Hispanic/Latino, 1.1 percent black, 4.0 percent two or more races, 2.1 per-cent Asian, 0.9 per-cent American Indi-an or Alaska native, 0.3 percent Pacific islander; 53.9 per-cent female, 46.1 percent male; Per capita income: $30,007; Median household income: $43,305; Median age: 42.9

Distance from Ashland, Ohio: 2,430 milesOrigin of name: Abel Helman and Eber Emery,

both of Ashland County, Ohio, were among the founders of the Oregon city, which was settled in 1852 and originally called “Ashland Mills.”

Interesting fact: City council passed a ban on plastic bags, prohibiting retailers in the city from distributing them. Retailers can give shoppers paper bags at the cost of 10 cents per bag. Pur-pose of the ordinance is to minimize the number of single-use plastic bags, which are viewed as harmful to the environment, and to encourage residents to use reusable shopping bags.

Famous natives/residents: Actor Anthony Heald and former “Today Show” anchor Ann Curry

Leading industry: TourismTop employers: Southern Oregon University,

Asante Ashland Community Hospital and Ore-gon Shakespeare Festival

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Take local cultural staples like Chautauqua, Ashland Symphony Orchestra and

Guy C. Myers Memorial Band Shell and turn up the arts and culture to 11, and you’ll discover a town like Ashland, Oregon.

Located 14 miles north of the Oregon-California border along Interstate 5, Ashland is a cultural landmark of the nation’s arts that attracts 300,000 visitors each year and is home to more than 20,000

residents, sharing near the same population as Ashland, Ohio.

The Oregon city is nestled between two mountain ranges –– the Siskiyou Mountains, which run west to east from north-western California to southwest Oregon; and the Cascades, which run north from southern Oregon to Washington state and include Mount Rainier and Mount St. Helens.

Katharine Flanagan, director of marketing and sales at Ashland (Oregon) Chamber of Commerce

& Visitor Bureau, said Ashland grew as a town in the 1850s and beyond as a high-traveled route through the two mountain ranges.

“There used to be trade routes through Ashland, and it was the easiest way to get through the mountains for trappers,” Fla-nagan said. “These mountains, they’re a foundation of why Ashland is what it is.”

In 1887, the railroad connect-ing all of the West Coast was


Iraq’s focus is to defend BaghdadBy HAMZA HENDAWI and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRAAssociated Press

BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is ready to concede, at least temporarily, the loss of much of Iraq to Sunni insurgents and is instead deploying the military’s best-trained and equipped troops to defend Baghdad, Iraqi officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Shiite militias responding to a call to arms by Iraq’s top cleric also are focused on protecting the capital and Shiite shrines, while Kurdish fighters have grabbed a long-coveted oil-rich city outside their self-ruled territory, ostensibly to defend it from the al-Qaida breakaway group.

With each sect focused on self-interests, the situ-ation on the ground is increasingly looking like the fractured state the Americans have hoped to avoid.

“We are facing a new reality and a new Iraq,” the top Kurdish leader, Massoud Barzani, told U.S. Secre-tary of State John Kerry on Tuesday in Irbil, capital of the self-ruled Kurdish region in northern Iraq.

Two weeks after a series of disastrous battlefield setbacks in the north and west, al-Maliki is struggling to devise an effective strategy to repel the relentless advances by militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a well-trained and mobile force thought to have some 10,000 fighters inside Iraq. The response by government forces has so far been far short of a coun-teroffensive, restricted mostly to areas where Shiites are in danger of falling prey to the Sunni extremists or around a major Shiite shrine north of Baghdad.

These weaknesses were highlighted when the gov-ernment tried but failed to retake Tal Afar, a mixed Shiite-Sunni city of some 200,000 that sits strategi-cally near the Syrian border. The government claimed it had retaken parts of the city but the area remains under the control of the militants after a battle in which some 30 volunteers and troops were killed.

Government forces backed by helicopter gunships have fought for a week to defend Iraq’s largest oil refinery in Beiji, north of Baghdad, where a top military official

Oregon city is paradise for arts enthusiasts

Taft teacher releases first children’s book

Taft Primary School teacher BreAnn Fennell is a devoted mother and a firm believer in the power of play. So it was a natural fit for her to cast her son as the main character in her new children’s book about imagination.

The West Salem resi-dent teamed up with Tate Publishing to produce “Play? Yay!” which was released last week online and will soon, Fennell hopes, make its way onto shelves in local book-stores and classrooms and

into the hearts of kids and families.

The 28-page paperback depicts her 21⁄2-year-old son, Lucas, as he uses his imagination to play with everyday objects ranging from a cardboard box to a set of spoons.

This kind of simple play is crucial for child development, Fennell said.

“I think it’s so important for parents to get down and play with kids,” Fen-nell said. “What this book really shows is it doesn’t take a lot of money, it just takes the time.”


Flood watch lifted for Ashland County

Water rose in the south-ern part of Ashland County on Monday night as another storm hit the area.

A flash flood watch was expected to end at 4 a.m. today for Ashland County following more than 24 hours of scattered thunderstorms and rain.

According to the National Weather Service, southern Ashland County received up to 5 inches of rain, while northern parts of the county received about 3⁄4 of an inch overnight Monday through Tuesday afternoon.

The National Weather Service cautioned Ashland

County residents who live along rivers and creeks to stay alert and seek higher ground in case of a flood warning.

Black Fork of the Mohican River in Loudonville was mea-sured at about 4.7 feet Mon-day. By Tuesday, it was about 8.6 feet, just about a foot shy of the flood stage. The river last reached flood level of at least 10 feet in May.

In the last 30 days, Ashland County has received about 10 inches of rainfall, almost double what is normal for this time of year, according to the National Weather Service.

On Tuesday afternoon,

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The Siskiyou Violins play during the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Green Show in Ashland, Oregon. The city is home to a Shakespeare festival that runs February through November.


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Today: Showers and thunderstorms likely, main-ly before 10 a.m. Cloudy, high near 79.

Tonight: Partly cloudy, low around 60.

Thursday: Mostly sunny, high near 78. Low around 59.

Friday: Mostly sunny, high near 82. Low around 65.



Sunset today: 9:05 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow: 5:59 a.m.

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Showers

Illustration by Olivia Shores,Osborn Intermediate School

To facilitate play-based learning with her own son or with her students, Fen-nell provides the children with things to play with but doesn’t tell them what to do with the objects.

“You present more of an environment, but the kids lead the play,” she said. “Have them describe what they want to do.”

For example, she said, one day they may use a toy barn in a traditional way and the next day they may announce that the cows can fly. If you let kids follow their imagination, she said, they will grow to be think-

ers and problem solvers.Fennell began her book

about two years ago while teaching third grade at Dis-covery School in Mansfield.

“I was working with my third-grade class on devel-oping characters and using your imagination, and we kind of worked on the pro-cess together,” she said.

In October 2012, she submitted a draft to the publisher, which she had heard about from a success-ful author who visited Dis-covery School.

“Submitting a manu-script is kind of a scary thing,” Fennell said. “It’s taking a leap out of your comfort zone because there’s always that possibili-ty of being rejected. A lot of publishers won’t even look at unpublished authors.”

But Tate Publishing accepted the manuscript and paired Fennell with an illustrator who fit with her vision. The author sent in photos of her son as refer-

ence art and explained she wanted simple backgrounds to make the character stand out on the page.

After approving illus-trations and making edits, Fennell finally was ready for her June 17 release date.

“One of the coolest things for me was when I saw my book on Barnes and Noble and Amazon. That was a cool day,” Fennell said.

Friends, family mem-bers and co-workers pre-ordered the book and sales have continued at book signing events, as well as online. Fennell said she is working on marketing the book and is in talks with an area bookseller, which she believes will carry her book.

She is waiting with anticipation to see her first quarterly report that will tell her how many copies were sold in the first three months after the book’s release.

Meanwhile, Fennell enjoys reading her book with Lucas, who calls it

“mommy’s book” and likes to find the owls hidden on the book’s pages. His favor-ite page, she said, is the one with the illustration of him splashing in the bathtub.

Fennell said she has had a lifelong dream of writing a book and chose her son as the book’s subject so he could share in that dream.

“When he gets older, I hope this is a reminder for him to follow whatever dream he has,” Fennell said.

Fennell lives in West Salem with her husband, Bryan, and Lucas. She began at Taft as a first-grade teacher last year and will teach second grade next year. She is working on a manuscript for her second book, which she said is about a young inventor.

The author will sell and sign copies of her book 4 p.m. July 6 at Eva’s Treats.


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finished in Ashland, where the golden spike was driven into the ties.

Today, Oregon’s Ashland is a hub of outdoors and cultural activity, fea-turing hiking trails, skiing at Mount Ashland ski resort and a diverse group of wineries and restaurants.

“Our pillars are culture, culinary and the outdoors,” Flanagan said. “There’s been huge growth in enter-tainment. Tourism is the front door to the economy, what makes it tick. There’s a great quality of life and lifestyle here.”

Ashland is best known for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, a the-ater company that attracts about half of the city’s visitors each year during its 10-month season from February to November. The OSF has three theaters –– including an outdoor Elizabethan-style theater open in the summer months –– that play host to 11 productions a season.

Julie Cortez, public relations and social media associate with the OSF, said Ashland has embraced the themes of theater and culture even outside of the organization.

“If you walk around Ashland, there are signs up all over the place of busi-nesses named after Shakespeare’s works, like As You Store It and Puck’s

Donuts,” Cortez said. “Shakespeare is woven into Ashland as a daily thing.”

But the Oregon Shakespeare Fes-tival still is one of Ashland’s biggest tourist attractions, and has been since the first theater opened in 1935.

“We are a destination theater,” Cortez said. “We have a pretty fer-vent fan base locally but also people

travel here for this from miles away. It’s an escape, a theater escape.”

Ashland is located 1,800 feet above sea level, and boasts thriving businesses and health care services like Asante Ashland Community Hospital, not unlike Ashland’s busi-ness park and Samaritan Regional Health System in Ohio.

“We have tech companies that almost want to fly under the radar,” Flanagan said. “They quietly do their work, and what’s super unique is that we have a high broadband capacity, which makes us a great town to be a movie maker in.”

Ashland, Oregon, also is home to Southern Oregon University, a liberal arts college with an undergraduate enrollment of about 6,500 students. Emerging media and digital arts cur-rently is a popular major at the school.

The city’s average high tempera-ture is 88 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer months, and the average low is 29 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter. Ashland does not receive as much precipitation as the rest of Oregon, and typically receives less than 20 inches of rain and less than 10 inches of snow each year. On average, Ashland experiences 300 days of sunshine annually.


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the National Weather Ser-vice’s flood watch stated the heavy rain coupled with the already saturated ground produced a formu-la for flooding.

“The ground is saturat-ed in some areas and addi-tional heavy rain could run off and quickly lead to flooding,” it said.

The temperature for today is predicted to be a high of 79 degrees with a 60 percent chance of rainfall most likely before 10 a.m.

Elsewhere, parts of Ohio again are cleaning up after severe storms rolled through — including a tor-nado that touched down in northeast Ohio.

The National Weath-er Service confirmed a

high EF1 or EF2 tornado touched down Monday evening in Brunswick, about 30 miles south-west of Cleveland. Some homes were significantly damaged and are unin-habitable, but police said no one was hurt. Crews planned to finish assessing damage Tuesday.

A shelter was set up at the Brunswick Rec-reation Center for dis-placed residents.

Flooding from severe storms also was reported in Summit and Medina counties.

In central Ohio, downed trees and high water closed some roads early Tuesday, and scat-tered power outages were reported.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has plays and musi-cals almost year round in three separate theaters.

Tornado touched down near Brunswick Monday

said Tuesday that Sunni mil-itants were regrouping for another push to capture the sprawling facility.

In the face of militant advances that have virtually erased Iraq’s western border

with Syria and captured ter-ritory on the frontier with Jordan, al-Maliki’s focus has been the defense of Bagh-dad, a majority Shiite city of 7 million fraught with growing tension. The city’s Shiites fear they could be massacred if Islamic State fighters capture Baghdad.

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Ashland, Alabama’s courthouse was built in 1906 and is listed on the National Regis-ter of Historic Places.

Militant encourages Muslims to build stateBy RYAN LUCASAssociated Press

BAGHDAD — The leader of the extremist group that has overrun parts of Iraq and Syria has called on Muslims around the world to flock to territories under his control to fight and build an Islamic state.

In a recording posted online Tuesday, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared he wants to turn the enclave his fighters have carved out in the heart of the Middle East into a magnet for militants. He also presented himself as the leader of Islam worldwide, urging Mus-lims everywhere to rise up against oppression.

The audio message came two days after al-Bagh-dadi’s group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, unilaterally declared the establishment of an Islamic state, or caliphate, in the land it controls. It also pro-claimed al-Baghdadi the caliph, and demanded that all Muslims around the world pledge allegiance to him.

His group’s forceful seizure of territory and its grand pronouncement of a caliphate have trans-formed the Iraqi-born al-Baghdadi into one of the leading figures of the global jihadi movement, per-haps even eclipsing al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri.

The blitz across Iraq has pushed the death toll there to levels unseen since the worst sectarian bloodlet-ting in 2006 during the U.S. occupation. The United Nations said Tuesday that more than 2,400 Iraqis were killed last month. That tally would make June

A small-town Southern feel

Ashland, Alabama, resembles the epitome of a small, Southern town. With a pictur-esque town square and residents’ Southern

drawls as dominant as their friendly attitudes, the town dubbed itself “City of Friends.”

Ashland, Alabama, got the slogan “City of Friends” because of the unusually high number of volunteers that devote themselves to bettering the town. A county rescue squad was assembled of all volunteers, and Clay County, where Ashland is locat-ed, was named the volunteer county of Alabama.

“We pride ourselves in being unusually friend-ly,” Mayor Larry Fetner said. “We’re not nosy, just unusually friendly.”

Ashland, Ohio’s slogan, “Someplace Special,” came about in the early 1970s and is a little more

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Alabama’s Ashland known as ‘City of Friends’Ashland, Alabama

Population: 2,037Demographics (In 2010): 71.48 percent white, 24.10

percent black, 5.74 percent Hispanic/Latino, 2.03 percent other, 1.33 percent two or more races, 0.74 percent Asian alone and 0.34 percent American Indian and Alaskan Native alone.

Distance from Ashland, Ohio: 704 miles

Origin of name: Named after Henry Clay’s Kentucky estate

Interesting fact: Ashland’s city council at one point consisted of all women. Now there are four women and one man.

Famous natives/residents: Bob Riley, former governor of Alabama.

Leading industry: ManufacturingTop employers: Tru-Wood Cabinets, Welborn Cabi-

nets, Honda and Koch Foods

Area faces financial woes as state funding dwindles

Ashland City Council approved placing two 0.25 per-cent income tax levies on the November ballot at its Tuesday night meeting.

One of the levies is specifi-cally for road maintenance and repair and the other is for the general fund, which contains

departments like fire, police and the health department. The second 0.25 income tax, which is for streets, would be limited to five years.

Currently, the income tax rate is 1.5 percent and makes up the majority of the general fund revenue. The last time the income tax levy was increased was in 983. The new taxes

would generate about $1.2 mil-lion each.

The proposal for the two taxes comes as a response to the financial deficit the city is pre-dicted to experience in the next five years. According to the five-year forecast for the city’s bud-get compiled by Larry Paxton,


For most, proposed Savannah property tax levy is ‘no-brainer’

SAVANNAH — A largely positive response greeted the Savannah Village Council on Tuesday night regarding the idea of a property tax levy to offset a dwindling village general fund.

