A Defi­ance native and Army recruit was rec­og­nized at the Pen­ta­gon last month for her work as a sex­ual assault pre­ven­tion advo­cate. The Cres­cent News reports that 22 year old Natasha (Woodruff) Schuette was one of three women hon­ored dur­ing a Pen­ta­gon cer­e­mony com­mend­ing the women for their char­ac­ter, courage …

Thirty-one police offi­cers and sheriff’s deputies from north­west Ohio recently com­pleted an advanced emergency-vehicle dri­ving course at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lex­ing­ton. State casino rev­enue ded­i­cated to law enforce­ment train­ing pays for the pro­gram. Indi­vid­ual com­mu­ni­ties were required to pay their offi­cers’ expenses before the casino fund­ing became …

The Ful­ton County Fair has offi­cially announced this year’s con­cert lineup. The Doo­bie Broth­ers will per­form on Aug. 31 and coun­try acts Lee Brice and Cole Swindell will anchor the Labor Day show. Tick­ets go on sale July 7 by mail, online at fultoncountyfair.com, or by call­ing 419–335-7469. The Fair …

John Spencer Tiffany, age 54, of Wauseon, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, April 17, 2014 at the Fulton County Health Center. Visitation for John will be held from 2:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 at the Edgar-Grisier Funeral Home in Wauseon. The funeral service will be …

Bryan Police report one arrest on Thurs­day. They say 61 year old Gary Kiraly of Senacav­ille, Ohio, was arrested for Theft and Shoplift­ing. He was taken to CCNO. No other details, such as where he was arrested or what store he allegedly stole from were made avail­able by Bryan Police.

A famil­iar face is back in the edu­ca­tion busi­ness. Jeff Erb retired from the Stryker Board of Edu­ca­tion in Jan­u­ary. On Thurs­day, the Gov­er­nor announced Erb’s appoint­ment to the North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Board of Trustees. Join­ing Erb on the board, will be John Briden­baugh of Defi­ance. Accord­ing to the …

The Defi­ance County fair board this week, made the deci­sion to imme­di­ately stop rent­ing stalls in the fair­grounds’ horse barns. The board also said they plan to shut down the track for part of the spring and sum­mer. Part of the rea­son given was that con­struc­tion will be tak­ing place …

In Ful­ton County, offi­cials are ask­ing for your help in solv­ing a bur­glary at a home near Swan­ton on road C that took place on Tues­day, March 18th. The home­owner says some­one broke in by kick­ing in a front door. They came home to find items were thrown around, and …

This com­ing week­end is Easter week­end, and kids will be happy to know that there are sev­eral Easter Egg Hunts planned in our area. There will be a Com­mu­nity Easter Egg Hunt at Pio­neer United Methodist Church on Sat­ur­day at 3 p.m. Rain or shine, all kids wel­come! And in …

A ben­e­fit for the Garza fam­ily of Defi­ance is planned for this Sat­ur­day at the UAW hall. The Garza fam­ily lost four mem­bers recently and funds will be used for their funeral and other expenses.Things will kick off at 11 a.m. with reg­is­tra­tion for a Texas Hold-em poker tour­na­ment, that …