County roundup: Edinburg needs funds and location for new fire station, plus Rootstown updates

Edinburg Township is still looking into building a new fire station. The township’s ideal location for it would be near where the current fire station is but closer to the intersection of state routes 14 and 18.

“It’s really in the preliminary stages,” township Vice Chair Chris Diehl said. “The preliminary pricing might depend on whether we have to buy more property or not. It’s going to cost $3-4 million to build this, and we don’t have that kind of excess money in our budget.

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