About 30 Savannah resi-dents and property owners gathered in the town hall, many of which were keen on main-taining the quality of life in the village.

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Police searching for missing teenAshland girl left home early Sunday morning

An Ashland mother is waiting to hear word on her 16-year-old daughter’s where-abouts after the girl went missing Sunday.

Anna Fisher has written Facebook posts and contacted a Cleveland TV sta-tion in order to locate her daughter, Kayleigh. Her disappearance around 3 a.m. Sunday was the second time in a week after her mother learned Kayleigh has been communicating with older men online.

Although the Ashland Police Depart-ment has categorized the case as a runaway, Anna Fisher is searching for any explana-tion for her daughter’s disappearance.

“She’s supposed to be starting post

secondary school, she’s a good kid,” Fisher said. “There’s no drugs, no alco-hol, she can’t even drive.”

APD Lt. Joel Icenhour said Tuesday that Kayleigh has been entered into the Law Enforcement Automat-ed Data System as a missing juvenile, but the department

believes she left home Sunday voluntarily. According to the police report filed Sunday, Kayleigh left her house on Overlook Drive in the middle of the night.

“This is her second time missing with-in a week,” Icenhour said. “We arrested a


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William C. Crothers is pictured in the presi-

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president. He replaced Fred Finks, who will

serve as the university’s chancellor. Crothers, a

Michigan native, served as president of Roberts

Wesleyan College in Rochester, New York,

from 1981 to 2002.

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of a mystery as to why it was chosen. Topper and Associ-ates, an advertising agency that existed at the time, was hired by Jack Myers to brand the city and it chose the slogan “Someplace Special,” which had been used by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Why the city chose it is not known, but it’s still being used today.

Like Ashland, Ohio, Ala-bama’s Ashland was named after Henry Clay’s estate home in 1871

and is the county seat of Clay County. Its county courthouse stands in Ashland’s town square and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1906 in the Italian Renaissance architectural style.

Despite its small size, the city has its own hospital, police force, fire department and senior center.

What longtime Ashland, Ala-bama, residents might remem-ber most about their town is the sports rivalry that existed between Ashland schools and

the neighboring town, Lima, for decades.

“It used to be a cuttin’ and a killin’ just about,” Fetner said.

Football remains a favorite sport in the town, although rival schools in Lima and Ashland have merged.

“Football is a religion in this town,” said Ray Stransell, a longtime reporter for The Clay Times-Journal, the newspaper in Ashland, Alabama.

Stransell has been a Times-Journal reporter for 40 years. The newspaper was established

in 1902 and still is independently owned.

Ashland’s main industry has evolved over the years since its founding but currently rests on the timber in Alabama’s forests fueling its cabinet production industry.

Tru-Wood Cabinets and Well-born Cabinets are located just outside of the city, as is Koch Foods, a chicken processing plant, and a Honda plant that together employ about 37 per-cent of Ashland residents.

The small-town atmosphere of Ashland, Alabama, translates

even to its government. Fetner usually can be found at Clay County Tire. He has owned the shop for 39 years and specializes in truck tire recapping.

Fetner said Ashland’s town square has been revitalized in recent years and was the loca-tion of his mayoral campaign launch. It also was the campaign launch location of Bob Riley, Alabama’s former governor, who is from Ashland.

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guy from Mansfield who had come to her house to pick her up (last week). She came back, put an ad on Facebook, and someone picked her up. It’s a run-away case, most definitely.”

Justin M. Emery, 31, of 627 Heritage Trail, Apt. D, Mansfield, appeared in Ashland Juvenile Court on Monday after charges of contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a child and interfer-ence with custody were filed Friday. He was arrested after he reportedly came to pick up Kayleigh and take her back to Mansfield.

Both charges are first-degree misde-meanors, which are heard in Juvenile Court when the victim is a juvenile.

According to the criminal complaint, Emery communicated with Kayleigh for about six weeks beginning May 15. No monetary bond was set in the case,

according to Juvenile Court administra-tive assistant Nancy Dyer.

Police currently are combing through Kayleigh’s laptop and cellphone search-ing for leads. In the meantime, her fam-ily can only wait for better news.

“I just want her back,” Anna Fisher said. “We don’t know who has her or anything.”

The sooner Kayleigh is found, the sooner the Ashland teenager can get back to what she loves.

“Her idea of a good time is tennis, trombone and track, and even writing,” Fisher said.

Kayleigh Fisher is 5 feet, 5 inches tall, weighs 134 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes. Anyone with infor-mation regarding Kayleigh’s where-abouts is instructed to call the Ashland Police Department at 419-289-3639.


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the deadliest month in Iraq since at least April 2005, when The Associated Press began tracking casualty figures there.

After melting away in the initial onslaught, Iraq’s military and security forces have regrouped and managed to stem the tide at the outskirts of Shiite-dominated regions. The country’s polit-ical leaders, however, have been unable to bridge their differences to confront the militant threat, and failed again in parliament Tuesday.

In his 19-minute address, al-Baghda-di said the Islamic state was a land for all Muslims regardless of nationality, telling them it “will return your dignity, might, rights and leadership.”

“It is a state where the Arab and non-Arab, the white man and black man, the easterner and westerner are all brothers,” he said, trying to broaden his base beyond the Middle East. “Muslims, rush to your state. Yes, it is your state. Rush, because Syria is not for the Syrians, and Iraq is not for the Iraqis. The Earth is Allah’s.”

To help build that state, he appealed to those with practical skills — schol-ars, judges, doctors, engineers, former soldiers and people with administrative expertise — to “answer the dire need of the Muslims for them.”

He also urged militants to escalate fighting in the holy month of Ramadan,

which began Sunday.“In this virtuous month or in any

other month, there is no deed better than jihad in the path of Allah, so take advantage of this opportunity and walk the path of your righteous predecessors,” he said. “So, to arms, to arms, soldiers of the Islamic state, fight, fight.”

In an appeal to Muslims worldwide, he said: “The time has come for you to free yourself from the shackles of weak-ness, and stand in the face of tyranny.”

The message was posted on militant websites where the group has issued statements before, and the voice resem-bled that on other recordings said to be by al-Baghdadi, who has rarely been pho-tographed or appeared in public.

Al-Baghdadi’s group has already attracted jihadi fighters from across the Arab world, the Caucasus and extrem-ists from Europe and some from the U.S. In a few short years, the organization has been transformed from an al-Qaida affiliate in Iraq into a transnational mili-tary force that has conquered and held a massive chunk of territory. Al-Qaida’s al-Zawahri expelled al-Baghdadi from the terrorist network earlier this year.

In the past year alone, al-Baghdadi’s group — which has changed its name to simply the Islamic State, dropping the reference to Iraq and the Levant — has managed to effectively erase the Syria-Iraq border and lay the foundations of its proto-state.

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Leaders unable to bridge differences

“To me, it’s a no-brain-er,” resident Mark Wis-newski told the council. “You all have been doing everything you can to keep the village going like it’s been. For a $100,000 home, to have your taxes go up something like 130 bucks a year — that’s $10 a month. That’s two meals from McDonald’s. Let’s do this, let’s move on.”

It’s time to “bite the bullet,” added Ashland resident and Savannah property owner David Samsel.

“State government isn’t going to come in,” said Samsel, who owns the Savannah post office building. “You’re not going to find grants anymore. When you come down to it, times change and you get stuck in these spots. I appreciate the council for getting this done.”

The response was encouraging for longtime Mayor Tom Kruse and the village council, who previ-ously had sent out letters to Savannah residents and canvassed village neighborhoods regarding the idea of a property tax levy.

“I’m honored to have such a great response (on) this issue,” Kruse said. “It was 100 percent posi-tive, and I’m relieved and impressed. It’s great to be

a part of a community that wants to maintain its qual-ity of life.”

Kruse and the council members are aiming for a property tax levy that would bring in an extra $14,000, hoping to put a major dent in the average $20,000 annual loss in the village’s general fund dat-ing back to 2011.

The next step is for the council to send along pro-posed rates to the county auditor, who would certify the amounts. The council could then put the proper-ty tax levy on November’s ballot.

Savannah has strug-gled right alongside other Ashland County villages since 2011, when the state government cut the local government fund in half.

Before 2011, Savan-nah’s general fund had hovered around $120,000. The account is currently about $44,000, and is on track to bottom out in two to three years.

Council members began the meeting Tuesday by outlining the various ways the village has saved money in the last few years, highlighting the heavy amount of volunteer work in town. Zoning inspector Dave Willis, Kruse pointed out, works entirely as a vol-unteer. Council member Doug Yoho volunteers to mow the grass by the sew-age lagoon.

On top of that, the

council pointed out vari-ous belt-tightening moves: a refinancing of the village sewer bonds that saved $220,000 and sale of ash trees from the village sew-age lagoon for $15,000.

“I can’t see anything we can cut unless someone has a better idea,” council member Sarah McBride said. “I love this town, I love the people. It’s like Mayberry. I hope we can come up with ways to sup-port what we need to raise money for our budget.”

“I want to stress the fact that we as a council do watch every penny,” coun-cil member Steve Brown added. “We would’ve been in this situation a lot soon-er had we not done some of the things we did.”

When the floor opened for questions, nearly every person in attendance said they understood the need for an increased property tax.

“I like my television,” resident Charlie Osborne said. “But if I had a choice to turn off the streetlights or take my television out, I’d say come get my tele-vision. Those streetlights are important. To me, it’s worth 10 bucks a month to keep the lights on.”

Savannah’s next village council meeting is July 8 at the town hall.

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finance director, by 2019 the budget is expected to be $6.5 million short of being balanced.

“The city unfortunately finds itself in the position to where the revenues are not keeping up with the expenditures of the gov-ernment,” Paxton said.

He also said either ser-vices will have to be cut or additional revenue will have to be added.

“Unfortunately, we have two choices at that time, either we consider what services we do offer to the community or find what revenue sources we could look toward and possibly expand upon so that we can continue to be providing services for our citizens,” Paxton said.

The ordinances to place the taxes on the ballot for the November general election were both passed as an emergency after council voted not to read the ordinances in full.

Councilwoman Sandra Tunnell voted no to the ordinances not being read in full and to their passing.

After she voted against the measures, council President Stephen Stuart questioned her.

“I am disappointed in the vote of one of our council persons,” he said. “I don’t know how you could serve on the council and not recognize the des-perate financial position we are in right now.”

Before the meeting ended, Stuart asked Tun-nel to explain why she voted the way she did.

“Councilperson Tun-

nell, I think you owe your fellow council members, the mayor, and the admin-istrative team an explana-tion for your vote this eve-ning,” Stuart said during the council’s comments portion of the meeting.

Tunnell said she voted no on all the procedural ordinances to suspend the three readings of the ordi-nance because it wasn’t fair notice to the public.

“I don’t think it’s fair for people to not be given an adequate opportu-nity to weigh in on their decision or our decision whether or not to pass the increases that were in the paper today,” she said. “We didn’t give anybody a chance to really even show up and I think they should have that opportunity.”

She said the reason she did not vote for the tax levy ordinances to be passed was because there could be other options to gain additional revenue.

“There are a lot of other options we could explore before we go to taxes. That should be the absolutely last option,” she said. “I understand that the administration does very well and tries to find money where it can, but I still think that there are other options.”

Mayor Glen Stewart said he would entertain any suggestions for other ways to gain revenue other than taxing.

“I would certainly entertain other options, because we need money yet this year,” he said.

The 2014 carry-over is expected to be about $7,400, which will not cover the beginning 2015

expenses that carry-over money is usually used for. For payroll alone, $350,000 is needed.

Stuart said he took issue with Tunnell, that she did not bring up her concerns at previous coun-cil meetings in advance of Tuesday’s public meeting. Council has not had a pub-lic meeting regarding alter-natives to a tax levy since discussions about the pro-jected deficit began.

David Yanchunas, a res-ident of Kingwood Drive, expressed his dissatisfac-tion at the meeting about council’s voting the tax levy ordinances through as an emergency.

“I am very disturbed by the number of emergency ordinances being passed by this council, specifically these two ordinances,” he said. “The idea of three separate hearings on three separate days is so you get some input, and you’ve just cut it all off. You’re gonna have to turn around and ask these people to vote on this and there’s a lot of unhappy people out there about this.”

“This financial train wreck, even I could tell this was coming attending council meetings,” he said. “All of a sudden this has to be done as an emergency ordinance, shame on you.”

Larry Paxton also con-ducted the first of several required budget hearings during the meeting. The cash balance of the 2015 budget at the end of the year is expected to be neg-ative $443,000.


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Ashland, MassachusettsPopulation: 16,593History of the name: Previously known as

Unionville before it was incorporated as Ashland in 1846 as a nod to Henry Clay’s Kentucky estate

Demographics (in 2010): 84.2 percent white, 8.8 percent Asian, 2.4 percent black, 4.5 percent Hispanic; median household income of $93,770; 4 percent of population below poverty line

Distance from Ashland, Ohio: 680 milesInteresting fact: Was the original starting

point for the Boston Marathon from 1897 to 1924; Marathon still runs through Ashland.

Interesting sites: Sri Lakshmi Temple, the larg-est Hindu temple in New England; Stone’s Public House, a popular inn from the 19th century that most locals will tell you is haunted; Ashland State Park and Hopkinton State Park, popular spots in the area for hiking, biking and boating

Nickname: Clock Town (Ashland High School sports teams are called the Clockers)

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Each year, the third-graders at David Mindess School in Ashland, Massachusetts (all 140 of them) dress as Native Americans and Pilgrims and present “The Mayflower: An American Epic.” The five-act play, complete with a 13-foot Mayflower, tells of the Pilgrims’ journey to America. It includes their initial decision to leave England, their 10 years in Holland, the journey on the Mayflower, the terrible first winter, and Samoset, Squanto and Massasoit’s efforts to help the Pilgrims learn the skills necessary to survive. It culminates with a feast of Thanksgiving complete with a perfectly roasted (though inflatable) turkey.

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Location, location, location.Ashland, Ohio, often is hailed for its prime

location about halfway between Cleveland and Columbus. A tourist stopping in Ashland can see the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame one day, then an Ohio

State football game the next.Call it prime positioning.That prime positioning also

can describe another Ashland about 700 miles to the northeast: Ashland, Massachusetts.

In the Bay State, Ashland is not only the mid-point between Massachusetts’ two largest cities (Boston and Worcester), but it’s within an hour of just about every state in New England.

Drive south, you’ll hit Rhode Island in 45 minutes. Southwest, you’ll hit Connecticut. North, New Hamp-shire. Vermont and Maine will take a bit longer, but we’re told those lobsters are almost certainly worth it.

Yep, Ashland is in prime position to begin a New England tour.

The 16,000-person town is located in Middlesex County, and has some claims to fame in being the original start of the Boston Marathon and home to the inventor of the electric clock.

“It’s a good, wholesome community,” longtime Ashland resident and former newspaper columnist Martin Shapiro said. “Good schools, good people. The administration of the town has always been good — not perfect, but good.”


Cleveland tops Dallas in bid to host RNC

By PHILIP ELLIOTT and STEVE PEOPLESAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — Cleveland won the unani-mous backing of a Republican National Committee panel Tuesday, all but guaranteeing the GOP’s 2016 presidential pick will accept the party’s nomination in perennially hard-fought Ohio.

The Republicans’ site selection committee backed Cleveland over donor-rich Dallas, and the full 168-member RNC is expected to ratify the choice next month. The move signals the role Ohio — and its 18 electoral votes— plays in presidential campaigns.

“As goes Ohio, so goes the presidential race,” said party Chairman Reince Priebus.

The RNC did not announce a start date for the convention but Priebus said that June 28 or July 18, 2016, are the two options under consideration. An earlier-than-normal convention was a priority for Priebus, and leaders of Dallas’ bid said the calendar was the main factor running against the Texas city.

