The State of Ohio is selling the building to the city, and when that is finalized, the St. Marys City Council will eventually approve their Community Improvement Corporation to put the over 100-year-old building on the market in the first part of 2023. The cost will be $210,000. The Ohio Nationals Guard moved out of St. Marys in 2020 and the building was in need of repairs then. The city will be looking for a buyer to take on the work needed to make it usable again.

The latest USDA crop report shows almost one-third of the soybeans and 15% of corn have been harvested across Ohio which is near the five-year average. The wet spring delayed some farmers from getting seed in the ground until June. We spoke to an area farmer who says his late-planted crops are not quite ready for harvest but is eager to get in that crop after not completing until January from last year's wet autumn.

Last week, the Ohio Supreme Court rejected the state Senate and House maps, saying the recently drawn maps were unconstitutional under the state's anti-gerrymandering rules. The supreme court orders say the seven-member commission has until the end of day on January 24th to redraw the maps. The Ohio Supreme Court also rejected the latest congressional map on Friday and has given state lawmakers 30 days to rework that map, and if they can't, the redistricting commission has another 30 days to create a map for the 15 congressional districts.