The Henry County Com­mis­sion­ers this week, approved a res­o­lu­tion to place a levy on the bal­lot to pro­vide finan­cial sup­port for Coun­tryview Haven. It’s a 1.6 mill levy, cov­er­ing the next three years, which they say will pro­vide fund­ing for main­tain­ing and oper­at­ing the county home in Henry County. Also …

Williams County is work­ing on a new instant alert sys­tem, designed to get emer­gency infor­ma­tion out to peo­ple faster and more effi­ciently. It’s being called Alert86.com, but don’t let the name fool you. It’s far from just another web­site. Soon, it will be vis­i­ble every­where, and it will have it’s …

Wauseon Police arrested 24 year old Kyle Stipp of Arch­bold Tues­day and charged him with first-degree aggra­vated rob­bery in con­nec­tion with a holdup at the Con­ti­nen­tal Drive Thru Carry Out in Waseon. Police say Stipp used a gun in the rob­bery, and made off with some cash in the rob­bery …

Defi­ance police have arrested a woman in con­nec­tion with a shoot­ing that hap­pened on Tues­day. 44 year old Pauletta Sali­nas of Defi­ance is now charged with felo­nious assault and is being held at the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio. Her ini­tial appear­ance in Defi­ance Munic­i­pal Court is set for tomor­row …

Bryan Police nabbed a local woman on a bench war­rant. 34 year old Crys­tal Schu­man of Mont­pe­lier, was arrested on a bench war­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. The orig­i­nal charge was Aggra­vated Men­ac­ing. She was taken to court and released.

Stephen L. Gideon, age 67, of Evansport, passed away Wednesday evening, July 30, 2014, in his home. Arrangements are pending at the Grisier Funeral Home in Stryker.

Eunice A. Tedrow, age 99, of Wauseon, passed away Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice. Prior to her retirement, she had worked as a manager for Fulton Manufacturing in Wauseon for 42 years. Eunice was born in Dana, Illinois on December 4, 1914, the daughter of Perry …

Bruce A. Stephens, age 54, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away Monday, July 28, 2014, at St. Joe Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Bruce was formerly a Supervisor at Edge Plastics and Johnson Controls. He enjoyed racing Street Stocks at Butler Motor Speedway in Quincy, Michigan and other local tracks with …

A shoot­ing Tues­day after­noon in Defi­ance is under inves­ti­ga­tion by Defi­ance Police. Accord­ing to a press release issued last evening, offi­cers were called just before 4:30 yes­ter­day after­noon to 617 Bunn Drive where a man was found with a gun­shot wound to his chest. Police say both that man and …

Author­i­ties are still try­ing to fig­ure out who the other per­son was who was killed in a plane crash in Han­cock County last week­end. So far, the body that has been iden­ti­fied was that of Ralf Bron­nen­meier, CEO of Grob Sys­tems in Bluffton, who was pilot­ing the single-engine plane. The …