“June is not an option for us,” said former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, who was involved in Dallas’ bid. “Reince really wants June.”

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Measles cases stabilizing in Ashland CountyBy CHELSEA SHART-G Staff Writer

Ashland County-City Health Department board members voted Tuesday to extend the public health emergency declaration due to the measles outbreak to Aug. 12.

Last month, the boards had voted to instill a public health emer-gency through July 8, but Jelayne Dray, health commissioner, said that since more cases still are pop-ping up, she suggested the board extend the emergency timeline.

Local Republicans excited about convention selectionT-G Staff Report

The Republican National Committee’s Site Selec-tion Committee announced at noon Tuesday that Cleveland is the recommended site for the next GOP National Convention in 2016.

Local party members are looking forward to the momentum the convention will generate in the state. Republican Central Committee member Bob DeSan-to went to the GOP convention in 1996 in San Diego as an alternate delegate. He said he hopes he gets to go again in 2016.


Larry Bays sits with his attorney, Tim Potts, as assis-tant prosecutor Paul Lange speaks at his hearing Tues-day in Common Pleas Court. Bays, owner of Loudonville Tobacco Shop, was granted a new trial by Judge Ronald P. Forsthoefel.

Larry Bays case set for retrial in January

Nearly a year and a half after receiving a three-year prison sentence, Loudonville Tobacco Shop owner Larry Bays will have his case retried.

On Tuesday, Bays and attorney Tim Potts present-ed their expert witness, Dr. Alfred E. Staubus, a faculty member of The Ohio State University School of Phar-macy, for an evidentiary hearing to determine the

bearing a second expert tes-timony would have on the case.

The Fifth District Court of Appeals overturned Bays’ conviction and sentence in October after Bays had spent eight months in prison, asserting Bays was denied the funds to hire an expert to testify about the chemical make-up of Bays’ product, which police claimed was synthetic marijuana.

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This house at 329 Pleasant St., adjacent to Marathon Park in Ashland, Massachusetts, is being eyed as a site for a Boston Marathon museum.

Shapiro, a retired engineer and edu-cator, used to write a weekly column for a local Ashland newspaper. He also was part of an economic development com-mittee in town.

“It was a blue-collar town for a long time, but it has become more and more affluent,” said Shapiro, who’s also a local justice of the peace. “But that’s a pretty recent development.”

The median household income of Ashland is $93,770, compared to $34,250 in Ohio’s Ashland.

It’s about the same size, geographi-cally, as Ashland, Ohio (12 square miles) and goes by “Clock Town” to most resi-dents. It’s a reference to Henry Warren’s invention of the synchronous electric clock there in 1918 — the first of its kind to keep time using oscillations of the electric power grid.

Electric clocks were manufactured in town by Telechron, which was bought out in 1943 by General Electric.

Drive into Ashland, and you’ll see a road sign with a runner that reads: “It all started here in 1897,” referring to the Boston Marathon start. The marathon’s starting line was in Ashland from 1897 to 1924, when it was moved to Hop-kinton (just southwest). The marathon route still runs through Ashland, though, right past its recognizable clock tower at

the intersection of Union and Chestnut streets.

Famed marathoner Bill Rodgers, known affectionately in the area as “Bos-ton Billy,” called Ashland one of his favorite spots for running.

“I like the roads there, and the hills,” the four-time Boston Marathon winner said in 2012. “But mostly I enjoy running in Ashland because of its unique histori-cal significance.”

Don’t feel like running 26.2 miles to Boston? Hop on the state’s commuter rail line that takes you right into the heart of Beantown.

Or hop in the car and head about a half-hour west to Worcester (pronounced just like Ohio’s Wooster, unless you’re feeling native enough to drop the R’s), the second-largest city in both Massachu-setts and New England.

Boston and Worcester have their share of famous spots and sights, but Ashland has its own bit of fun. It plays host to “Ashland Day” each year on the third Saturday of September. It’s a local celebration of “New England spirit,” according to the town’s website, includ-ing food, fireworks, carnival booths and rides.

“It’s a happy, busy day,” Shapiro said. “And the best part is all the people. You get to see all your neighbors, all your friends around town. It really is a great day.”

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Paying for the conven-tion was another consid-eration. The previous two GOP conventions sapped party dollars during elec-tion years, and Priebus insisted the host city not leave the central party picking up the tab.

Although Dallas had the edge on fundrais-ing as recently as last month, Cleveland nar-rowed that gap and lined up early pledges toward the expected $60 million price tag.

A successful conven-tion is a boon not just to the political party, but also to the local economy.

In a post-convention report, organizers of Tampa, Florida’s 2012 GOP convention said its $58 mil-lion in fundraising resulted in a $214 million direct economic impact. Some 50,000 activists, officials and reporters descended on the Tampa area for the con-vention, officials said.

“It provides us with an opportunity to showcase not only a great city, but a great state and a great mes-sage,” Ohio GOP chairman Matt Borges said.

Gone are the days when Cleveland’s pol-luted Cuyahoga River caught fire. The city, once dubbed “The Mistake by the Lake,” has undergone dramatic redevelopment in recent years — $4.5 bil-lion in projects have been completed in the past decade or are about to begin construction.

Its turnaround was a major part of Cleveland’s aggressive — and persua-sive — pitch to host the Republicans on the shores of Lake Erie.

“I’ve got to tell you: if you haven’t been to Cleveland lately, it’s a real surprise how beau-tiful it is down by that lake,” Priebus said on Fox News.

Ohio’s allure as a polit-ical prize proved tempt-ing. The last candidate to win the White House without Ohio was John F. Kennedy, a Democrat, in 1960.

During the 2012 presi-dential race, President Barack Obama and Repub-lican challenger Mitt Rom-ney made Ohio a central piece of their strategies.

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“I certainly hope I will be one of the ones chosen to go,” he said. “This is the first time I recall that the convention has been held in Ohio.”

DeSanto said he anticipates the con-vention will help strengthen the Republi-can Party, both nationally and locally.

“I think it was a strategically good decision,” he said. “It will energize the Republican party in Ohio and it will be a great benefit to Republican candidates. It will assist the national party politics

because Ohio is a swing state.”The panel’s recommendation will be

made final at the Republican National Committee meeting in early August after members have a chance to vote on it.

The decision for which city would host the convention was between Dallas and Cleveland.

Chris Tunnell, Ashland County pros-ecutor and chairman of the Republican Central Committee, was excited about the news.

“That’s outstanding. It will be a big boost for the region and Ohio and a big boost for the Republican Party,” he said.

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and assistant prosecutor Paul Lange argued about the scope of hearing and the decision before Common Pleas Court Judge Ronald P. Forsthoefel. A point of contention was whether Bays’ product was “substantially similar” chemically to a controlled substance. The two substances, AM-2201 and JWH-018, apparently appear similar when their compound structures are diagramed.

“All along through the appeal, the defendant has talked about two chemi-cal structures,” Lange said. “That’s the issue that was brought up in appeal.”

Potts disagreed, citing Staubus’ report that the substances had different weights and melting points.

“As it’s drawn on paper, it looks the same, but that doesn’t make them sub-stantially similar if they don’t react with each other,” Potts said. “There has to be an analysis of chemical structure, that goes beyond drawing out two dimen-sional stick structures. It clearly goes beyond that.”

Lange also referenced the state’s July 3 motion to keep Staubus from testify-ing in a retrial. Lange said Staubus had testified in previous cases elsewhere in the state that the scientific community cannot confirm the definition of “sub-stantially similar” in legal terms, thus invalidating Staubus as the defense’s expert witness.

“This would be confusing to the jury and that testimony would not be admis-

sible,” Lange said.Staubus then took the witness stand

during the hearing and was questioned by Lange about his previous testimo-ny, but when the assistant prosecutor asked Staubus if the lack of a scientific definition of “substantially similar” compounds could prevent him from giv-ing expert testimony, Staubus said he could, in fact, give an opinion that Bays’ substance and the controlled substance were not the same.

When Lange accused Staubus of cre-ating his own definition of “substantial-ly similar,” Forsthoefel cut him off.

“(The appeals court) said no it’s not a matter of chemical similarity, it’s sub-ject to subjective analysis and conclu-sion as to whether a substance is sub-stantially similar,” Forsthoefel said. “All I’m hearing in your cross examination, Mr. Lange, is affirmation of the point that people can have different opinions of what substantially similar means, and I’ve heard enough.”

Forsthoefel then set a trial date of Jan. 6, 2015.

“I think this argument needs to be made before a jury and then you can let the jury decide whose expert they believe and then take that out to the court of appeals,” the judge said. “I’m not in a position nor do I care to be in a position to try to pick and choose a nebulous definition and try to apply it, and that’s really the purview of the jury to make that determination.”


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Currently, there are 368 cases in Ohio through-out Ashland, Coschoc-ton, Crawford, Highland, Holmes, Knox, Richland, Stark and Wayne coun-ties. Ashland houses 46 of those cases, a number that seems to have stabilized.

“As for Ashland County, in recent days our situation seems to be more stable,” Dray said. “I hold on to the hope that we perhaps may be coming to the end of this public health emergency.”

Dray announced that the nursing division has admin-istered 449 doses of the measles, mumps and rubel-la vaccine during its 25 vac-cination clinics and still has 405 vaccines available.

There are two upcoming MMR vaccination clinics scheduled, one from noon to 2 p.m. July 14 at Mead-owview Amish School on Township Road 1353 and one 6 to 8 p.m. July 15 at Samaritan Hospital.

The outbreak is the largest the U.S. has seen in 20 years and originated with unvaccinated Amish travelers returning from the Philippines with the disease in late March.

Director of Nursing Shir-ley Bixby has been traveling door to door in Amish com-munities throughout the county since many Amish are not vaccinated for mea-sles, causing them to be the most susceptible to the fast-spreading viral respiratory disease.

Bixby and public health advisers sent to assist the local health department in the public health emer-gency focused their door-to-door efforts with the Amish in the northern part of Ashland County who were the most resistant to receiving the vaccine.

By reading a newspa-per called The Budget, an Amish and Mennonite paper distributed out of Sugarcreek, that named some infected with the dis-ease, Bixby and other pub-lic health officials tracked down those in Ashland County who were infected and informed them of quar-antine procedures.

Their list consisted of 350 families in the Amish community in Ashland, Lorain and Medina coun-ties, listing who had the disease and who has been vaccinated. Until now, Bixby said the health department did not have any type of list of families living in the old order, Swartzentruber Amish.

They also compiled the names of bishops to urge them to encourage their con-gregants to get vaccinated instead of solely relying on homeopathics, as many do.

Despite a low atten-dance to the vaccination clinics in those areas, Bixby said her advice to them to quarantine them-selves was heeded.

“At this point, they did consent that they will not be at church until the tests come back from the CDC,” she said. “It’s a very diffi-cult situation.”

Bixby said that in order to not expose anyone to the disease unnecessarily the Amish Health and Safe-ty day usually scheduled in August, it will be cancelled this year. Instead a smaller version of the event will be offered in October.

The total cost the health department has incurred because of the outbreak is $16,256.16, according to Dray’s announcement to the board, not including vaccine costs. More than $4,700 of this will be covered by overflow grant money from the state. The remaining approximately $11,000 has come out of the general fund. Dray said some of that money may be reimbursed by FEMA since the board declared the situation a pub-lic health emergency.

At clinics, the depart-ment has been asking for $10 per vaccine. Although the vaccines are provided by the state, the adminis-tration fees need to be cov-ered. The $16,000 incurred in the last 11 weeks includes extra wages, trav-el and supplies needed to administer the vaccines.

The Tuesday board meeting marked the first for Gayle Lantz, the new registrar/adminis-trative assistant. Previ-ously, Lantz worked as an administrative assistant at The College of Wooster.

“I’d like to extend a public ‘kudos’ to our new registrar, Gayle, for her quick acclimation to her new job duties,” Dray said. “She’s been very pleas-ant, kind and friendly in her approach and I’m very pleased that we have Gayle as part of our health department team.”

Dray also expressed thanks to the nursing divi-sion for their work with the outbreak and Ray Herbst, the public health and health education director, for orga-nizing the MRC efforts.


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City to extend waterline to business park

Several businesses will be receiving a better and more reliable water supply after City Council passed an ordinance allowing for another waterline to be extended to Ashland Busi-ness Park.

The Wells Road Waterline Extension Project was approved

at Tuesday’s council meeting, allowing Mayor Glen Stewart to begin to advertise and accept bids. The project is estimated to cost $200,000. The money for the project already is budgeted.

City Engineer Shane Krems-er said the added water line will ensure industrial expansion in that area can happen.

“The project is to develop

the business park in the future and give more adequate service to the existing businesses,” he said.

Barbasol is one of the busi-nesses in the district that Krem-ser said heavily depends on water. The way the waterline currently runs to the business, there is no backup water supply. However, the new waterline will

correct that problem. Stewart also informed coun-

cil Tuesday that the air condi-tioning system in the police divi-sion currently is broken, as of Monday. He said two compres-sors and some other equipment on the air conditioning units are broken. The units would cost


Prison food provider target of complaints

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINSAssociated Press

COLUMBUS — Maggots in food, staffing shortag-es and reports of running out of main and side dishes are among new complaints against the vendor that won the contract to feed Ohio inmates.

Reports obtained by The Associated Press through records requests found numerous problems reported since April, when the state took the rare step of fin-ing the vendor because of contract failures.

The records show 65 instances where Philadel-phia-based Aramark Correctional Services failed to provide food or ran out of it — usually the main course, such as hamburgers or chicken patties — while serving inmates, leading to delays and in some cases security concerns as inmates grew frustrated. Substitute items were provided in most cases.

On May 28, guards stopped breakfast “to preclude a mass demonstration” at Warren Correctional Insti-tution in southwest Ohio by inmates upset at being served only white bread and peanut butter after the supply truck apparently was late.

The records also show several days when Aramark employees simply failed to show up and cases of unauthorized relationships between inmates and Ara-mark workers. Reports allege sexual activity between some inmates and workers.

Records also show five reports of maggots since January in food or the preparation process. Last month, for example, an Aramark employee notified a prison guard at Trumbull Correctional Institution that “one of the two serving lines had maggots falling out of the warming tray.”

A report by the local health department called the incident isolated and said the Aramark supervisor fol-lowed necessary steps to ensure food safety.

At issue is a bigger national debate over privatizing prison services — from food preparation to the running of entire facilities — to save money at a time of squeezed state budgets. Proponents say private industry can often do the job more efficiently and more cheaply, unencum-bered by union and administrative rules, while opponents say a focus on the bottom line leads to cutting corners that creates danger for inmates and employees.

Aramark called the complaints “an ongoing politi-cal and media circus about anti-privatization” of pris-ons, saying it had never had such claims about its

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Small Nebraska city nestled between Lincoln and Omaha

The city of Ashland, Nebras-ka, has a history that should make people from the eastern United States run for their his-tory books.

The city was formed from a trading post and a village and was platted on hills overlook-ing a ford on Salt Creek. Wagon trains in the old days used that ford to cross the creek.

When people think of the American West, they think flat lands, mountains, creeks and Indian trading posts. Nebraska’s Ashland has some of that.

With a population of 2,453, some would call that a village. But Ashland, Nebraska, is a city, neatly positioned between Omaha and Lincoln.

This Ashland is a “tour-ist town, in some ways,” said Ashland Gazette editor Suzi Nelson.

Eugene T. Mahoney State Park is nearby. There are five golf courses, three art galleries, two wineries and the Strategic Air and Space Museum, she said.

