Price tag for bridge branding jumps 20%

The price for putting “Wapakoneta” on the Bellefontaine Street bridge over Interstate 75 has gone up.

According to an email to Mary Ruck, the city’s engineering supervisor, from the Ohio Department of Transportation, the new price is $104,000.

As originally planned, the price tag for putting “City of Wapakoneta” was stated as $100,000. Dropping the “City of” lowered the cost to $81,000 … or so it was thought.