The Ful­ton County Sheriff’s Office has announced that they plan to con­duct a high vis­i­bil­ity traf­fic blitz in con­junc­tion with the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over national cam­paign. The blitz begins today and runs through Sept. 1. The sheriff’s office will be work­ing this blitz at var­i­ous times and …

The Defi­ance Fire Depart­ment is get­ting almost $10,000 in fed­eral grant money. $9,595 to be exact, accord­ing to U.S. Sen­a­tor Sher­rod Brown’s office. The money will be used for oper­a­tions and safety, and is being pro­vided through a grant by the U.S. Depart­ment of Home­land Security’s Fed­eral Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency …

What started out as an appar­ent big loss to the com­mu­nity, has instead, turned into some­thing very pos­i­tive. The trans­for­ma­tion of the for­mer Orchard Hills Coun­try Club is pretty much com­plete. A lit­tle more than a year ago, the for­mer pri­vate course re-opened as a pub­lic course, and the oper­a­tors …

Marlene J. Durham, age 81, of Wauseon passed away early Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at The Fulton Manor in Wauseon, OH. Marlene was born in Napoleon, OH on January 1, 1933 to the late Gale and Elma Harmon. On June 3, 1951 she married Donald L. Durham and he survives. …

Lana S. Hook, age 67, of Montpelier, passed away Tuesday evening, August 12, 2014, at the University of Toledo Medical Center, after a valiant seven-year battle with her health. Prior to her retirement she had worked at the former Ehrman’s Pet Store in Bryan and also at Powertrain in Bryan. …

Wauseon has been awarded $300,000 in grant money for a down­town revi­tal­iza­tion project. The Ful­ton County Com­mis­sion­ers were informed of the award in the com­mu­nity devel­op­ment block grant pro­gram. Prop­erty own­ers can now apply for funds to make upgrades to their build­ings in down­town Wauseon. Wauseon was cho­sen out of …

There’s a new dog in town… The Ful­ton County Sheriff’s Office now has a new K-9. The dog’s name is Mag­gie, and she is a 2-year old Ger­man shep­herd, who is being han­dled by Deputy Jeremy Simon. Fol­low­ing six weeks of ini­tial train­ing, Mag­gie began her duties with the Sheriff’s …

In Defi­ance, the pur­chase of a dump truck may now be put off for at least a year. The Cres­cent News reports that an ordi­nance allow­ing the pur­chase of a 2015 tan­dem axle cab and truck chas­sis, dump bed and assem­bly ser­vices was let lie at this week’s coun­cil meet­ing …

Repub­li­can U.S. Rep. Bob Latta will hold a pub­lic cyber­se­cu­rity sem­i­nar from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. next Tues­day at Defi­ance College’s Schomberg Audi­to­rium. The FBI and Cen­tra­Comm of Find­lay will also be par­tic­i­pat­ing. Sem­i­nar top­ics will include pro­tect­ing against online iden­tify theft and pre­vent­ing intel­lec­tual prop­erty theft, phish­ing, attacks …

Lela Mildred Sumner, 89, of Edon passed away early Tuesday morning at Evergreen Manor Nursing Home in Montpelier.  A Williams County resident her entire life, Mildred was born on July 27, 1925 in Brady Township to Virgil L. and Veree (White) Ridgway.  Mildred married Willard D. Sumner on October 16, 1944 and …