Three build­ings that were owned by the Defi­ance chap­ter of the DAV were sold at auc­tion Sat­ur­day morn­ing. The high­est bid­der was Char­lene Grant of Defi­ance, who paid $130,000 for all the build­ings and about 4–1/2 acres of prop­erty, accord­ing to the Cres­cent News. Some­where between 35–40 peo­ple showed up …

The Defi­ance County Area Horse­men Asso­ci­a­tion announces that they are hold­ing their annual reverse raf­fle din­ner at 6 p.m. on Sat­ur­day, March 29 at the Defi­ance Knights of Colum­bus hall. All money raised dur­ing the night’s events will go toward har­ness rac­ing at the Defi­ance County Fair. Seats are lim­ited …

The Indi­ana state Court of Appeals has upheld a 105-year prison sen­tence for a north­east Indi­ana man con­victed of fatally shoot­ing another man and shoot­ing at a sheriff’s deputy dur­ing a chase. Accord­ing to the Her­ald Repub­li­can, 26-year-old Zao Garth Bur­rell of Angola appealed his sen­tence, argu­ing he didn’t deserve …

Kathy May Netcher, age 60, of Wauseon, passed away suddenly on Thursday, March 6, 2014 at the Fulton county Health Center. Kathy had been a custodian with Quality Cleaning in Wauseon and also with the Wauseon Schools. Kathy was born in Wauseon on May 29, 1953, the daughter of Laurence …

A power glitch Thurs­day morn­ing around 1 o’clock caused a spike in cur­rent that many peo­ple may not have even noticed while they slept. Accord­ing to The Bryan Times, a capac­i­tor at the Lock­wood Road sub­sta­tion detected a surge and acted to reduce it, as it should. The prob­lem came …

A woman from Defi­ance was injured when her vehi­cle slammed into a util­ity pole on a snow and ice cov­ered road in Noble Town­ship. Police say it hap­pened Wednes­day morn­ing as 21 year old Bethany Inbody was headed east on Ohio 15 and her vehi­cle went out of con­trol, off …

A CSX train derailed ear­lier this week in the vil­lage of Ham­ler. Offi­cials with the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion say the derail­ment hap­pened between 11 p.m. and mid­night Tues­day and 10–12 cars were involved. The cars were haul­ing grain and noth­ing was spilled. Roads and tracks in the area were …

Napoleon Coun­cil met this week, and coun­cil mem­bers got to take a look at financ­ing options for the new water plant project. City finance direc­tor Greg Heath reported that notes have been secured at one-half-percent inter­est for the engi­neer­ing and pre­lim­i­nary costs, which are esti­mated to be around 2.5 mil­lion …

A Steuben County cou­ple were arrested Wednes­day, accused of neglect­ing and mis­treat­ing a 6-year-old child 29 year old Christo­pher Wick­er­ham, and 32 year old April Wick­er­ham, both now face felony counts of neglect of a depen­dent and bat­tery to a child after an inves­ti­ga­tion by The Steuben County Sheriff’s Office …

Cora L. Weaver, age 89, of Wauseon, passed away on Wednesday, March 5, 2014, in her home. Cora was born in Wauseon on February 14, 1925, the daughter of Joel F. and Eliza Eldora (Frybarger) Davidson. On August 12, 1943 she married Ronald O. Weaver, and he preceded her in …