Officials at the Lucas County Engineer’s Office (LCEO) have been awarded a $653,200 Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) federal grant for the 2026 year.

Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced the award earlier this month as part of an overall nearly $1.3 million award to Northwest Ohio through Lucas County, the city of Toledo and Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments (TMACOG).

GREENVILLE — Darke County Engineer Jim Surber released his end-of-year report for 2025 and reported an increase in receipts and a decrease in spending.

Surber said, “We diligently attempt to balance our receipts and disbursements for the year but never know the final result until year’s end. For 2025, our total receipts increased $185,781.83 (2.4%), while spending decreased by $505,814.01 (6.4%), resulting in the annual receipts exceeding spending by $599,726.11. This was due to annual fuel tax receipts increasing by $404,859.60, from increased amounts in the year’s last three months, allocated to the counties by the state.”

WAPAKONETA - A $10.15 million Ohio Department of Transportation safety improvement project that will entail the installation of a single-lane roundabout at the northbound Interstate 75 to U.S. Route 33 ramp intersection has been fast-tracked, with construction likely to get started this summer.

"This is a big undertaking. It'll be the first roundabout in Auglaize County, and it's at the busiest and most dangerous intersection in the county," Auglaize County Engineer Andrew Baumer told The Daily Standard. "So it is going to be a big jump for local traffic here, but … I think long-term, it'll be a good solution."

The new Franklin-Trenton Road bridge is open roughly 10 months after a section of the bridge collapsed over Dry Run Creek between Franklin and West Middletown.

The bridge, which opened Christmas Eve, cost an estimated $975,000 with the Ohio Public Works Commission funding 50% of the emergency project, said Roy Henson, chief deputy engineer of the Warren County Engineer’s Office.

Greene County is eyeing safety improvements to a busy and dangerous Beavercreek Twp. intersection, near a high-growth area of the township where the school district had previously planned to build a new high school.

The Greene County Engineer’s Office, alongside the Ohio Department of Transportation, are seeking public comments on proposed safety improvements at the intersection of Indian Ripple Road and Factory Road, near the entrance to the Narrows Reserve.