The Four County alcohol, drug addiction and mental health services board approved spending up to $180,000 to provide preventive health services, including routine screenings, in area schools at the board’s meeting. The services will be provided by Health Partners of Western Ohio, a federally qualified health center provider that has …

Proposed legislation, that would have reversed a ban on medicinal marijuana facilities in Defiance, won’t be on city council’s agenda Tuesday, or even in the near future. Council had approved the ban by a 4-3 count in December, but with new members seated in January, Ward 3 Councilman Dave Plant …

AT&T has upgraded its wireless network in Bryan, Napoleon, Fremont and Clyde after work on nearly a dozen cell towers. Online and phone service will be many times faster than before. Area city officials and the communications giant made the announcement over the weekend.

A woman is arraigned in a Defiance County courtroom for shooting her husband. Linda Osting pled not guilty to attempted aggravated murder and assault charges. A pretrial hearing is scheduled for March 1. The judge continued her $250,000 cash bond with a 10 percent allowance provision. Prosecutors say Osting shot …

John Skelton may have finally told the truth about his sons. He told a reporter off camera the teeth and bone fragments found in a shed behind a Missoula, Montana, residence last fall are “not his boys.” The reporter spent two hours with Skelton at the Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility …

Incumbent Jim Hoops, of Napoleon, will face off against Tom Liebrecht, of Putnam County, in the May 8 GOP primary for the 81st Ohio House District seat. We now hear Janet Breneman, of West Unity, filed as a Democrat for the seat prior to this week’s deadline for the primary. …

The Edgerton Village Council approves the resignation of the water and sewer superintendent there. Brad Fritch’s last day is today, but that won’t cause any problems as the council also approved a contract with Chad Ordway to be the operator of record, temporarily. Ordway was the wastewater operator in Edgerton …

Wednesday’s election filing deadline to qualify for the May 8 primary produced a short list of candidates and issues throughout the Defiance area’s six counties. Commissioner, Ryan Mack and Auditor, Jill Little will each seek a second four-year term. Democrats did not field a candidate in either race. In Henry …

Dorothy “Dot” J. Ragland, 68, of Pioneer, passed away on Friday, February 9, 2018 at Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice Center in Defiance. She was born on November 11, 1949 in Hillsdale, MI, to Norman G. “Whitey” Thorp and Margaret Grace (Miller) Thorp. Dot graduated from North Central High School in …

Marion R. Beck, 94 years, of West Unity passed away Thursday, February 8, 2018 in Fulton County Health Center, Wauseon. Marion was born August 31, 1923 in Pryor, Oklahoma, the daughter of the late Ernie and Della (Summers) Nafziger. She was a 1941 graduate of Fayette High School. Marion married …