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		<title>Interim treasurer named</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 22:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Beathard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jane Beathard Staff Writer &#160; The Jonathan Alder Board of Education hired Aaron Johnson as interim treasurer during a special meeting on Friday. Johnson is the current treasurer of Fairbanks Local Schools in Union County. He will work five to 20 hours per week at Alder, beginning immediately. Johnson will receive $50 per hour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PCPD chief offers some levy options</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Treynor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rob Treynor Assistant Editor &#160; During the village council meeting held Monday, May 13, Police Chief James Hill offered council his ideas on how to staff the police force back at 2011 levels. Plain City reduced the number of officers last year, from eight to seven, due to budget shortfalls. A 0.5 percent income [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fireworks unlikely</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Treynor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rob Treynor Assistant Editor &#160; Will fireworks burst above Plain City this Independence Day? Probably not, according to Mayor Sandra Adkins, who spoke on the subject to village council on Monday night. Fireworks were among the many cuts made by council last year in order to deal with a budget shortfall. The mayor told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treasurer resigns; Alder facing cuts </title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 02:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Beathard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jane Beathard Staff Writer &#160; Janis Thom resigned as treasurer of the Jonathan Alder Local School District on Monday after Superintendent Gary Chapman and independent accountants found errors in her five-year financial forecast, including an overstatement of revenue. Those errors forced the district to begin cutting expenses immediately in order to avoid ending the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drug Take Back Day a big hit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 13:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fran Odyniec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Fran Odyniec For The Advocate   The Madison County Sheriff’s Office accepted approximately $20,000 worth of unused and expired medications at this past Saturday’s national “Drug Take-Back Day,” held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the office’s operations center at Elm Street and Garfield Avenue. “We are very satisfied with the results,” Sheriff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agape church robber charged  with  breaking probation terms</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 13:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Beathard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jane Beathard Staff Writer &#160; Kyle H. Koch, 21, 5419 Madison St., Hilliard, was charged with violating the terms of his probation for breaking and entering and theft convictions. Koch and co-defendant Jacob Heyder broke into Agape Church in Plain City on Aug. 20, 2011 to steal office equipment. As terms of their community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grassroots effort­ raises funds to re-open London pool</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 17:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Beathard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jane Beathard Staff Writer &#160; A widespread effort spearheaded by the London Community Organization raised more than $30,000 in five weeks to open the city’s municipal pool for the upcoming swim season. Steve Lelonek and other LCO members presented city officials with a $30,000 check on Tuesday to defray the cost of operating the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vaughn resigns, then appointed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Treynor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rob Treynor Assistant Editor &#160; In the middle of Monday night&#8217;s Plain City village council meeting, President Pro Tem Kevin Vaughn finished his report to the mayor by resigning from council, effective immediately. No one on council seemed surprised as the mayor immediately asked to go into executive session. When council re-convened, Mayor Adkins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Men guilty of dumping  into Little Darby</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Beathard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jane Beathard Staff Writer &#160; Madison County Wildlife Officer Matt Teders put his best detective skills to use in recent months, tracking down two Champaign County men who dumped truckloads of construction waste near Little Darby Creek — a national and state scenic river. Urbana residents Matthew Ratcliff, 46, 425 S. Main St., and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plain City hit with hefty information request</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Treynor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rob Treynor Assistant Editor &#160; Plain City resident John Rucker has filed a freedom of information request with the village of Plain City. Rucker is closely associated with the Plain City Safety Awareness Organization. The group’s primary, if not sole, objective is to reinstate the police officer who was laid off by the village [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dollar General store passes variance hurdle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Treynor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rob Treynor Assistant Editor &#160; It may not have been up to code, but it still passed. Jeff Paulson, an engineer working on the proposed Dollar General retail project, met with Plain City&#8217;s Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) on Wednesday evening to request five variances on the plans to transform the empty lot next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alder board approves Vineyard lease</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Beathard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jane Beathard &#160; A portion of the former Plain City Elementary School will soon be home to The Vineyard Church, following action by the Jonathan Alder Local Schools Board of Education on Monday, April 8. School board members authorized Superintendent Gary Chapman to finalize a one-year lease with the church’s Plain City congregation. That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preserving a Civil War treasure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Treynor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jerome Township Trustees, with the assistance of the residents of the township, descendants of the veterans named on the monument, and others who want to help save this historic treasure, are having the monument restored and relocated in a more safe location away from the intersection.]]></description>
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		<title>Village administrator Hilbert stepping down</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Treynor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["I have been approached and have accepted a position in the private sector," Hilbert told Plain City village council on Monday evening. "I am resigning."]]></description>
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		<title>Alder Jr. High students excel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean Shipley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Shipley Staff Writer &#160; Jonathan Alder Junior High students are making their mark outside the confines of their school on U.S. Route 42 and not just in one academic area. Their writing, geography knowledge and organizational skills have been lauded up to the state level. Three eighth grade girls and one seventh grade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fire claims one life in Jerome Township</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 13:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For The Advocate A structure fire was reported in the early morning hours of April 6th, 2013 in Jerome Township leaving 1 woman dead and 1 family displaced from their home. On Saturday April 6th, 2013 at approximately 6:12 A.M. a cellular 911 call was placed by a passerby to the Union County Sheriff’s Office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local angus breeder recognized nationally in annual Pathfinder report</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For The Plain City Advocate Select Sires Inc., Plain City, has been recognized nationally by the American Angus Association for having nine registered Angus bulls included in the Association’s 2013 Pathfinder report. Only 1,992 of the more than 25,000 American Angus Association members are represented in this year’s report, according to Bill Bowman, chief operating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Safety awareness group returns for round two</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Treynor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Rob Treynor &#160; Members of the Plain City Safety Awareness Organization (PCSAO) returned to another village council meeting on March 25 for round two of questions for the mayor and council members. Approximately 30 to 40 residents were shoehorned into the small council chambers. John Rucker, once again, was the main spokesperson for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Budget passes at last minute</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 02:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Treynor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rob Treynor Assistant Editor &#160; Plain City squeaked in under the wire, passing their 2013 appropriations just prior to the deadline of April 1. An emergency meeting was called for Friday night expressly to make a motion on the village’s budget. On Monday, before a motion could be taken to pass the village of Plain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Plain City pass a budget?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Treynor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rob Treynor Assistant Editor &#160; Before a motion could be taken to pass the village of Plain City’s 2013 budget, questions were asked by village council members. Doug Saxour had requested a breakdown of specific line items, in order to better understand their costs. While he had received information pertaining to those line items [...]]]></description>
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