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Gambling Charges Leveled

A Defi­ance Grand Jury has indicted three peo­ple who allegedly oper­ated an “ille­gal gam­bling house” at the North­towne Mall in Defi­ance, and in four other com­mu­ni­ties. 38 year old Mar­vin Dabish, 39 year old Robert Dabish, and 59 year old Nadia Dabish, all of Ore­gon, are now fac­ing more than …

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Robert Greek, 97

Robert Daso Greek, 97, of Montpelier, passed away on Thursday March 5, 2015 at Community Hospital and Wellness Center in Bryan. He was born on November 30, 1917 in Kunkle, Ohio to Ford and Mamie (Daso) Greek. On December 25, 1951 he married Mildred Briner and she preceded him in …

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Jane Clair, 58

Jane Marie Clair, 58, of Hicksville passed away Tuesday evening at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  She was born on December 28, 1956 in Montpelier to James M. and Wanda L. (Freeman) Snow.  Jane graduated from Montpelier High School in 1975, where she received her beautician’s license from Four County Joint …

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Jack Goshia, 86

John H. “Jack” Goshia, age 86, of Naples, Florida, and a longtime resident of Bryan, Ohio, died at 10:03 A.M. on Wednesday, March 4, 2015, at Avow Hospice in Naples, where he was a patient. Mr. Goshia was a 1947 graduate of Defiance, Ohio, High School and served in the …

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Changes In Scope Of Courthouse Renovations In Defiance

The improve­ments at the Defi­ance County cour­t­house will pro­ceed, how­ever they will now be done on a reduced scale, foll­wing a meet­ing that was held this week. The meet­ing of a com­mit­tee resulted in a vote, by a 5 to 2 mar­gin, not to pro­ceed with a full-scale ren­o­va­tion, which …

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A Sign Of Spring!!!

Well, here’s a sure sign of spring. A sign-up for a gar­den­ing plot in the Defi­ance Com­mu­nity Gar­den will be held on Wednes­day, March 18, at 9 a.m. and again at 7 p.m. that evening, at the county ser­vice garage, right behind the Defi­ance County Build­ing on East Sec­ond Street …

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Post Office Fire Disrupts Liberty Center

Fire­fight­ers rushed out Thurs­day morn­ing to a fire at the Lib­erty Cen­ter Post Office. The first call came in from a passerby just after 5am yes­ter­day, when that per­son said they saw a glow in the front win­dow of the build­ing on East Street. The fire was found in the …

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Truck Crash Near Defiance

The dri­ver of a trac­tor trailer is lucky fol­low­ing a crash Wednes­day morn­ing on US-24 west of Defi­ance. The dri­ver, whose name has not been released, was treated at ProMed­ica Defi­ance Regional Hos­pi­tal after his rig left the road­way just after 6am Wednes­day, trav­eled down a steep bank, into a …

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Williams County Sherrif’s Dept News

The Williams County Sherrifs Dept. arrested 31 year old Brandon GO-BULL of Edgerton Wednesday afternoon on a warrant on a Wms Co.grand jury indictment.Original charges were burglary and aggravated trafficking in drugs. Sheriff’s Department officials have remained rather tight lipped about the arrest, only saying that GoBull is in custody …

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2 Kittens Rescued

Two kittens are alive today thanks to the efforts of a kind-hearted stranger. It was late Tuesday night when someone called 911 to report that someone in a vehicle had just thrown the kittens out the window near County Road J and County Road 16, north of Bryan. The caller …

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