Some local lawyers will be hon­ored for their long ser­vice to the com­mu­nity at the Lun­cheon Meet­ing of the Ohio State Bar Asso­ci­a­tion Dis­trict 3 Lun­cheon at Father John’s Micro­brew­ery in Bryan. At the meet­ing on Sep­tem­ber 23 the pres­i­dent of the State Bar Asso­ci­a­tion will speak about issues fac­ing …

Many will be com­mem­o­rat­ing the events of 9/11 today with memo­r­ial events, and for the third year in a row Defi­ance will host the Tun­nel to Tow­ers 5K run and walk on Sat­ur­day. The Defi­ance race ben­e­fits the First Respon­der Char­ity Fund, which pro­vides fam­i­lies of first respon­ders with gas …

Vern L. Ruffer, age 94, of Archbold, passed away on Tuesday, September 9, 2014 at the Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice Center. Prior to his retirement he had been a farmer, a carpenter, and worked road construction. Vern was born near Archbold on November 2, 1919, the son of Amiel and Mary …

A man in Toledo will never hear the end of it after becom­ing a bad exam­ple of what can hap­pen while being dis­tracted by tex­ting. Gre­gory John­son was walk­ing along a street yes­ter­day and tex­ting when he fell into an open man­hole. He was minorly injured in his ten foot …

Defi­ance restau­rant owner Karl Kiss­ner con­tin­ues to enjoy noto­ri­ety two years after dis­cov­er­ing a trea­sure trove of base­ball cards in the attic of a home once owned by his grand­fa­ther. It was a pris­tine, never cir­cu­lated col­lec­tion of base­ball cards dis­trib­uted with candy at the turn of the last cen­tury …

The Williams County Com­mu­nity The­ater com­pany com­peted over Labor day at the Ohio Com­mu­nity The­ater Asso­ci­a­tion com­pe­ti­tion, and came away with some awards. For their pro­duc­tion called Proof, they got an Out­stand­ing in Ensem­ble Award. Loni Scott earned an Out­stand­ing Act­ing Award and Jeremy Scott picked up a Merit in …

The Ful­ton County Cour­t­house is get­ting a new coat of paint. Brian Broth­ers painters of Piqua landed the 58 thou­sand dol­lar job. They are paint­ing all the vents and the tower of the county cour­t­house in Wauseon. Last time the cour­t­house was painted was 20 years ago. Next project after …

There was some momen­tary anx­i­ety, but the dam­age turned out to be min­i­mal after fire­fight­ers were called Sun­day to a Defi­ance Col­lege dor­mi­tory on Web­ster Street where smoke was com­ing out of a room. The build­ing was evac­u­ated by the time fire­men arrived, and some­one inside who lived in the …

Record prices were paid this year at the Ful­ton County Fair at the junior fair live­stock sale. This is where buy­ers typ­i­cal pay well over mar­ket value as a dona­tion to the pro­gram and an incen­tive for the kids to con­tinue with rais­ing live­stock. Com­bined total sales for live­stock were …

Defi­ance County Com­mis­sion­ers will open bids tomor­row from con­trac­tors who want to ren­o­vate the Defi­ance cour­t­house. If the con­tract is awarded quickly, all the coun­try offices which inhabit the cour­t­house now, the Clerk of courts, the Pro­bate and juve­nile court and the com­mon pleas court, will move to tem­po­rary offices …