PEMBERVILLE — Pemberville is receiving $223,303 at 3.20% for 20 years for the construction of 2,500 feet of waterline.
The waterline is along Bierley Avenue and Water Street. It will eliminate dead ends in the southern portion of the village, according to a news release by the Ohio Water Development Authority.
The authority awarded $9.1 million through low interest loans to Ohio communities to improve wastewater and drinking water infrastructure and make water quality improvements. For the month of October, the authority funded nine projects that will provide improvements and replace aging infrastructure. The projects received an interest rate ranging from 1.32% to 3.66%.
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The State of Ohio created the OWDA to provide funding for construction of public water and wastewater infrastructure in Ohio. Since its creation in 1968, OWDA has pursued borrowing that assure the OWDA the lowest cost of funds in order to maintain low borrowing rates for the local governments of Ohio. These low borrowing rates allow local governments to construct necessary water and sewer improvements while minimizing the impact to user charges.
More information about OWDA’s financing programs is available at www.owda.org.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A satellite intended to improve weather forecasting and an experimental inflatable heat shield to protect spacecraft entering atmospheres were launched into space from California on Thursday.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 satellite and the NASA test payload lifted off at 1:49 a.m. from Vandenberg Space Force Base, northwest of Los Angeles.
Developed for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, JPSS-2 was placed into an orbit that circles the Earth from pole to pole, joining previously launched satellites in a system designed to improve weather forecasting and climate monitoring.
NASA said there was no immediate data confirming deployment of the satellite’s electricity-producing solar array, but late in the day the space agency announced that it was fully extended.
“The operations team will continue to evaluate an earlier solar array deployment issue, but at this time, the satellite is healthy and operating as expected. The team has resumed normal activities for the JPSS-2 mission,” a NASA statement said.
The array has five panels that were collapsed in an accordion fold for launch. The fully deployed array extends 30 feet (9.1 meters).
Mission officials say the satellite represents the latest technology and will increase precision of observations of the atmosphere, oceans and land.
After releasing the satellite, the rocket’s upper stage reignited to position the test payload for re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere and descent into the Pacific Ocean.
Called LOFTID, short for Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator, the device is an “aeroshell” that could be used to slow and protect heavy spacecraft descending into atmospheres, such as those of Mars or Venus, or payloads returning to Earth.
According to NASA, effectively slowing heavy spacecraft will require greater atmospheric drag than can be created by traditional rigid heat shields that fit within the shrouds that surround payloads aboard rockets.
The LOFTID shield inflates to about 20 feet (6 meters) in diameter.
In the thin atmosphere of Mars, for example, having such a large shield would begin slowing the vehicle at higher altitudes and reduce the intensity of heating, according to the space agency.
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Video showed the inflated heat shield separate from the rocket and descend toward Earth. A camera aboard a recovery vessel a few hundred miles east of Hawaii showed the it splash down under a parachute.
NASA said the shield was picked up by the boat, which then headed to recover a backup data module that was ejected during the descent.
A jury has found a Perrysburg man not guilty of gross sexual imposition.
Robert Flaugher, 39, was indicted in May for the charge after a grand jury determined there was enough evidence that from April 22-23, he allegedly had sexual contact with a 12-year-old.
He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in May.
Wood County Common Pleas Judge Matt Reger in October granted Flaugher’s request that the jury view his house where the alleged incident occurred. It was based on the argument that it was needed in light of the plaintiff’s statements about what occurred at the house and where.
Defense attorney Brian Morrissey also asked that the conclusion of an investigation by Lucas County Children’s Service and its improper vouching for the credibility of the witness not be entered as evidence by the state, as it usurps the function of the jury.
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Morrissey also requested a previous investigation of Flaugher, during which no charges were filed, not be presented by the state as evidence.
The jury determined on Nov. 4 that Flaugher was not guilty of the charge.