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 …

Minerva Aguilar, age 79, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 11:30 P.M. on Monday, August 11, 2014, at Genesis HealthCare-Bryan where she was a resident. Mrs. Aguilar was formerly employed by Bryan Canning Company, retiring with seventeen years of service. She was a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Bryan. …

John J. Florkowski, 64 years, of Bryan, passed away Monday, August 11, 2014 at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers, Bryan.  John was born December 1, 1949 in Toledo, the son of the late Chester and Leona (Rybka) Florkowski.  John was a 1967 graduate of Central Catholic High School in Toledo.  A Marine Corps …

The first ever “Hogs for Dogs” poker run to ben­e­fit the ani­mals at the Fort Defi­ance Humane Soci­ety is this Sat­ur­day at Napoleon Harley-Davidson. The run is open to all makes and mod­els of bikes, with reg­is­tra­tion set to start at 10 a.m., and the first bike out at 11 …

Some major enter­tain­ment is lined up for the Defi­ance County Fair in Hicksville. An open­ing day per­for­mance by leg­endary rock band Foghat will kick things off this year. You might remem­ber their hit… “Slow Ride“ Admis­sion to the 137th Defi­ance County Fair is $5 for adults and $3 for chil­dren …

Are you a cus­tomer of Farm­ers and Mer­chants State Bank? If so, you should be on the alert for a poten­tial scam, in which bank cus­tomers have been get­ting auto­mated phone calls, in which they are told that their debit or credit card accounts have been locked. The cus­tomer is …

A man from Bryan, among a group of four arrested on metham­phet­a­mine charges in drug last April near Hamil­ton was sen­tenced to 25 years behind bars Mon­day in Steuben Supe­rior Court. 34-year-old Joseph Cotrell, in a plea agree­ment, admit­ted to a felony charge of aid­ing in the man­u­fac­ture of meth. …