The location of Ashland is a

benefit, because it has attracted some major businesses, Nelson said. Innovative Laboratory Sys-tems is located there. So is Lino-ma Software, which does busi-ness worldwide, Nelson added.

Not far away is the city of Greenwood, where fabulous chocolates are made. Baker’s Candies in Greenwood makes to-die-for chocolate meltaways, its company information states.

The company KZZO, which manufactures valves for agricul-tural enterprises and fire sup-pression systems, is in Ashland.

KZZO employs a large number

By LOUISE SWARTZWALDER T-G Staff Writer

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Some streets in downtown Ashland, Nebraska, main-tain their original red brick.

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On the campaign trail

Gov. John Kasich made a campaign stop Tuesday at Fin Feather Fur Outfitters to talk with local sportsmen, focusing on job growth and his “pro-gun” stance in a short speech.

Kasich acknowledged the Fin’s success in having four stores and its contribution to the economy.

“I think the reason it’s working is (their) expertise,” Kasich said.

Mike Goschinski, owner of the Fin, gave Kasich a tour of the store before the governor addressed the audience.

“He’s been pro-gun for us so he has been a good governor for Fin Feather and Fur; he believes what we believe in, being able to defend yourself and have the rights,” Goschinski said.

State Sen. Larry Obhof also spoke at the event and talked mostly about the job creation conservatives have been able to achieve throughout the last few years, but also spoke about Kasich’s views.

“There hasn’t been a governor that I can remember in my lifetime who has done more to promote the Sec-ond Amendment,” Obhof said.

Dave Dayne of Galion in Crawford County was one of about 75 people in the crowd and represented the Second Amendment Advocacy Group, a coalition of the Republican Party. He said he came to see what Kasich had to say about gun rights.

“I’m hoping he is here to support us,” Dayne said. In Kasich’s speech, he said he supports Ohio park

preservation and sportsmen throughout the state. “We are a pro-gun, hunting, sports people,” he said.

Before his stop in Ashland, Kasich talked to a com-bination of five Chamber of Commerce groups, includ-ing Ashland’s, in Bellville.

He highlighted the success he has had in re-establishing the rainy day fund from zero when he was elected and the job growth Ohio has seen during the last four years.

He referenced the creation of the JobsOhio program as one of the ways he has contributed to job growth.

He said with a better economy, government can focus on how to help people who are “in the shadows” of the system, including mentally ill and those who have drug addictions.

“When the economy is strong, you can do more for


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Fin Feather Fur Outfitters owner Mike Goschinski, right, leads Gov. John Kasich on a tour of the store Tuesday.

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Gov. John Kasich speaks to a group of supporters Tuesday during a visit to Fin Feather Fur Outfitters in Ashland.

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of people, Nelson said.Ashland, Nebraska,

has benefitted from an effort of the city 20 years ago to restore its downtown streetscape. Some of the original brick streets have been maintained that way. Old-fashioned street lights line shops where there are quaint looking enterprises.

Like many older towns, Ashland has a legend. The courthouse for Saunders County used to be located in Ashland. A group of leaders decided a num-ber of years ago the county seat should be located more centrally.

Ashland, Nebraska, is located on the far south-ern end of Saunders County.

The decision was made to move the county seat to Wahoo.

People in Ashland protested. The rumor spread that people from Wahoo came to Ashland to steal the courthouse records. Because they had the records, Wahoo people reasoned, the county seat should remain with them.

This means there is an ongoing conflict between people in Ashland and Wahoo. The history of the relocation of the county seat gets men-tioned frequently in con-versations, Nelson said.

A number of notable people are natives of Ashland, Nebraska. Clay-ton Anderson, an astro-naut in 2010, is from there. Chris Greene, a physicist, is a native. Jeff Raines, an execu-tive with Microsoft, has a home in Ashland,

although he officially lives in Seattle.

The idea a lot of peo-ple have about Nebraska, that it is a totally flat state, is wrong, Nelson said. She said the area around Scottsbluff, on the western edge of the state, is “very tall.”

Ashland is located along the Platte River. Though some of the area in Nebraska is flat, a lot is hilly.

But you couldn’t call it mountainous, Nelson said.

Ashland is unique, Nelson said, because it still has a small-town feel. Her newspaper is happy to have a storefront so people can stop in and volunteer their own ver-sion of news.

Nebraska’s Ashland has a motto that states it is “reflecting on the past preserving our vision for the future.”

Ashland, NebraskaPopulation: 2,453Demographics (in

2010): 98.76 percent white; 0.13 percent African Amer-ican; 0.27 Native Ameri-can; 0.40 Asian; 0.18 from other races; 0.27 from two or more races.

Distance from Ashland, Ohio: 806.9 miles

Origin of name: Ashland was named by a resident who was an admirer of Henry Clay. Ashland was the name Clay had given to his home in Kentucky.

Famous natives, resi-dents: Clayton Anderson, astronaut.

Top employers: Innova-tive Laboratory Systems, Linoma Software, Camp Ashland (Nebraska Army National Guard Training Center), and Trade Well Pallet.

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Tonight: A 20 percent chance of showers. Partly cloudy, low around 49.

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operations in more than 500 correctional facilities.

“We continue to make steady prog-ress in managing the operational issues,” spokeswoman Karen Cutler said in an email. “The number of issues continues to decline.”

Aramark’s $110 million deal to feed some 50,000 Ohio prisoners began in Sep-tember and runs through June 30, 2015.

The state fined the company $142,000 in April, saying it had failed to meet promised staffing levels, among other problems.

“Food service is a critical operation and we have made clear to Aramark our concerns,” said JoEllen Smith, spokes-woman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

It’s difficult to compare food ser-vice before and after Aramark since the agency didn’t track incidents internally before, she said. The state investigated occasional reports of maggots or food running short before Aramark, Smith said.

The agency is inspecting all prisons and asking local health departments for independent reviews at some, she said. Aramark also is having an outside com-pany review procedures, Smith said.

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people who live in the shadows who need to be given an opportunity to have a full life,” he said.

Kasich took questions from the audience of 244 business people and local politicians in Bellville. One audi-ence member asked if tax money will be coming from the state to help local governments pay for services they always have offered.

“Wait a minute, we are running a surplus, it’s a billion and a half and we are going to keep that surplus,” Kasich said.

He said local governments should change the way they offer services to better balance their budgets.

“We want local governments to be in the process of shared services,” he said. “Work with other people to try and not have duplicate services.”

Kasich said state Issue 1 will help with infrastructure repairs. Issue 1, passed by Ohio voters May 6, will

issue $1.875 billion in bonds to munici-palities, villages and townships state-wide throughout a 10-year period for infrastructure projects.

“Government at all levels needs to figure out how to tighten its belt and how to be more efficient and effective,” Kasich said. “A number of local gov-ernments are running surpluses way above where they were.”

Because of projected budget woes, Ashland City Council voted July 2 to put two 0.25 percent income tax issues on the November ballot. The estimated 2015 budget currently is short more than $443,000 in the gen-eral fund. The main departments this fund covers are police and fire.

The lack of revenue, partially due to cuts by the state in local government funds and estate taxes, contributes to the deficit.

Mayor Glen Stewart was at both locations Tuesday to hear Kasich speak.

“His comments about not raising taxes is very difficult for a community

that has had its funds slashed,” Stewart said. “We have cut funds and we have consolidated services.”

Stewart said part of the difficulty of decreasing funds coming from the state level was the speed at which it occurred, mainly in the past four years.

“It’s hard to plan into that,” he said.Toward the end of Kasich’s Bellville

talk, an audience member asked him about how he can help the lack of man-ufacturing jobs in the local area. Kasich urged locals to think about what the area has to offer in the job market.

“You have to have your economic development people look at what you have to offer that is really a positive thing to promote,” he said. “If you have a game plan about what you can get, the JobsOhio people will be up here tomorrow.”

Kasich is running for re-election in November against Democrat Ed FitzGerald.


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about $70,000 to replace, so Stewart recommended

replacing the 15 year-old compressors for about $20,000.

Council agreed and Stewart said the city will

move forward and order the parts today.

Several city charter changes were passed by council following a

required septennial char-ter review process done by a committee of non-coun-cil members throughout the course of four months.

Three of the six chang-es suggested by the com-mittee were approved Tuesday. All were minor changes or language changes to update the city’s law.

One of the changes was a word change from bank to financial institu-tion; another allowed the mayor to conduct contract changes without approval for up to $5,000 instead of $1,000.

A third allowed a substitute for the clerk of council to be a city employee.

Law Director Rick Wolfe said the other three suggested changes to the charter can be considered at any time.


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cent white, 8.8 percent Hispanic, 0.9 percent Native American, 0.5 percent Asian, 0 percent black; Per capita income (Clark County): $26,062; Medi-an household income (Clark County): $39,563

Distance from Ashland, Ohio: 1,087 miles

Where name came from: Ashland Town Company bought the land, origi-nally called Jack’s Ranch, in 1884 and named it for Ashland, Kentucky, the hometown of Captain J.B. Nipp, who was the father-in-law of town com-pany member I.K. Berry.

Interesting fact: The grass run-way at Ashland’s Harold Krier airport is used as the site of Great Planes Aerobatics camp, where pilots train and perfect their competitive flight skills and locals enjoy watching the action.

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With a population of 867, Ashland, Kansas, is the kind of place where “everyone knows everyone,” Mayor Kendal Kay said.

“It’s just a nice, clean, relax-ing small town,” Kay said. “People care, and you’re not just a number.”

Located in the red hills of southwest Kansas, Ashland is 50 miles south of Dodge City, which has the nearest Walmart. But for the residents of Ashland, that’s not necessar-ily a bad thing.

“We have everything you would need,” said chamber of commerce President Loree Krier.

The town has a restaurant, a diner, a pizza shop, two banks, a grocery store, a convenience store, a community center, a nine-hole golf course, a hospital and a school system. As a coun-ty seat, Ashland also is home to the Clark County courthouse and sheriff’s office.

“Ashland is like a forgotten town from the wild west,” Krier

said. “It’s located about 20 miles north of the Oklahoma border and about 100 west of Wichita. Ashland is about 50 miles from Dodge City and was close to the famous Sante Fe trail.”

Kay describes the town as small but active.

“You kind of have to have a reason to come to Ashland,” Kay said, because it’s not par-ticularly convenient to access.

Though Ashland doesn’t get a lot of visitors, it’s the slower pace that Ashlanders say makes their town special. The city brands itself as having “A Life-style Worth Sharing.”

Kay and Krier work together at Stockgrowers State Bank, where Kay is bank president. His father owns the town’s larg-est business, Ashland Feed and Seed.

It may come as no surprise, then, that agriculture is Ash-land’s leading industry.

“I think everything here revolves around agriculture, whether it be beef or wheat or alfalfa,” Krier said.


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Cattle roam near Ashland, Kansas, where ranching is an important part of the econo-my. Located in the red hills of Kansas, the Ashland area is known for its reddish dirt and rock formations.

Ashland, Kansas, small enough for everyone to know everyone

Callahan receives 30-year sentence


YOUNGSTOWN — Jordie Callahan will not spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted in an Ashland forced labor case.

U.S. District Judge Benita Y. Pear-son sentenced Callahan on Tuesday to an aggregate prison term of 30 years after he and co-defendant Jessica Hunt were found guilty by a federal jury in March of forced labor, acquiring a con-trolled substance by deception and conspiracy to commit crimes.

Callahan and Hunt were accused of holding a cognitively impaired woman, Shannon Eckley, and her 5-year-old daughter against their will in the couple’s Ashland apartment for a period of two years. During trial, the woman testified that the couple physically abused her and her daughter, kept them locked in an unfinished basement and denied them food, water and a toilet.

Pearson ordered that Callahan, 28, serve 360 months for the forced labor charge, 60 months for conspiracy and 48 months for acquiring a controlled substance by deception, and that the sentences be served concurrently. Callahan also will be subject to five years of supervision upon his release from prison.

Hunt is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday.Tuesday’s hearing lasted three hours, during

which federal prosecutors recommended life impris-onment for Callahan.

“What the defendant did was deprive (Eckley) of her basic human rights in this country,” lead prosecu-tor Chelsea Rice said. “He stole her right to live free-ly. He deprived her of her freedom, her worth, and at the end, of her own child.”

Rice said Callahan showed little respect for Eck-ley or her daughter by his treatment of them, which

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Airlines suspend flights to IsraelBy ARON HELLERAssociated Press

JERUSALEM — A Hamas rocket exploded Tuesday near Israel’s main airport, prompting a ban on all flights from the U.S. and many from Europe and Canada as aviation authorities responded to the shock of seeing a civilian jet-liner shot down over Ukraine.

Israel declared that Ben-Gurion Airport was safe and said there was no reason to “hand ter-ror a prize” by halting flights.

The rare flight ban came as Israel grappled with news that a soldier went missing after an attack in the Gaza Strip, raising the possibility he was abducted, a scenario that could compli-cate intense diplomatic efforts to end the two-week conflict.

Dueling rulings: Courts split on health lawSubsidies are point of contention in federal appeals decisions

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s health care law is snarled in another big legal battle, with two federal appeals courts issu-ing contradictory rulings on a key financing issue within hours of each other Tuesday.

But the split rulings don’t necessar-ily mean another trip to the Supreme Court for the Affordable Care Act.

And White House spokesman Josh Earnest immediately announced that millions of consumers will keep getting financial aid for their premi-ums — billions of dollars in all — as the administration appeals the one adverse decision.

In that first ruling, a divided three-judge panel in Washington called

into question the subsidies that help millions of low- and middle-income people afford their premiums, say-ing financial aid can be provided only in states that have set up their own insurance markets, or exchanges.

About 100 miles to the south in Rich-mond, Virginia, another appeals court panel unanimously came to the opposite conclusion, ruling that the Internal Rev-enue Service correctly interpreted the will of Congress when it issued regula-tions allowing health insurance tax cred-its for consumers in all 50 states.

Split appeals court decisions are a classic route to the Supreme Court. But in this situation, it’s far from clear what will happen because the administration still has a legal card to play.

Since the Washington case was decided by a three-judge panel, the administration will ask the full 11-mem-ber appeals court to hear the case. The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Dis-trict of Columbia Circuit has seven judges appointed by Democratic presi-dents, including four by Obama.

If the full court comes out in favor of the administration, the prospect of Supreme Court involvement would be greatly diminished. On the other hand, if the full Washington court stays out of it or, after a hearing, essentially leaves the panel’s decision in place, then the Supreme Court almost certainly would weigh in.

Democratic appointees also con-stitute a majority of the full appeals court in Richmond.

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A crowd of people wades in the water during the annual Lucky Duck Race in Ashland, Kansas. The Fourth of July event is a fundraiser for the Ashland Community Foundation.

Ranching is particu-larly important to the community, and Krier said ranches like Gardiner Angus Ranch are a huge asset to Ashland.

This week, Ashland is playing host to the Clark County Fair, where the rodeos are most popular.

Other important events for the city are annual country music fes-tival Southwest Country-fest, the WEPAC (Wilm-ore, Englewood, Protec-tion, Ashland & Coldwa-ter) women’s basketball game and Fourth of July festivities.

The small town mul-tiplies during Southwest Countryfest, which serves not only as entertainment but also as a fundraiser for the county rodeo and fair 4-H activities for youth.

With its slogan “We Pack the House,” WEPAC draws a large crowd to promote breast can-cer awareness and raise money for the WEPAC

Alliance to provide free mammograms for area women.

But July Fourth is the biggest day of the year in Ashland. Festivities begin at 6 a.m. with a 5K race and continue through-out the day with a chil-

dren’s turtle race and the “Lucky Duck Race,” for which local firefighters flood about three blocks of street to make a duck race course.

