Excit­ing things are hap­pen­ing at Inde­pen­dence Dam State Park east of Defi­ance this sum­mer. Ren­o­va­tion of the marina park­ing lot and plan­ning of new activ­i­ties for vis­i­tors are in progress, and park offi­cials are get­ting camp­ing sites started up again, bring­ing bald eagles to the park from a reha­bil­i­ta­tion facil­ity …

A McClure man sus­tained seri­ous injuries early Sat­ur­day morn­ing when his motor­cy­cle col­lided with a deer near in Henry County. 57 year old Leonel Sifuentes of McClure was taken by air ambu­lance to the Uni­ver­sity of Toledo Med­ical Cen­ter for treat­ment. The Henry County Sheriff’s Office reports that Sifuentes was …

The West­ern Lake Erie region of the Amer­i­can Red Cross will be hold­ing a blood drive on Tues­day at Emanuel Lutheran Church in Napoleon. Call 800-RED-CROSS to sched­ule an appoint­ment for tomorrow’s blood drive.

Hobart Dean Young, 97 years, of Downers Grove, Illinois, and formerly of Bryan, Ohio, passed away Wednesday evening, June 5, 2013 at Arbor Terrace in Alpharetta, Georgia, where he was a residing.  Hobart was born March 5, 1916 in Bryan, Ohio the son of the late Lorin and Jeannette (McKelvey) Young.  He …

Retired Mont­pe­lier Police Chief Jeff Lehman tes­ti­fied Wednes­day before the Ohio House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives’ Edu­ca­tion Com­mit­tee in favor of House Bill 8. If signed into law, the bill would give all school dis­tricts in Ohio the option of train­ing and arm­ing employ­ees, and would pro­tect dis­tricts from law­suits if any­one …

The Edger­ton Senior Cen­ter may not have to go with­out a home for long. It was announced Mon­day the cen­ter was going to shut down activ­i­ties in the vil­lage com­mu­nity build­ing on June 28. How­ever, the county would con­tinue to pro­vide home-delivered meals and ser­vices with­out a local office, although …

At the end of June, about $1 bil­lion in rebate checks will be mailed out from the Ohio Bureau of Work­ers Com­pen­sa­tion . The rebates were autho­rized by the BWC In May for pri­vate employ­ers and public-taxing dis­tricts that pay into the sys­tem. Approx­i­mately $2,416,440 in refund checks are com­ing …

Pet­tisville stu­dent Chrysta Beck has been rec­og­nized for her research on… chick­ens. Beck recently placed third in the ani­mal sci­ences divi­sion of the Intel Inter­na­tion­als Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing Fair, the world’s largest inter­na­tional pre-college sci­ence com­pe­ti­tion. Her project dealt with chick­ens. Beck won $1,000 for her efforts, money that will …

The Defi­ance County engineer’s office has closed Har­ris Road, between Mans­field Road and the Defiance-Putnam County Line Road for sev­eral days for road­side grad­ing. The clo­sure went into effect Thurs­day. The road will not be open to either emer­gency vehi­cles or the gen­eral public.

Insur­ers who plan to par­tic­i­pate in the new health insur­ance exchange are pro­ject­ing their costs to cover Ohioans to be sig­nif­i­cantly higher… that’s accord­ing to an analy­sis released Thurs­day by the Ohio Depart­ment of Insur­ance. State offi­cials said that means peo­ple should also brace for poten­tially higher costs when pur­chas­ing …