Roger Stachler, a retired local contractor, dismantles a stove vent in one of the classrooms of the Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Middle School in Ottawa on Wednesday. Several groups and organizations from the local area have lent a hand in the clean-up efforts in northern Ohio.

OTTAWA - First came a ghastly stench of things rotting and then the sight of debris piled throughout the town. As a St. Henry school bus slowly snakes around police cars and dump trucks in downtown Ottawa on Wednesday morning, . . .