Article: Port authority to ask judge to decide which group can exist.

Byline: David Trinko

Nov. 19--LEIPSIC -- A judge likely will have the final say on which port authority can represent Putnam County communities after a vote Friday.

The Leipsic-Van Buren Port Authority board unanimously approved asking its legal counsel to file a declaratory judgment action to see whether its port authority, established in September 2001, has the right to exist and act as a port authority. The Putnam County commissioners voted Wednesday to appoint a three-member board for its 1987 port authority, which went 18 years without bylaws.

"I don't quite understand the commissioners," said William Dunbar, a councilor for Columbus Grove ...

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