This Week in Citizen-Times History (September 16, 2025)

The September 16, 2004 edition of The Citizen-Times saw the announcement that local law enforcement engaged in a day-long marijuana eradication operation, being centered on at least four sites, having found additional caches of marijuana being grown throughout the county.

From the operation, a total of 136 marijuana plants, totalling a value of $500,000, were burned at the Allen County Transfer Station, after the additional sites were discovered by helicopter.

Additionally, following the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, outbreak of 2003, area farmers and FFA students received free instruction on “a variety of agricultural topics,” with one topic pertaining to a National Animal Identification System, or a NAIS.

The NAIS was discussed during the Allen County Agricultural Field Day on the previous Friday, being held at Tabor and Tabor Farms.

Additionally, the city council voted in favor of a slight property tax increase, following an assessment dispute with one area corporation and losses in “other assessments.”

Property assessments that year totaled around $184.9 million in the city, coming from commercial, industrial and residential properties, with the at the time new Smucker’s facility adding $18 million in assessments.

The Dollar General Corporation had appealed $16 million of its assessments, with the taxes being figured on the remaining account, before being settled, with personal property assessments dropping by $12 million that year.

The Citizen-Times, consolidated of The Citizen (1908) and Allen County Times (1890) on Oct. 10, 1918, has proudly served Scottsville and Allen County for 135 years.