The day concludes with evening fireworks — that is, unless there is a burn ban because of drought.

“The drought has been really challenging for us,” Kay said. “The last three years or so have been difficult.”

Unlike what one might picture when imagining a Kansas landscape, the Ashland, Kansas, area has rolling hills and red-dish rock formations that make for a picturesque countryside.

About 15 minutes north of Ashland is Clark State Lake, which is non-recreational and devoted to fishing. Also nearby is Big Basin, a state park that features St. Jacob’s Well, a sinkhole so deep it’s said never to have gone dry.


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Uncle Sam on stilts delights audiences at the Fourth of July parade in Ashland, Kan-sas. Independence Day events draw crowds to the city each year.

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Palestinian militants have fired more than 2,000 rockets toward Israel since fighting began July 8, but most — includ-ing several heading toward Tel Aviv — fell harmlessly into open areas or were shot out of the sky by the “Iron Dome” defense system, keeping Israeli casualties low.

Tuesday’s rocket attack was the closest to the airport so far, said police spokes-woman Luba Samri, and largely destroyed a house, slightly injuring one Israeli in the nearby Tel Aviv suburb of Yehud.

Aviation authorities reacted swiftly. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration pro-hibited American airlines from flying to Tel

Aviv for 24 hours “due to the potentially hazardous situation created by the armed conflict in Israel and Gaza.” Later, the European Aviation Safety Agency issued an advisory to airlines saying it “strongly recommends” airlines avoid the airport.

Germany’s Lufthansa, Air France, Air Canada, Alitalia, Dutch KLM, Britain’s easyJet, Turkish Airlines and Greece’s Aegean Airlines were among those carri-ers canceling flights to Tel Aviv over safety concerns amid the increasing violence.

Israeli Transportation Minister Yis-rael Katz called on the U.S. aviation authority to reconsider, calling the flight ban “unnecessary” and saying Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system pro-vided cover for civil aviation.

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included making Eckley wear a dog collar and eat dog food, and pushing the woman’s face into her own excrement.

“It’s hard to imagine human beings can treat another human being in such demeaning ways,” Rice added.

Rice also referenced Cal-lahan’s long misdemeanor criminal history as a signi-fier of his continual aggres-sion, and rebuked Callahan for refusing to take respon-sibility in the case.

“The defendant has failed to have a single bit of remorse or concern for the victims,” she said. “He has continued to treat the victims as if they were the ones on trial, and deflect any responsibility to any-one other than himself and Hunt.”

Lastly, Rice said the case has had a profound effect on Eckley, who, when she was told of the jury verdict, asked Rice, “So this means they won’t be able to hurt anybody else in Ashland?”

Callahan’s attorney, Donald Butler, said there was evidence that Calla-han, Hunt and Eckley all abused prescription drugs, and drew comparisons between Eckley’s cognitive disabilities and Callahan’s bipolar disorder and learn-ing issues.

“My client has the same issues she has had,” Butler

said. “But it was woe is her, the heck with him.”

Butler added that Eck-ley voluntarily asked Cal-lahan and Hunt for a place to stay, and that her own troubles existed before she met the couple.

“To say everything stems from when she met Jordie and Jessica is ridic-ulous,” he said.

Butler also accused prosecutors of giving Cal-lahan an unfair plea deal with no room for nego-tiation, forcing Callahan’s hand to go to trial.

“My client always want-ed to resolve this matter,” Butler said. “The govern-ment made its offer, and that was the final offer and they weren’t going to negotiate. It forced us into a trial we never called for.”

When given a moment to speak before hearing his sentence, Callahan begged Pearson for a chance to turn his life around, including learning to read and getting his GED.

“If you permit me to be a proud member of my community, I will make the best of the time I know I’m going to get,” Callahan said. “Give me the chance. I’m not as bad as people

think I am, but I’m not the best either.

“There’s a lot of this I could have stopped, I don’t know why I didn’t. I’m sorry, give me a chance to show you I can do some-thing better.”

Pearson then spoke, telling Callahan that he took something very pre-cious from his victims.

“There are basic levels, ground levels, of decency that we have a right to expect from others,” the judge said. “You treated them as if they were less than human beings with-out feelings, without wants or needs at all, just to the benefit of yourself.”

The judge then remarked about the justice of a life sentence as Calla-han’s punishment.

“Life (in prison), it’s attractive, I won’t pretend that it’s not,” Pearson said. “The thought that I have the power to keep you from the rest of the world is something I would truly like to do.”

But Pearson said Cal-lahan’s mental state and evidence that he did not order others to abuse Eck-ley or her daughter slight-ly reduced his involvement when compared to Hunt.

“You were definitely a bad actor, but I believe you may not have risen to these offenses with-out connecting with Miss Hunt,” the judge said. “I hope within the time you spend in prison, you will improve yourself.”


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Prosecutor cites criminal history“Life (in prison), it’s attractive, I won’t pretend that it’s not. The thought that I have the power to keep you from the rest of the world is something I would truly like to do.”

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A trip to central New Hampshire will have travelers pass through a small river town with roots in manufacturing.

There, on the banks of the Squam River, is Ashland, New Hampshire, a town in the foothills

of the White Mountains with a little more than 2,000 residents that was incorporated in 1868. Ashland orig-inally was part of the nearby town

Holderness, but settlers continued southwest past Little Squam Lake and down the Squam River and constructed mills, which were attrac-tive cornerstones on which to build a town.

“It was sort of the village and the farmer going their separate ways,” said David Ruell, president of the Ashland (N.H.) Historical Society. “There are a number of towns around here that split up in the same way. The villages developed around the mills, which had different interests than the farmers.”

Using the Squam River, 18th and 19th century residents built sawmills, grist mills and even paper and cloth mills beginning in 1810. Produc-tion of woolen cloth in Ashland even continued until as recently as 2002.

“We’re a mill town,” Ruell said. “But it’s sort of been on a decline.”

Nowadays, Ashland gets a lot of tourist traf-fic along Interstate 93 and U.S. 3 to reach the lakes region. Between Ashland and Holderness is Little Squam Lake, which feeds into the much larger Squam Lake.

Ashland, New HampshirePopulation: 2,076Demographics (2010 census): 96.1 percent

white, 1.3 percent Asian, 0.9 percent Hispanic or Latino, 0.4 percent black, 0.2 percent American Indian or Alaska Native; Median age: 43.1; Per capita income: $21,421; Median household income: $40,213

Distance from Ashland, Ohio: 713 miles

Origin of name: Ashland started as a part of the nearby town of Holder-ness (est. 1771), which lies northeast of Ashland at the mouth of the Squam River and Squam Lake. Ashland, which was incorporated in 1868, is believed to have been named after Henry Clay’s estate in Ashland, Kentucky.

Interesting fact: Like most towns in New Hampshire and Vermont, Ashland is governed by a five-member board of selectmen. Town residents vote directly on most issues, including the town budget.

Most famous resident: Dr. George Hoyt Whipple, recipient of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work leading to the discovery of a cure for pernicious anemia.

Top employers: Rochester Shoe Tree Co. (shoe trees), Freudenberg-NOK (packing/automobile parts fabrication), Common Man (regional restaurant chain)




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By JULIE PACE and JOHN-THOR DAHLBURGAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — Spurred to action by the down-ing of the Malaysian airliner, the European Union approved dramatically tougher economic sanctions Tuesday against Russia, including an arms embargo and restrictions on state-owned banks. President Barack Obama swiftly followed with an expansion of U.S. penalties targeting key sectors of the Russian economy.

The coordinated sanctions were aimed at increas-ing pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his country’s support for separatists in eastern Ukraine whom the West blames for taking down the passenger jet nearly two weeks ago. Obama and U.S. allies also warned that Russia was building up troops and weaponry along its border with Ukraine.

“Today Russia is once again isolating itself from the international community, setting back decades of genuine progress,” Obama said. “It does not have to be this way. This a choice Russia and President Putin has made.”

Tuesday’s announcements followed an intense lobbying effort from Obama aimed at getting Euro-pean leaders to toughen their penalties on Russia and match earlier U.S. sanctions. Europe has a far stron-ger economic relationship with Russian than the U.S., but EU leaders have been reluctant to impose harsh penalties in part because of concern about a negative impact on their own economies.

However, Europe’s calculus shifted sharply after a surface-to-air missile brought down the passenger jet, killing nearly 300 people including more than 200 Europeans. Obama and his counterparts from

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Alex Ray rides an old-fashioned bicycle in Ashland, New Hampshire’s Fourth of July parade. Ray is the founder and owner of the Common Man family of restaurants, which began at a single location in Ashland in 1971, and has since grown into a statewide chain.

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Road work will close Ohio 60 next monthT-G Staff Report

A year after a portion of Ohio 60 was closed between Ashland and Loudonville for several months of summer, a second stretch of road will be closed for nearly all of next month.

According to the Ohio Department of Transportation’s District 3 website, Ohio 60 will be closed a quarter mile north of County Road 1754 for a culvert replace-ment starting Monday, Aug. 4. The road is expected to be closed for three full weeks and reopen Aug. 25.

In summer 2013, a 1.25-mile stretch of Ohio 60 south of Hayesville between Township Road 585 and County Road 2104 was closed from April 15 through the middle of August. The road had been closed for several months for embank-ment replacement and culvert replace-ment that upgraded the construction to a “long duration closure.”

Heavy rains and flooding last July also delayed the 2013 Ohio 60 project, which was compounded with a culvert replace-ment project on Ohio 511 in Green Town-ship, effectively limiting direct routes from Ashland to Loudonville.

Avalon Drive residents get parking relief

Avalon Drive street parking now is reduced by half after the street commit-tee accepted Mayor Glen Stewart’s rec-ommendation to make one lane of the road a fire lane.

Mayor Glen Stewart met with Ava-lon Drive residents about a month ago and came up with the compromise to make the north side of the road a fire lane with no parking and the opposite side of the road’s curbs painted yellow

where residents cannot park in accor-dance with the Ohio Revised Code.

Avalon Drive Homeowner’s Associa-tion had directed recurring complaints to the city about the road being blocked with parking overflow for Ashland High School sporting events.

Stewart brought his recommenda-tion to the traffic committee at its Tues-day morning meeting, and his recom-mendation was accepted.

“School events cause a lot of conges-tion there,” Stewart said.

Complaints have been ongoing from residents of Avalon Drive in regard to people parking on the street to walk to the Ashland High School stadium. Residents have said the street becomes clogged with vehicles and at times their driveways are inaccessible. The traffic committee also was concerned about emergency access to homes on Avalon.

The committee agreed to place signs on the north side of the road every 100


Cars will be banned from north side of street to relieve congestion

Israel hits symbols of Hamas rule; scores killed

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel unleashed its heaviest air and artil-lery assault of the Gaza war Tuesday, destroying key symbols of Hamas con-trol, shutting down the territory’s only power plant and leaving at least 128 Palestinians dead on the bloodiest day of the 22-day conflict.

Despite devastating blows that left the

packed territory’s 1.7 million people cut off from power and water and sent the overall death toll soaring past 1,200, Hamas’ shad-owy military leader remained defiant as he insisted that the Islamic militants would not cease fire until its demands are met.

The comments by Mohammed Deif in an audiotape broadcast on a Hamas satellite TV channel cast new doubt on international cease-fire efforts. Aides to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

said Egypt was trying to bring Israeli and Palestinian delegations together in Cairo for new talks in which Hamas would be presented this time as part of the Palestinian team.

Israel’s final objective in Gaza remained unclear a day after Prime Min-ister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Israe-lis to be prepared for a “prolonged” war.

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Ashland, New Hampshire, was founded on the banks of the Squam River and Little Squam Lake, which feed into the much larger Squam Lake to the town’s northeast. This one-lane wooden covered bridge was built in Ashland over the Squam River in 1990 in place of a steel and concrete bridge.

“We see more tourists in the summer and ski sea-sons,” Ruell said. “There are more tourists around the lake.”

Squam Lake was the main filming location of “On Golden Pond,” the 1981 film that won three Oscars, including Best Actor and Best Actress in a Leading Role for Henry Fonda and Katharine Hep-burn, respectively, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

In this respect, Ashland, New Hamp-shire, is similar to Ohio’s Ashland, which is a neigh-bor to Mansfield, where much of “The Shawshank Redemption” was filmed in 1993.

But while the city of Ashland and Ashland County contributed to and even appear in “Shaw-shank,” no scenes from “On Golden Pond” were shot in Ashland, New Hampshire.

“They’ve celebrated anniversaries of the film more in Holderness,” Ruell said. “I think there’s a story that Jane Fonda may have eaten pizza or something in Ashland, but that’s about it.”

Among Ashland’s nota-ble must-sees, a scenic one-lane wooden bridge passes over the Squam River. The bridge opened in 1990 after an old steel and con-crete bridge was removed from the location.

But instead of a pro-posed two-lane steel bridge, the Ashland com-

munity and the Squam River Covered Bridge Committee of the Ashland Historical Society raised $35,000 to fund the bridge project.

Ashland Historical Society Museum is housed in the Whipple House, named after Dr. George Hoyt Whipple. Whipple was born in the house and became a success-ful pathologist, earning a shared Nobel Prize of Medicine for his research into finding a cure for per-nicious anemia. Whipple donated the house to the town of Ashland in 1970.

Train enthusiasts also

will want to visit the Ashland Railroad Station, a restored passenger sta-tion originally built in the 1860s by the Boston, Con-cord & Montreal Railroad. The station was dedicated as a museum in 1999.

In general, the town is located ideally for outdoor activities like hiking, and according to Ruell, many visitors to the region come back and even move there.

“We do have people who retire here because of the area,” he added.


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Residents of the town of Ashland, New Hampshire, celebrate Independence Day with a parade through the town streets. New Hampshire’s Ashland is about one-tenth the size of Ashland, Ohio, with 2,076 residents recorded in 2010. Geographically, Ashland is located 3 miles west of the exact center of the state of New Hampshire.

When the 2014 Ohio 60 culvert replacement project begins next month, motorists will have to use U.S. 30 and Ohio 511 as a detour route.

At the same time, a portion of Ohio 511 north of Ashland will be closed for a cul-vert replacement between Ohio 302 and Township Road 754. The project is expect-ed to close the road Aug. 4 to Aug. 15.

The detour for the Ohio 511 closure will use U.S. 250, Ohio 60 and U.S. 224.

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feet. Jerry Mack, director of city ser-vices, said he usually is hesitant to place signs because he has received complaints in the past from people who wish the no parking sign was not right in front of their home.

“We have gotten complaints from peo-ple who don’t like the signs right in front of their living room window,” he said. “We try to place the signs so that they aren’t in front of people’s windows.”

Curbs on the south side of the road will be painted where there is no park-ing allowed, including within 18 inches of driveways and in front of fire hydrants.

Mack said although his department is short staffed, it will try to keep up with painting those curbs when needed.

Stewart said he thinks the no parking rule will prevent residents from being blocked in their driveways when the new middle school opens.

“I would presume that as the school opens this could prevent some future problems, as well,” Stewart said.

The committee also talked about con-cerns of people on motorized scooters traveling on the roadway. In previous meet-ings, a concern was brought up that people riding motorized scooters on the roadway are a potential danger to themselves and others if they are not visible.

Stewart said a letter will be sent to senior living facilities and senior centers suggesting they remind seniors to use a bicycle flag to increase their visibility.


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Britain, France, Germany and Italy finalized plans to announce the broader sanctions Monday in an unusual joint video con-ference.

European Union Presi-dent Herman Van Rom-puy and the president of the European Commis-sion, Jose Manuel Bar-roso, said the sanctions sent a “strong warning” that Russia’s destabiliza-tion of Ukraine cannot be tolerated.

