Pend­ing the upcom­ing sub­mis­sion and pos­si­ble approval of a com­pet­i­tive U.S. Depart­ment of Jus­tice grant appli­ca­tion, there could likely be a full time police offi­cer sta­tioned in Defi­ance City Schools. A grant will be filed to help fund a com­mu­nity resource officer.The grant, if approved, would fund 75 per­cent of …

The Amer­i­can Red Cross of Henry County will hold a blood drive on Mon­day, June 3 at the Ridgeville Cor­ners fire depart­ment from 1:30–6:30 p.m. Walk-ins are wel­come. To sched­ule an appoint­ment, call 800-RED CROSS.

Two com­pa­nies were fined after safety vio­la­tions were found dur­ing inspec­tions at a man­u­fac­tur­ing plant in Erie County and a grain stor­age site in Ful­ton County. Kyk­los Bear­ing Inter­na­tional LLC of San­dusky, which pro­duces ball bear­ings for the auto indus­try, was fined $65,000 for safety vio­la­tions related to employ­ees exposed …

A $15 mil­lion grant from the fed­eral gov­ern­ment will help Ohio cre­ate more than 1,000 tem­po­rary jobs for efforts to clean up and recover from severe storms that bat­tered the state last sum­mer in late June and early July. The U.S. Depart­ment of Labor ini­tially announced a grant for up …

A 68-year-old Ohio man was crushed by corn in a grain silo. The body of War­ren Mumma was removed from the bot­tom of a silo in Clark County just after 4 p.m. Tues­day. Res­cue work­ers say Mumma had entered the silo and the corn col­lapsed on him.

Quadco exec­u­tives began annual plan­ning with the mem­bers of the Admin­is­tra­tive and Non-Profit Boards on Tues­day. There are now 15 peo­ple in the train­ing pro­gram work­ing along­side other employ­ees at Quadco’s Stryker Sub­way and the Bryan and Defi­ance Sub­ways located in the Wal­mart stores. They are learn­ing to do the …

Bryan Police arrested 24 year old Michael Jorkos of Stryker on Sun­day. Jorkos was charged with dri­ving with an open con­tainer in his vehi­cle. He was processed and then released. On Mon­day, Bryan Police arrested 45 year old Judd But­ter­more of Mont­pe­lier. But­ter­more was charged with speed­ing, fail­ure to dis­play …

A spe­cial meet­ing of the Board of Edu­ca­tion of the Bryan City School Dis­trict is sched­uled for Mon­day, June 10th at 7pm in the Bryan Mid­dle School Com­mons. The pur­pose of the meet­ing will be to hold a pub­lic dis­cus­sion relat­ing to school dis­trict facil­ity plan­ning and other items of …

The Vet­er­ans Memo­r­ial Build­ing and Plaza on the Williams County fair­grounds was ded­i­cated Sun­day after­noon. The plaza con­tains the names of thir­teen thou­sand vet­er­ans from Williams County who served in the U.S. mil­i­tary. The plaza and hall were a grass-roots effort to honor local veterans.

A 17-year-old boy from sub­ur­ban Detroit drowned after the boat in which he and a com­pan­ion were fish­ing over­turned. It hap­pened early Sun­day morn­ing near Wolf Lake in Lenawee County, about 15 miles north­west of Adrian. Author­i­ties say police and fire offi­cials deter­mined that two teenagers were out fish­ing when …