Brian W. Bleikamp, 50 years, of Alvordton, passed away Thursday, May 22, 2014 in his residence.  Brian was born September 19, 1963 in Montpelier to John and Martha (Setzler) Bleikamp.  He was a 1981 graduate of Four County Vocational School, where he studied Diesel Mechanics.  He was a machine operator for TRW in …

Indi­ana State Police say they will be con­duct­ing a sobri­ety check­point in DeKalb County tonight. In an effort to reduce the num­ber of alcohol-related auto­mo­bile crashes, the sobri­ety check­point will tar­get the impaired dri­ver and will be uti­lized in an area iden­ti­fied as hav­ing a high num­ber of alco­hol related …

The Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio received the high­est rec­om­men­da­tions for accred­i­ta­tion by audi­tors of the Amer­i­can Cor­rec­tion Asso­ci­a­tion on Wednes­day fol­low­ing a recent three-day intense audit. CCNO Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Jim Den­nis said CCNO staff had been plan­ning for the audit for the past three years. Dur­ing the three-day event, …

The Defi­ance County fair board has reversed an ear­lier deci­sion, and has now decided to once again allow peo­ple to con­tinue rent­ing horse stalls at the fair­grounds. Last month, the board said it was going to stop rent­ing stalls and close the track for part of the spring and sum­mer, …

Fig­ures just released by the Ohio Depart­ment of Job and Fam­ily Ser­vices show the unem­ploy­ment rate in north­west Ohio drop­ping from March to April. The fig­ures released this week show north­west Ohio’s not sea­son­ally adjusted unem­ploy­ment rates were all below 6 per­cent last month, with just two coun­ties, Ful­ton and …

We told you recently about the memo­r­ial rock that was removed from in front of a Pauld­ing school after alle­ga­tions that the per­son it hon­ored, the late Don Schnepp, was accused of sex­u­ally abus­ing some stu­dents years ago. On Tues­day evening, David Kinkade of Defi­ance appeared before the Pauld­ing Exempted …

The Williams County Retired Teach­ers Asso­ci­a­tion held its first meet­ing of the year recently in Mont­pe­lier. They rec­og­nized 13 mem­bers who had vol­un­teered more than 100 hours dur­ing 2013, and rec­og­nized the fact that they donated more than 7,784 hours of vol­un­teer ser­vice to Williams County in 2013. The next …

In Wauseon, res­i­dents of one sub­di­vi­sion spoke up loud and clear at the Mon­day night meet­ing of Wauseon City Coun­cil, about how they are against a pro­posed plan for a clus­ter of rental prop­er­ties. More than 80 Pat West home­own­ers told coun­cil that they were opposed to plans by devel­oper …

Napoleon coun­cil, after months of talk­ing about the pros and cons of it, has agreed not to out­source its city dis­patch ser­vices to Henry County. Napoleon placed the issue on the May pri­mary elec­tion bal­lot seek­ing the opin­ion of vot­ers. The issue was defeated with 68 per­cent of vot­ers vot­ing …

An Orland woman was sen­tenced this week in Steuben Cir­cuit Court to spend the next ten years in prison after she plead guilty to deal­ing Metham­phet­a­mine. 26-year-old Jes­sica Mar­shall was arrested last Octo­ber by the Steuben County Sher­iffs Depart­ment after detec­tives found sev­eral items inside her home that police say …