“When the violence created spirals out of control and leads to the killing of almost 300 innocent civilians in their flight from the Nether-lands to Malaysia, the sit-uation requires urgent and determined response,” the two top EU officials said in a statement.

Despite the West’s escalation of its actions against Russia, Obama said the U.S. and Europe were not entering into a Soviet-style standoff with Russia.

“It’s not a new cold war,” he said in response to a reporter’s question.

Still, U.S. officials say sanctions already rippling through Russia are hav-ing a detrimental impact on the country’s economy. Russia’s growth projec-tions have been down-graded, and Obama said $100 billion in capital was already expected to flee Russia even before Tues-day’s joint U.S.-European announcements.

The sanctions, Obama said, “have made a weak Russian economy even weaker.”

Yet it remains uncertain whether the tougher penal-ties will have any impact on Russia’s actions in Ukraine — nor was it clear what other actions the U.S. and Europe were willing to take if the situations remains unchanged. U.S. officials said they believe economic pressure remains their most effective tool, and Obama reiterated his oppo-sition to sending lethal aid to the Ukrainian military.

The new European pen-alties a ban on the unap-proved sale to the Russians of technology that has dual military and civilian uses or is particularly sensitive, such as advanced equip-ment used in deep-sea and Arctic oil drilling. The EU also approved an arms embargo, though it would not restrict past agree-

ments, allowing France to go forward with the deliv-ery of two warships to Rus-sia, a deal that has been sharply criticized by the U.S. and Britain.

To restrict Russia’s access to Europe’s money markets, EU citizens and banks will be barred from purchasing certain bonds or stocks issued by state-owned Russian banks, according to EU officials.

The specific targets of the EU actions will be pub-lished Thursday, when they will take effect.

U.S. officials said they expected Europe’s list of targets to include some of the same energy com-panies, defense entities and financial institutions the Obama administra-tion hit with sanctions the day before the Malaysian airliner was shot out of the sky. The White House has been pressing Europe in recent days to bring its penalties in line with the U.S., both to increase the economic pressure on Moscow and present a united Western front.

As part of that effort, Obama also announced an expansion of the U.S. sanc-tions on Russian economic sectors. Among the targets were three major Russian banks: the Bank of Mos-cow, Russian Agricultural Bank and VTB Bank, Rus-sia’s second largest bank.

Administration officials said 30 percent of the Rus-sian banking sector’s assets were now targeted by U.S. sanctions. The main func-tion of the sanctions is to curtail the financial insti-tutions’ ability to access U.S. debt markets, not to block individual users from using their accounts or credit cards, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonym-ity because they were not authorized to discuss the sanctions by name.

Analysts said the effort was aimed at cutting off access to resources that these banks would need to support their own lending operations, an action that could weaken economic activity in Russia.

“This limits the abil-ity of these banks to do new business. That means the Russian economy will suffer because the banks will not be able to make as many loans,” said Sung Won Sohn, an economics professor at the Martin Smith School of Business at California State Univer-sity Channel Islands.

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Netanyahu is under pressure from hawkish members of his coalition to topple Hamas in an all-out offensive, but has not let on whether he plans to go beyond destroying Hamas rocket launchers, weapons depots and mili-tary tunnels used to infil-trate Israel and smuggle weapons.

Dozens of Israeli air-strikes and heavy tank shelling hit areas across Gaza, which was plunged into complete darkness Tuesday night after a strike on its sole power plant set a fuel tank ablaze.

In the sprawling Jebaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza, at least 24 people — 10 of them from the same family — were killed and dozens wounded in a barrage of tank fire, Hamas health officials said.

“Tanks were firing in all directions and shrap-nel was flying,” said Moussa al-Mabhouh, a volunteer for Gaza’s Civil Defense. “Smoke was ris-ing from houses and from nearby workshops.”

In one incident, shrapnel from a strike in Jebaliya hit near a car with U.N. markings, killing an employee of a U.N. aid agency and his brother, and wounding the man’s 12-year-old son, said agency spokes-man Adnan Abu Hasna.

The Israeli military has said it is targeting Hamas command centers, along with rocket launchers and weapons arsenals, but has not provided explanations when asked about spe-cific strikes in which many members of a single family were killed.

On Tuesday, multiple members of at least five families were pulled from the rubble after airstrikes and tank shells struck their homes, including the mayor of the Bureij refugee camp, his 70-year-old father and three rela-tives, according to Pales-tinian health officials.

In all, at least 1,229 Pal-estinians have been killed, including 128 on Tuesday, making it the single dead-liest day since the start of fighting on July 8, said Palestinian health official Ashraf al-Kidra. More than 7,000 have been wounded, he said.

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KABUL, Afghanistan — An American major general was shot to death Tuesday in one of the bloodiest insider attacks of the long Afghanistan war when a gunman dressed as an Afghan soldier turned on allied troops, wounding about 15 including a German general and two Afghan generals.

Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, who was on his first deployment to a war zone, was involved in preparing Afghan forces for the time when U.S.-coalition troops leave at the end of this year. An engineer by training, he was the deputy commanding general, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan.

Greene was the highest-ranked American officer killed in combat in the nation’s post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the highest-ranked officer killed in combat since 1970 in the Vietnam War.

Five major generals were killed in Viet-nam, the last Maj. Gen. John Albert Dillard, whose helicopter was shot down.

The attack at Marshal Fahim National Defense University underscored the ten-sions that persist as the U.S. combat role winds down in Afghanistan — and it wasn’t the only assault by an Afghan ally on coali-tion forces Tuesday. In eastern Paktia prov-ince, an Afghan police guard exchanged fire with NATO troops near the governor’s office, provincial police said. The guard was killed in the gunfight.

It wasn’t clear if the two incidents were linked, and police said they were investigating.

Early indications suggested the Afghan gunman who killed the American general was inside a building and fired indiscrimi-nately from a window at the people gath-ered outside, a U.S. official said. There was no indication Greene was specifically targeted, said the official who identified Greene. The official was not authorized to speak publicly by name about the incident and provided the information only on con-dition of anonymity.

Historic tracks

Twenty-two cities, towns and villages sprin-kled across the United States call themselves Ashland, many as a nod to the Kentucky

estate of famed politician and orator Henry Clay.But only one gets to call “The Great Pacificator”

its native son. That’s Ashland, Virginia. At the time of Clay’s birth April 12, 1777 (in the

thick of the American Revolution), present-day Ashland was a stretch of unincorporated forest and farmland in central Virginia. Clay, the son of a

preacher, lived in the area until he was admitted to the Virginia bar when he was 20 years old, beginning his storied career as a lawyer, statesman and charis-matic speaker.

He later settled down in Kentucky, naming his estate Ashland after the ash trees on the property. The rest — resulting in future Ashlands across the country — is history. Virginia’s Ashland (previously known as Slash Cottage) assumed the name once he died in 1855.

Presently, Ashland is a town not too unlike its Ohio counterpart. It’s the largest city in Hanover County. It’s a college town, home to Randolph-Macon College. It’s also a major artery in Virginia’s transpor-tation system, claiming the moniker “The Center of the Universe.”


Virginia rail town was Clay’s birthplace

ASHLAND, VIRGINIA

Population: 7,225History of the name: Named after the Ken-

tucky estate of native son Henry ClayNickname: “The Center of the Universe”Demographics (in 2010): 71.1 percent

white, 22.2 percent black, 4.7 percent Hispanic; median household income was $46,474; about 5.9 percent of population is below poverty line

Distance from Ashland, Ohio: 480 milesInteresting facts: The Ashland Volunteer

Fire Co., established in 1890, is one of the old-est all-volunteer fire departments in the coun-try; Ashland was named “Best Place to Raise your Kids” in Virginia by Bloomberg Business in 2009; Ashland was the site of one of the Belt-way sniper attacks, a series of shootings in and around the District of Columbia in 2002 that resulted in 10 deaths.

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The train station in downtown Ashland, Virginia, is a popular pilgrimage spot for rail-watchers. The town’s rail history dates to 1836, when the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Co. first laid tracks.

Ashland University Interim PresidentWilliam Crothers sits in the AU president’s office earlier this week.


Crothers optimistic about AU’s futureDespite the institution’s

financial challenges and chang-ing demographics in the higher education sector, Ashland Uni-versity Interim President Wil-liam Crothers is optimistic.

“Frankly, the challenges this school has can be fixed, and we’ve got several things in place now that can address them,” he said Monday, one month after assuming his new role.

Within the next year, Croth-ers expects the university to be

on track toward growth with a plan to cut the budget while maintaining top-performing pro-grams and to have a new leader in the office of president.

Crothers describes AU as “a fine school” with several strong academic programs, as well as “some real marks of distinc-tion,” namely the seminary and the Ashbrook Center. In addi-tion, he said, the “Accent on the Individual” seems to be truly adhered to at the university.


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Loudonville bicentennial celebration opens today

LOUDONVILLE — Loud-onville’s Central Park has begun to blossom with stages, office trailers and benches for visitors to use during the opening of the Loudonville bicentennial cel-ebration today.

The main opening event will be 6:30 p.m. when U.S. Rep.

Bob Gibbs, R-Lakeville, will give a welcoming speech. There also will be a special flag cer-emony, starting at 6 p.m., when American Legion Post 257 will present a flag to be flown only during the bicentennial. That flag will be given to Cleo Redd Fisher Museum, where it will be

By LOUISE SWARTZWALDER T-G Staff Writer

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ACCA now accepting 8th-graders

When Ashland County Com-munity Academy moved to its new location on Union Street a year ago, district leaders were pleased to have room to grow.

Now, the alternative school is expanding its services to include eighth-grade students in addition to grades nine through 12.

Students from Ashland

County and surrounding coun-ties entering eighth grade this fall who may not have been successful in traditional public schools or are looking for a new environment may apply now through the start of school Aug. 25.

“If we can reach the students at the younger age, they will be better prepared as high-school-ers,” superintendent Allen Wil-son said. “The research sup-

ports that the younger you get to them, the better their out-comes will be.”

Wilson has seen this first-hand in the Ohio Graduation Test scores of ACCA students last spring.

“Students that were with us two or more years are exceed-ing state averages,” he said. “Student that are just coming in test lower in literacy.”


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Wilson said he was surprised and pleased to see ACCA’s students taking the OGT in spring scoring 40 percent higher than average, but he attributes the success to the administration and staff’s efforts to ramp up curriculum and instruction and place an emphasis on literacy.

Wilson said the district never knows how many students to expect to enroll until school starts, but the school ended last year with 128 students.

The district is hoping to start small with about 10 to 12 eighth-grade students this year, which Wilson said will require

no additional staff. So far, ACCA has received two eighth-grade applications.

Eventually, Wilson said, he could see ACCA’s current building housing grades 6 through 12.

“We still want to keep with our mis-sion of a true community school, so we’re just looking at this as another step toward benefitting the communi-ty,” Wilson said.

The district has scheduled two open houses for prospective, new and returning students and their families 3 p.m. Aug. 20 and 6 p.m. Aug. 21 at the school, 716 Union St. For more infor-mation or to apply, contact the school at 419-903-0295 or visit www.acca.cs.k12.oh.us.

preserved for the future.Two other speakers

will be at the opening ceremony — Marilyn Byers, former Ashland County commissioner, and Loudonville Mayor Stewart Zody.

Music events will start this evening with the Kroc Center Big Band, Joyful Noise Trio and a barber-shop quartet.

The welcoming ice cream social will take place after that.

Bicentennial organiz-ers predict Loudonville’s streets will be full of visi-tors during the five-day event.

Thursday is farm and country celebration. Carson & Barnes Circus will make

two appearances at 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. that day.

On Friday, Phil Dirt and the Dozers will per-form in Central Park, and there will be numerous games.

Saturday is the parade, which now has about 100 floats or walking units, according to Shirley Reed-er, parade organizer.

On Saturday night, the vaudeville show, with Julie Ann Crookston portraying Mabel Berra, will be at Ohio Theatre at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday is closing day with open houses at churches.

Vintage baseball games will be Sunday afternoon behind the R.F. McMullen School building at 1:30 p.m.

“We have some outstanding faculty that are doing great things,” he said. “And for a little college, they have some great facilities here.”

Crothers cited construction of the school of nursing that opened in Mansfield in fall 2012 and the tuition reset effective this school year as exam-ples of bold steps AU has taken to posi-tion itself for the future.

In addition, he said, every college in the university now is offering some form of online instruction.

“I expect this university to continue to grow in spite of the demographic data on high school graduation rates; we just need to get a bigger share of the market,” he said.

As part of a yearlong comprehensive review and program prioritization proj-ect that began in May, committees of faculty, staff, administrators and trust-ees will analyze and prioritize programs and areas of the university’s operations to make recommendations.

The committees are tasked with dividing the budget into five ranking categories (enhance, maintain, review, restructure/discontinue, revisit) with 20 percent of the budget falling into each category.

The process is not intended to cut 20 percent from the budget but rather to establish priorities, Crothers said.

“If you don’t say we are going to put 20 percent into each category, every-thing will be ranked excellent,” Crothers said. “That’s an arbitrary force to cause these committees to seriously look at the operation of this institution. What we’re looking for in this process is what do we focus on to fund the really good pro-grams that have potential for growth.”

While a final report from the com-prehensive review won’t be made until next May, Crothers said, some changes may be made at the university before the process in complete.

The process the university’s board

of trustees chose to follow comes from Robert Dickeson’s book, “Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services,” and is similar to the process Crothers has used at other institutions, he said.

In 2012-13, he said, he successfully facilitated a “major re-engineering” at Judson University in Elgin, Illinois. In 2006-07, he played a similar role at Asbury University in Wilmore, Ken-tucky, which he said has grown from an enrollment of 1,200 to 1,700 since 2006. Roberts Wesleyan College, where Crothers was president from 1981 to 2002, faced similar challenges when he began there, Crothers said.

“From my point of view, this is not a big deal. It can be done,” he said. “It will not be easy and people will be affected, but this is a quality institution that will be here for decades to come.”

Crothers said he would like to see greater emphasis on and more funding directed toward marketing.

“I don’t think we invest enough money in telling our story, so we need to find the resources to do that,” he said.

In addition to traditional media out-lets and billboards, he said, the univer-sity needs to increase its social media presence, particularly through plat-forms young people are using.

The recently lowered sticker price, “Accent on the Individual” and high national ranking for value added growth from freshman to seniors are market-able strengths, he said.

Meanwhile, Crothers said enroll-ment projections for fall suggest tradi-tional first-year undergraduate student enrollment may be down slightly from last year, while transfer student, inter-national student and graduate student enrollment all are expected to be higher than last year.

It’s too soon to say whether overall enrollment will be higher or lower than last year’s, he said.


Transportation was vital to the town’s incep-tion, beginning when the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Co. laid tracks in 1836.

Clarke Bustard, a for-mer writer for the Rich-mond News-Dispatch, summed up its history most succinctly in 2007: “First, the train. Then, the resort. Finally, the town. That’s the short story of Ashland, a town that owes its existence to a railroad and whose character is still defined by the trains that run through its center.”

The resort, Slash Cot-tage Hotel, was built by RF&P. It was a popular spot that included a lavish hotel, ballroom, cottages, bath houses — even a bowling alley. In the early years of the Civil War, the Confederacy rented Slash Cottage Hotel as a train-ing ground for soldiers.

The resort grew so pop-ular that RF&P President Edwin Johnson began to sell parcels of the 420-acre stretch of land. Economic growth was stunted dur-ing the Civil War, but the area was revitalized when Randolph-Macon College bought the resort property and moved into town in the mid-1860s.

