Increas­ing prison trans­ports high­lighted Wednesday’s meet­ing of the Cor­rec­tions Com­mis­sion of North­west Ohio. Also, board mem­bers took time to tour newly painted units within the 638-bed facil­ity. CCNO Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Jim Den­nis told the board that Lucas County offi­cials had expressed con­cern about the num­ber of prison runs CCNO is …

Some arrests by Bryan Police, and this time around, many of those arrested were placed behind bars. They include 35 year old Jay L. Hahn of Bryan, who was arrested on a bench war­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. Was taken to CCNO. 22 year old Jacob C. Hite was …

Defi­ance City Coun­cil met on Tues­day night, and among the items on the table, were poten­tial raises for non-union city employ­ees. The Cres­cent News reports that an emer­gency ordi­nance approved by coun­cil, will give the city’s non-union employ­ees, which does not include elected offi­cials, a 1.5 per­cent raise in pay …

Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter board mem­bers will be con­sid­er­ing the revi­sion of their mis­sion state­ment for the cen­ter as well as other short term and long term issues as they head into plan­ning ses­sions in the months ahead. At the meet­ing of the board on Tues­day, the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor said he …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol joined forces with mem­bers of the 6-State Trooper Project for a high-visibility enforce­ment effort focused on crash caus­ing vio­la­tions from Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 21st, at 12:01 a.m. through Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 23rd, at 11:59 p.m. Troop­ers tar­geted safety belt, aggres­sive dri­ving and OVI– related vio­la­tions along the …

It’s now offi­cial. The National Weather Ser­vice has released sta­tis­tics show­ing that this win­ter is now offi­cially the snowiest win­ter on record. We’ve now had more snow than any pre­vi­ous win­ter, even beat­ing out the win­ter of 1977–78 which includes the Bliz­zard of ’78. That win­ter, Williams County got 63.6 …

With the some­what warmer tem­per­a­tures over the past week­end, ice dams on area rivers were a big con­cern to many river com­mu­ni­ties in the area. The good news today is that ice is break­ing up and going out on many rivers as of Mon­day after­noon. Some ice remained in some …

A com­pany that deals with aban­doned fac­tory sites has expressed inter­est in acquir­ing the for­mer SK Hand Tools prop­erty at Defi­ance. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, now Defi­ance County Com­mis­sion­ers need to fig­ure out how the more than $100,000 in unpaid prop­erty taxes due on that prop­erty will be han­dled, …

Catherine “Cathy” M. Bish, 60 of Pioneer, formerly of Canton, Ohio passed away on Monday, February 24th at the Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice Center.  Cathy was born on September 24, 1953 in Canton to Zygmunt and Rozalia (Klummer) Weglarz.  She graduated from Timken High School in Canton in 1973.  On August 21, 1976 …

Barbara J. Whittington, 78 years, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away Monday, February 24, 2014 in her residence with her son at her side.  Barbara was born June 14, 1935 in Grimms Landing, West Virginia, the daughter of the late James and Goldie (Mays) Herdman.  She was a 1953 graduate of Buffalo High …