The power was out for some cus­tomers in our area over this past week­end. Toledo Edi­son says more than 7,000 cus­tomers from the Defiance-Holgate areas were with­out power Sun­day evening due to an equip­ment fail­ure. It hap­pened around 7 p.m. when an insu­la­tor failed at the Rich­land sub­sta­tion along U.S. …

Bryan Police say that on Sat­ur­day, Sarah G. Rroz of Bryan, was arrested for OVI and Speed. She was released. Also, on Sat­ur­day, Holly Kast of Bryan, was arrested for Abuse of Harm­ful Intox­i­cants. She was served with her charge and released; Don Shan­non of Bryan, was arrested for Abuse …

With equal empha­sis on the rewards com­ing with new inter­ests and the know-how to unlock skills for every­day use of dig­i­tal, hand– held devices like smart­phones and dig­i­tal cam­eras, Sem­i­nar Fifty at the Cen­ter for Life­long Learn­ing offers area adults 55 plus an unusual oppor­tu­nity on Sep­tem­ber 27. In the …

Vicki Brunn is the new super­in­ten­dent of the Cen­tral Local School Dis­trict, and already she says she feels right at home here. Brunn says she was born in Elwood, Pa.,but spent part of her for­ma­tive years in Find­lay. Her fam­ily then spent years in Ney, Edon and Desh­ler before mov­ing …

Sec­re­tary of State Jon Husted on Fri­day appointed Anthony Wobler and Carla Tooman as mem­bers of the Put­nam County Board of Elec­tions. Wobler and Tooman will com­plete the unex­pired terms of Ann Dillinger and Mar­tin Kuhlman, who were recently removed from the board by Husted after being found to have …

A fam­ily in Tif­fin is mourn­ing the loss of six lives, includ­ing five chil­dren, who died in a fire early Sun­day morn­ing. Police iden­ti­fied the vic­tims as 25 year old Tim­o­thy Fresch, along with his son, 2-yr-old Dominic Fresch and his girl­friend Anna Angel’s four daugh­ters 3-yr-old Sun­shine Huey, 4-yr-old …

A Wood County deputy is reported to be seri­ously injured fol­low­ing a two-vehicle crash involv­ing an 18 year old woman from Defi­ance. The Ohio High­way Patrol has released a report say­ing that the crash Wednes­day evening just after 6:30 on Ohio 281 and Huff­man Road in Wood County. Police say …

Check your cal­en­dar. That’s right, Christ­mas is only about 3 1/2 months away. Now, one area group of motor­cy­cle rid­ers is get­ting set to do their best for kids who may not get any toys oth­er­wise this year. The Con­ti­nen­tals Motor­cy­cle Club will be mak­ing its annual Ravens Care Christ­mas …

Con­ti­nen­tal Ele­men­tary School offi­cials say they are in need of men­tors to read with stu­dents in K-3. If you are inter­ested in vol­un­teer­ing your ser­vices as a men­tor, you can con­tact Terri Hoff­man at 419–596-3860, by email­ing at cnthoffman@cn.noasc.org, or by stop­ping at the ele­men­tary school and fill­ing out a …

A Steuben County man, and accused sex offender, has been arrested. The Steuben County Sheriff’s Office says 55 year old Jerry Hai­fley of Angola was arrested Wednes­day for fail­ure to reg­is­ter as a sex offender. That’s a class D felony. Hai­fley was con­victed of sex­ual bat­tery in 2003 and is …