A pair of major north-south highways on the East Coast came through Ashland in the 20th cen-tury: U.S. 1 in 1928, then

Interstate 95 in the 1960s. But the trains continued to run, and still do today. The familiar sound and smell of those trains still permeate Ashland, local historian and author Rosanne Shalf said.

“My husband and I traveled across the coun-try by train,” Shalf said. “We looked for towns where the main street and all the business and houses faced the railroad. It usually didn’t happen — when it became unfash-ionable to live near the tracks, those parts of town fell into decay. That never happened here.”

Shalf authored “Ashland, Ashland: The Story of a Turn-Of-The-Century Rail-road Town,” which was published in 1994.

Ashland is a popular spot for train-watchers to pilgrimage to, Shalf said, and the town has various model train clubs. There’s also something more engrained in Ashland resi-

dents, Shalf noted, harken-ing back to the days when riding the train “was the civilized thing to do.” A lot of Ashland residents commute to work by train, and it’s not unusual for folks to take the train to New York City (about a 5-hour ride) for the week-end.

The 7,000-person town is an intimate community, she said.

“It’s walkable,” Shalf said. “And no one lives far-ther than two blocks from a millionaire or a person on welfare — it’s that inte-grated economically.”

The median house-hold income in Ashland is $46,474.

Randolph-Macon, a private liberal-arts col-lege, houses about 1,300 students on its Ashland campus.

The Ashland Volunteer Fire Co., established in 1890, is one of the oldest all-volunteer fire depart-ments in the country. Ashland also was named “Best Place to Raise your Kids” in Virginia by Bloom-berg Business in 2009.

Ashland was the site of one of the Beltway sniper attacks, a series of shoot-ings in and around the District of Columbia in 2002 that resulted in 10 deaths.

Visit www.ashland-museum.org to learn more about the history of Ashland, Virginia.

■ Joe Pelletier can be reached at 419-281-0581, ext. 259, or [email protected].

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Today: Partly sunny, high near 77. A chance of showers and thunder-storms.

Tonight: Mostly clear, low around 55.

Thursday: Sunny, high near 78. Low around 56.

Friday: Partly sunny, high near 79. Low around 58.

Saturday: Partly sunny, high near 82. Low around 63.



August precipitation: 0.65 inch

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TODAY’S SCHEDULE

Noon to 8 p.m. — Loudonville’s history of trains, Loudonville Public Library

Noon to 8 p.m. — Youth art dis-play, Loudonville Public Library

5 p.m. — DJ Solid Sound, Central Park Stage

5:30 to 6:30 p.m. and 7 to 7:30 p.m. — Kroc Center Big Band, Central Park Stage

6:30 p.m. — Opening ceremonies, Central Park Stage7 p.m. — Ice cream social, Central Park7:45 p.m. — Joyful Noise Trio, Central Park Stage8:45 p.m. — Late Edition Barbershop Quartet, Central

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Upper Black Fork is for extreme bushwhackersIt will never be crowded on

the upper Black Fork. In more than three decades of canoe-ing the Mohican River, I’ve met only a few paddlers hard-core enough to venture up there. None ever made a habit of it.

Most of the Black Fork’s 58-plus miles are upstream of Charles Mill Lake. Black Fork originates west of Mansfield, within a mile or so either way of the origins of Clear Fork and Rocky Fork. It flows north

through Shelby, turns east then wends its way south to Mifflin.

As mentioned in the last article, the 19-mile stretch from Charles Mill Dam to the Clear Fork confluence is conducive to day trips and overnight river excursions. However, Black Fork from its headwaters to Charles Mill Lake is in no dan-ger of becoming a haven for paddlers.

Black Fork starts out as an intermittent creek south of

U.S. 30 and west of Mansfield. A mere trickle of a stream — except after heavy rains — it snakes through a relatively flat landscape dotted with hills.

The folks in Shelby know all too well that this trickle can quickly swell into a raging tor-rent, turning their town into a muddy lake. If there’s such a thing as the “perfect flood” — the counterpart of the “perfect storm” — Shelby would be at Turn to EXTREME, Page A5

Hillsdale teachers have new contract

JEROMESVILLE — A three-year teachers’ union contract approved by the Hillsdale Local Schools board of education Tuesday includes no increase on the base salary but offers contin-ued step increases, as well as a new board pickup of 1.5 percent of employees’ share of retire-ment contributions for one year.

Included in the contract is a provision that both sides will meet again to negotiate salary and benefits only after the first year of the contract, which is effective July 1, 2014, through June 30, 2017.

Additional changes in the new contract, superintendent Steve Dickerson said, include increased accumulated sick days, a reduction in the sever-

ance package offered, minor lan-guage modifications and chang-es in compliance with the law.

Negotiators began meeting in April and finalized their agree-ment in early July.

“Overall, I felt it was a very positive experience, especially when you are negotiating with a group that took a hit of 11 staff members,” Dickerson said, referring to reductions in force

last year. He added the teachers also agreed to a pay cut in 2012.

Board member Jason Chio, who was part of the negotiation, said the 1.5 percent retirement contribution pickup was a con-cession the board was willing to make to get other things it wanted in the contract in light of recent cuts.


Kurdish fighters rescue YazidisBy DIAA HADID and BASSEM MROUEAssociated Press

MALIKIYA, Syria — In a dusty camp here, Iraqi refugees have new heroes: Syrian Kurdish fighters who battled militants to carve out an escape route for tens of thousands trapped on a mountaintop.

While the U.S. and Iraqi militaries struggle to aid the starving members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority with supply drops from the air, the Syrian Kurds took it on themselves to rescue them. The move underlined how they — like Iraqi Kurds — are using the region’s conflicts to establish their own rule.

For the past few days, fighters have been rescuing Yazidis from the mountain, transporting them into Syrian territory to give them first aid, food and water, and returning some to Iraq via a pontoon bridge.

The Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking minority who fol-low an ancient Mesopotamian faith, started to flee to the Sinjar mountain chain on Aug. 2, when militants from the extremist Islamic State group took over their nearby villages. The militants see them as her-etics worthy of death.

“The (Kurdish fighters) opened a path for us. If they had not, we would still be stranded on the moun-tain,” said Ismail Rashu, 22, in the Newroz camp in the Syrian Kurdish town of Malikiya some 20 miles (30 kilometers) from the Iraqi border. Families had filled the battered, dusty tents here and new arriv-als sat in the shade of rocks, sleeping on blue plastic sheets. Camp officials estimated that at least 2,000 families sought shelter there on Sunday evening.

Nearby, an exhausted woman rocked a baby to sleep. Another sobbed that she abandoned her elderly uncle in their village of Zouraba; he was too weak to walk, too heavy to carry.

Many said they hadn’t eaten for days on the moun-tain; their lips were cracked from dehydration and heat, their feet swollen and blackened from walking. Some elderly, disabled and young children were left behind. Others were still walking to where Syrian Kurds were rescuing them, they said.

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Ashland, Wisconsin, sits on the edge of Chequamegon Bay, where fishing, swimming and water sports are enjoyed all year.

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An outdoorsman’s dream

For a nature-loving outdoorsman, Ashland, Wisconsin, is a dreamland. The bay area of Lake Superior rubs up against the small city,

where tourist activity thrives year round. The former industrial town has changed in

recent years to be a recreational hub of outdoor activity.

In the winter, the city plays host to ski trails around the river that are lit at night by paper luminaires. In the summer, a qualifying race

for the Boston Marathon and triathlons are regular events that also bring in thousands of visitors.

The city of 8,130 people has a diverse economy, with its main employer being the hospital. The largest industrial employer is Bretting Manufactur-ing, a maker of paper and napkin folding machines.

In 1854, the city was founded when Martin Breezer and others decided the bay was perfect for shipping lumber, iron ore and brownstone. The city really gained traction when the railroad was


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Board of Health hears complaintsabout potential compost facilityBy CHELSEA SHART-G Staff Writer

About a dozen Polk resi-dents showed up at the Ashland County-City Health Department meeting Tuesday night. Most of them came with concerns about the possibility of a compost company coming to the village.

Among them were Polk

Wisconsin bay city has activities all year roundAshland, Wisconsin

Population: 8,130History of the name: The city got it’s

name from Henry Clay’s association with its postal service.

Nickname: “Lake Superior’s Hometown”

Demographics (in 2010): 87 percent white, .5 percent black, 7.5 percent American Indian and Alaska Native alone, .5 percent Asian alone, median household income $39,631, about 16 percent of the population lives at or below the poverty line

Distance from Ashland, Ohio: 759 milesInteresting fact: The area is well-known

for it’s supply of brownstone, which fueled its trade market through the late 1800s. The city hall building that still stands today is made entirely of brownstone.

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Mayor James “Mick” Goon, Kathy Goon, direc-tor of the Ashland Area Council for Economic Development and Elaine Tanner, Jackson Town-ship resident heading a group of residents who are against the Organicycle’s locating to the village.

Organicycle, a food and wood compost company of Cleveland, has submit-ted an application to the department of health and the EPA, as required by law, to locate in Polk. The village approved the con-ditional zoning permit allowing for a compost company to function there at a public zoning meeting July 14.

The conditional zon-ing permit was voted on by village council after an ordinance was read at council three separate times.

Some residents of the village and Jackson Town-ship voiced their concerns about the company’s potential location. Tan-ner submitted a paper to the department of health with those concerns. The list noted that community members are questioning the legality of the condi-

tional use zoning permit granted by the village.

It also listed concerns about garbage truck traf-fic, air quality, noise levels and rodents and coyotes being attracted to the area.

Cynthia Cornett, a Polk resident, said she plans to purchase her grandmoth-er’s house across from the proposed Organicycle plant and increased truck traffic on the road is her major concern.

“We moved to Polk because of the benefits of a small community,” she said. “I think the compost facility going in is going to shatter the dream of that small family feel that Polk has.”

She asked that an envi-ronmental study be done to determine the long-term effects of such a com-pany on the area, and for more time for villagers to process the potential of the company.

Health board member Jeff Hardman said Tues-day’s meeting was the first time he had heard of the company and its locating to Polk. Health Commis-sioner Jelayne Dray later said that Tuesday evening was the first time the board as a whole has heard anything on the topic.

Pat Donaldson, direc-

tor of Environmental Health, was at the meeting and said the company still is in the early stages of planning.

“It’s in the very forma-tive stages. I did sit in on a meeting a couple months ago and then received the plans submitted to me July 18,” she said.

She explained the pro-cedure is for the company to register with the EPA as it has done and then submit a license applica-tion to the Department of Health for review. Don-aldson said she is in the process of reviewing the application.

Dray encouraged some-one to make an appoint-ment for a full-fledged pre-sentation during a board of health meeting instead of being limited to five min-utes per person.

“I would certainly encourage if any of you would like to contact (Donaldson), if we could organize a meeting I would be very happy to do that. Again we need to be mind-ful that we are public health and that our concerns be public health concerns,” Dray said.

Kathy Goon said she would be more than happy for herself, Mick Goon, owners of the company

and the Department of Health to meet with any-one who has questions in a “calm fashion.”

In other business, the boards of health approved the hire of Lisa Burgess from a part-time nursing position to a 28-hour-a-week, regular part-time nursing position. With the change in position, her pay will increase from $16 per hour to $17.50 per hour.

Dray also announced that the public health emergency status asso-ciated with the measles outbreak that started in March officially has been lifted. There is one sus-pected case currently, but director of nursing Sherry Bixbey said the rest of the family has been vaccinated and the patient has been quarantined.

■■ Chelsea■ Shar■ can■ be■reached■ at■ 419-281-0581,■ext.■240,■or■at■[email protected].

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expanded through the area in the 1870s, making it a trade cen-ter for surrounding counties.

While the city still is a region-al center for trade, it is shifting focus to the recreation offered around Chequamegon Bay and calling itself an eco-municipality that concentrates on developing sustainable practices.

Part of this recent interest, according to Ashland Mayor Deb Lewis, is due to the influ-ence of Northland College in the city. The liberal arts school of about 600 students focuses on the environment and sustain-ability while nestled between two national parks and the larg-

est body of fresh water in the world.

A 1,500-square-foot furni-ture store has been turned into a food co-op and is a popular place for residents to purchase food that is organic and all natu-ral, a theme of growing impor-tance in Ashland.

At the edge of Lake Superior on Chequamegon Bay, Ashland provides a popular fishing and water sports location in the summer. Locals and tourists participate in the strongman competition, Sprint triathlon, Century Link Whistle Stop Mar-athon and the Little Minnow swim race for children.

What used to be a railroad crossing in town was paved into a hike and bike trail along the

bay. Lewis said although resi-dents were hesitant about the change 10 years ago, the trail is highly used today.

Lewis took office in April as the town’s first woman mayor. She said Ashland is a place where she and her husband chose to move.

“I love the small-town char-acter, it has a sense of place,” she said. “It’s easy to find your sense of identity here, knowing and being known by your neigh-bors.”

Lewis said that’s why the city’s motto is “Lake Superior’s Hometown.” She also described the city as one that attracts cre-ative people.

“There’s a lot of creativity here. People are drawn here for

the natural beauty,” she said. “Winters are long and hard but for those of us that stick it out, we get the trade off of living in a beautiful place.”

Lewis’ focus as mayor, she said, is to help revitalize down-town after the 2008 recession and the addition of a Walmart at the edge of town that hurt local business owners.

All the restaurants in Ashland are locally owned and offer their downtown area a unique feel. The downtown area is deco-rated with 13 murals portraying historical scenes, earning it the title “Historic Mural Capital of Wisconsin.”

Mary McPhetridge of the Chamber of Commerce said besides the downtown area,

there are several unique attrac-tions. A craft beer brewery called South Shore Brewery is housed in the city, as well as a hockey arena where Northland College’s team plays.

McPhetridge helps to plan the numerous activities at the bay and said there is something happening every weekend in the spring, summer and fall months. From cruises on the lake to senior sporting events to bird watching activities in May when birds migrate back to the area, she stays busy all year planning and coordinating events.

“There’s just always some-thing going on here,” she said.

■■ Chelsea■ Shar■ can■ be■ reached■at■ 419-281-0581,■ ext.■ 240,■ or■ at■[email protected].

DREAMContinued from Page A1

“We are thankful, from our heads to the sky, to the last day on earth,” said Naji Hassan, a Yazidi at the Tigris river border crossing, where thousands of rescued Yazidis were heading back into Iraq on Sunday.

The U.N. estimated around 50,000 Yazidis fled to the mountain. But by Sunday, Kurdish officials said at least 45,000 had crossed through the safe passage, leaving thousands more behind and suggesting the number of stranded was higher.

Syrian Kurds have carved out effec-tive self-rule in the northeastern corner of Syria where they make up the major-ity. But while members of the ethnic group in both Iraq and Syria pursue their destiny, the two communities are divided by political splits.

Iraq’s Kurds, who have managed a self-rule territory for over two decades, are dominated by factions that have built up strong ties with neighbor-ing Turkey. Syria’s Kurds, however, are closer to longtime Turkish Kurd-ish rebels and until the 2011 uprising against President Bashar Assad were firmly under his control.

Syrian Kurdish officials said soon after Yazidis fled their villages, they began fighting to create a safe passage. They clashed with Islamic State fight-ers upon entering Iraq, losing at least 9 fighters, but by Aug. 7 had secured a safe valley passage, cramming Yazi-dis into jeeps, trucks and cars to bring them some 25 miles away. Some of the ill were even rushed to hospital.

“We answered their cries for help. They were in danger and we opened a safe passage for them into safety,” said military official Omar Ali. “We saw

that we had to help them and protect them; they are Kurds and part of our nation.”

In saving Yazidis, Syrian Kurds also were demonstrating their own ambi-tions for independence as Syria’s civil war rages on.

They announced their autonomous area of Rojava in January, and rule sev-eral far northeastern Kurdish areas of Syria. Government forces stationed in the area were redeployed over two years ago to battle rebels seeking Assad’s overthrow, Syrian Kurdish offi-cials said.

But in entering Iraq, the Syr-ian fighters also are challenging their Iraqi Kurdish rivals. They say they entered after the Iraqi Kurdish fight-ing force, called the peshmerga, fled Yazidi villages after short battles with Islamic militants. The peshmerga say they were outgunned by the militants.

RESCUEContinued from Page A1

City located on Lake Superior’s Chequamegon Bay

U.N. believed 50,000 Yazidis were on mountain

Hillsdale Education Association’s chief nego-tiator, Tom Selvage, described the negotia-tions as “productive.”

“We had a lot of good discussions. Of course we didn’t get everything we wanted and they didn’t get everything they want-ed,” Selvage said.

Selvage said with renewal levies on the ballot in November and a joint insurance com-mittee being formed, union members thought it would be prudent to accept the 1.5 percent retirement system con-tribution pickup for one year and hold off for a year on salary and benefit negotiations.

The board also approved the hire of Car-men Greene on a one-year teaching contract as a mid-dle school language arts teacher.

At the superintendent’s recommendation, the board approved service agreements with the Ohio School Boards Association to update the district’s pol-icies, many of which Dick-erson said have not been updated since 1998.

Dickerson said the standard fee for the ser-vice is about $7,200, and additional costs will be incurred for meetings with OSBA regarding district-specific policies.

He added that not updating the policies could prove to be costly for the district if the outdated pol-icies resulted in a lawsuit.

Board members approved a recommenda-

tion to raise substitute teacher pay by $5 per day to a total of $70 to $80 per day, depending on num-ber of consecutive days worked on an assignment.

The board tabled a rec-ommendation to employ Danette Young as trea-surer’s office clerical help for $10 per hour up to 16 hours per week on an as-needed basis. The motion to table came from Vella King, who said as a matter of policy she would like to see the district post the job and conduct interviews if the board is going to hire someone for an ongoing position.

Young had been work-ing up to eight hours per week on an as-needed agreement set to expire Aug. 15, and the board moved to extend her employment one month as a temporary provision until the matter is revisited next month.

Dickerson reported to the board that two district buses will not be able to pass inspection and the board will need to adver-tise for bids for a new bus at the next regular meet-ing.

■■ Courtney■ Day■ can■ be■reached■ at■ 419-281-0581,■ext.■ 243,■ or■ [email protected].

TEACHERSContinued from Page A1

Board OKs agreement to update district policies

“Of course we didn’t get every-thing we wanted and they didn’t get everything they wanted.”

Tom SelvageHillsdale Education

Association contract negotiator

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Beheadingspurs new attacks on militants

By LARA JAKES and RYAN LUCASAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — The United States launched a new barrage of airstrikes against Islamic State extremists Wednesday and weighed sending more troops to Iraq as President Barack Obama vowed to be relentless in pursuit of the terrorist group that beheaded an American journalist and is holding other U.S. citizens hostage.

In brief but forceful remarks, Obama said the U.S. would “do what we must to protect our people,” but stopped short of promising to follow the Islamic State into its safe haven in Syria, where officials said Wednesday that Foley was killed. However, when pressed, the State Department refused to rule out future U.S. military operations in Syria, where Obama has long resisted intervening in a three-year civil war.

The Islamic State called Foley’s execution a revenge killing for U.S. airstrikes against militants in Iraq, and said other hostages would be slain if the attacks contin-ued. Undeterred, the U.S. conducted 14 additional strikes after a video of the beheading surfaced, bringing the num-ber of airstrikes to 84 since they began Aug. 8.

Foley’s mother said she is praying for other hos-tages being held by the Sunni-dominated terror group, and described her son’s slaying as “just evil.”

Obama agreed.“No just God would stand for what they did yester-

day, and for what they do every single day,” the president

OTHER ASHLANDS

Situated in the middle

An Ashland in another state is suffering from growing pains — it’s become a bedroom commu-

nity for people eager to be around the state university and capital,

which provide much in employment and education. This Ashland, 624 miles from Ashland, Ohio,

is in Missouri.Josh Karnowski, with the Ashland Chamber of

Commerce, said there is a good “quality of life” in his town, because it has one of the “state’s best school districts.” People live there and “commute to other” towns.

He said the population in Ashland, Missouri, will “double or triple” by the end of the decade. Now, there are more than 3,000 people living there, he said. There eventually will be about 12,000.

Bruce Wallace, the editor of the Boone County Journal, the local weekly newspaper, said some think of Ashland, Missouri, as a “commuter”

By LOUISE SWARTZWALDERT-G Staff Writer

Missouri’s Ashland has expectations of growingAshland, Missouri

Population: 3,812Demographics: 96.7 percent white, 0.08

percent African American, 0.03 percent native American, 0.5 percent Asian 0.4 percent other races, 1.5 percent His-panic or Latino.

Distance from Ashland, Ohio: 624.4 miles

Origin of name: Named after Henry Clay’s Kentucky estate.

Interesting fact: Ashland, Missouri, is growing rapidly because it is a bit of a bed-room community for neighboring Columbia and Jefferson City.

Famous natives/residents: Kate Capshaw, wife of Steven Spielberg, taught school for one year after going to school at the Univer-sity of Missouri.

Top employers: University of Missouri and government entities.

Submitted photo

Bicyclists travel the Katy Trail near Ashland, Missouri. The path through Katy Trail State Park was a rails-to-trails project.

Last of a Series

Clear Fork a draw for recreational touristsFor recreational opportuni-

ties, Clear Fork clearly rivals the rest of the Mohican River.

The lower Black Fork and main stream of the Mohican — officially recognized as the canoeing capital of Ohio — draw more visitors during tour-ist season. But, mile for mile, Clear Fork offers a wider variety of activities and attractions.

Meandering more than 36 miles from Ontario to Loudonville, Clear Fork boasts a reservoir, a lake, a

gold prospecting camp, hunting, trout fishing, two dams, two ghost towns, a morning glory spillway, a state park and lodge, paved bike path, campgrounds, a state forest and assorted landmarks. The latter includes the Mohican State Park covered bridge and Clear Fork Gorge Overlook, known for its spectacular view of the forest and river valley.

A shallow stream for the most part, Clear Fork also offers limit-ed — but very rewarding — pad-dling opportunities. This will be covered in a subsequent article.

Add to the list of the Clear Fork’s attractions a city park. Although that might be a bit of a stretch. Most people using Mar-shall Park in Ontario probably don’t realize that the rock-lined ditch running along Cal Miller Lane is Clear Fork of the Mohi-can River.

Clear Fork originates at the outlet of a small pond north of the park. However, the pond provides only a trickle of water, which doesn’t go anywhere until heavy rains fill a network of stream beds feeding the inter-mittent creek that is the begin-ning of Clear Fork.

By the time Clear Fork reaches Lexington Ontario Road, it’s no longer intermittent. It gradually grows wider and deeper, though Turn to TOURISTS, Page A6

Ashland,Missouri

Turn to MIDDLE, Page A8

Tuesday crash at 42-302 claims lives of 2 women

JACKSON TWP. –– A grandmother and grand-daughter are dead after a fatal accident Tuesday night at U.S. 42 and Ohio 302.

Autumn Meachem, 25, of West Salem and Loret-ta Meachem, 77, of Bel-levue died from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle

accident at the intersec-tion at 7:42 p.m. Tuesday. The Meachem women were two passengers in a minivan that was struck by a Mercedes C300 headed east on Ohio 302.

Ashland State Highway Patrol post commander Lt. Ray Durant confirmed


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Baun reflects on 15 years as the Loudonville High School cross country coach, Page B1

Deputies assist with recovery of stolen vehicles

Ashland County Sheriff’s Office impound lot is full after a weekend investigation that turned up 21 stolen vehicles.

Several deputies assisted in an investigation Saturday after-noon in the 500 block of Town-ship Road 2252, just north of Mohicanville, Chief Deputy Carl Richert confirmed Wednes-day. A total of 25 vehicles were

T-G Staff ReportRecovered stolen vehi-

cles from a Mohicanville property are

housed in theAshland CountySheriff’s Office

impound lot.

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Obama vows to pursue terror group after journalist slain

Turn to MILITANTS, Page A8

One in anOccasional Series

A8 THURSDAY AUGUST 21, 2014 From Page 1 ASHLAND TIMES-GAZETTE

Today’s WeaTher

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Today: Showers and thunderstorms likely. Most-ly cloudy, high near 82.

Tonight: Showers and thunderstorms likely. Most-ly cloudy, low around 68.

Friday: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, high near 85. Low around 68.

Saturday: A chance of showers and thunder-storms. Partly sunny, high near 86. Low around 68.

Sunday: A chance of showers and thunder-storms. Partly sunny, high near 86. Low around 67.

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Wednesday precipitation: 0.93 inches

August precipitation:2.61 inches

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Illustration by Laura Slabaugh,Osborn Intermediate School

town, but he thinks it stands on its own because it has “excellent schools, churches and volunteer organizations.”

In the area are several parks and areas used by people eager to get outside. One is the Katy Trail, now a Missouri state park, a rails-to-trails project in a rural area south of Columbia.

Karnowski is in the fitness business, and he capitalizes on peoples’ interest in being fit.

His business is difficult, he said, because it is seasonal. A lot of people do their own fitness reg-imens in the summer, then winter hits and they need places to go and things to do. He had been a high school soccer coach, and is interested in promoting “health food voices.”

Karnowski said there isn’t a lot of “infrastructure” in Ashland because it is a small town sitting

between Jefferson City, the capi-tal, and Columbia, where the Uni-versity of Missouri is located.

There was a fire that destroyed most of the commerce and business buildings in the downtown area — back when buildings were wood and clap-

board, according to Wallace.Karnowski said local devel-

opment councils are working on campaigns to get more busi-ness into Ashland. There is one pharmaceutical firm, Truphatek Inc., with a branch there. Its home office is in Israel. Because

Ashland, Missouri, is growing, the construction industry is doing very well. This of course means interest rates are going up: They’re in the “8s” now, Karnows-ki said. They had been in the low 7s, he said.

Josh Hawkins, who is the

town’s city administrator, said the story in his town is definitely its growth. He said it has “tripled in size” during the last 23 years. He said the town has 420 resi-dential lots ready to have struc-tures built

He said Ashland, Missouri, used to be a “rural farm town.” He said the University of Mis-souri is the “economic engine” of the area. It is 13 miles to Colum-bia and 15 to Jefferson City.

People who work in those two cities frequently choose to live in Ashland because they have an easy commute. Some people in the National Guard and other state government office holders also are residents, he said.

The area around Ashland is scenic, with parks like the one surrounding the Katy Trail. Peo-ple frequently take photographs of the surroundings in Ashland, Missouri, like the wildflowers that grow profusely, said Alan Helland of the Boone County Library.

MIDDLEContinued from Page A1

Town is just 15 miles from the state’s capital of Jefferson City

that Autumn Meachem died at the scene and Loretta Meachem died later at Samaritan Hospital. Only one fatality was confirmed Tuesday evening by Ashland troopers on the scene of the accident.

The Mercedes, driven by Srilatha Thadur, 37, of Ypsilanti, Michigan, failed to stop at the stop sign at Ohio 302, striking the 2003 Chrys-ler Town and Country minivan, which was headed south on U.S. 42.

The Mercedes struck the van in the passenger side, causing heavy damage, and both vehicles spun off into the east side of the road into a yard.

The driver of the van, Josh Moor,

35, and Autumn Meachem’s 4-year-old daughter also were injured in the crash and transported to Samaritan Hospital. The child has been trans-ferred to Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, according to Durant.

According to investigation by the Highway Patrol, Moor and the Meachem women all were not wear-ing seatbelts. The 4-year-old was in a child restraint booster seat.

The Highway Patrol also has ruled out alcohol as a factor in the crash. The accident remains under investigation.

The intersection is one of three in the area known as the “Polk Tri-angle,” which has become a notori-ous location for serious crashes.

Two fatalities occurred at U.S. 42 and Ohio 302 in 2012.

Tuesday’s two traffic fatalities were the fourth and fifth in less than two weeks in Ashland County. Brooke Lewis, 18, died after an acci-dent at U.S. 30 and County Road 2175 on Aug. 7. Her passenger, Cheyenne Spidel, 18, died Sunday, Aug. 17 from injuries sustained in the crash.

Then Wednesday, Aug. 13, 16-year-old Christianna Ringler was involved in an accident at U.S. 42 and County Road 995. Ringler died from her injuries the following Fri-day.


CRASHContinued from Page A1

towed from the lot, and 21 were confirmed stolen.

The Sheriff’s Office

joined an investigation led by the Ohio State Highway Patrol into the group of sto-len vehicles with links to Mansfield and Willard.

While Richert would

not identify the owner of the lot, he did say the Sheriff’s Office was aware of the property and had been “looking into” the owner, who had been oper-

ating a junkyard without a license.

One suspect, Eddie D. Tackett Jr., 24, of Willard has been charged with theft of a motor vehicle, which led to the discov-ery of the Ashland County lot, according to the State Highway Patrol and as reported by the Mansfield News Journal on Wednes-day. No other suspects have been charged.

The range of vehicles recovered vary in different states of condition. Some vehicles had cracked wind-shields and mirrors and were missing tires, while a few others appeared close to new.

It is believed this ring of stolen vehicles is con-nected to heroin, Richert said, as the vehicles were being scrapped to obtain money for the drug.

STOLENContinued from Page A1

One suspect has been charged in connection to thefts

Driver, van passengers not wearing seatbelts

Submitted photo

The Boone County Public Library is a focal point in Ashland, Missouri.

said. The Islamic State militants have promised to eliminate all people they consider heretics in their quest to create an extremist state across much of Iraq and Syria.

“We will be vigilant and we will be relentless,” Obama said, urging unity among Mideast govern-ments in order to eviscer-ate the extremist group’s growing power. He spoke from Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, where his family is vacationing.

Western nations also agreed to speed help to combat the militants — most notably Germany, which bucked public oppo-sition by announcing it would arm Iraqi Kurdish fighters to battle the Islam-ic State. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said he was outraged by the execution, deeming it evidence of a “caliphate of barbarism.” Italy’s defense minister said the coun-try hopes to contribute machine guns, ammuni-tion and anti-tank rockets.

Two U.S. officials said additional American troops — probably less than 300 — could be head-ed to Iraq to provide extra security around Baghdad, where the U.S. Embassy is located. That would bring the total number of Ameri-can forces in Iraq to well over 1,000, although offi-cials said no final decision had been made. The offi-cials spoke on condition

of anonymity because they were not authorized to dis-cuss the matter by name.

In capitals across the Middle East, by contrast, the news of Foley’s death was met with silence, even in Syria and Iraq — the two countries where the Islamic State is strongest. On social media, people in the region condemned Foley’s killing, but stressed that the Islamic State has been committing atrocities against Iraqis and Syrians for years.

For much of the past year, and until this sum-mer, the Obama adminis-tration was deeply divided on how much of a threat the Islamic State posed to Americans or even other nations beyond Iraq and Syria. But since the mili-tants’ march across north-ern Iraq in June, and as its ranks swelled almost threefold to an estimated 15,000 fighters, Obama has acknowledged that the Islamic State could become a direct threat to Americans.

Foley’s death proved to the West what many people in Syria and Iraq already knew: The Islam-ic State “has declared war on the civilized world,” said Dr. Najib Ghadibian, the Syrian National Coali-tion’s special representa-tive to the U.S.

The group’s sweep also has served as a wake-up call to other Mideast govern-ments, said Fawaz Gerges, director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics.

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