An 18-year old Defi­ance teen was charged with under­age drink­ing and dri­ving with­out a license. Dal­las Solis was stopped on Wat­son Rd. and Ohio 15 last Fri­day at 2:20 in the morning. 25-year-old Brady Siebe­naler of Defi­ance was arrested and charged with domes­tic vio­lence on Sun­day. The Sheriff’s Office says …

Ful­ton County Crime Stop­pers has a reward for info about the thief who stole boxed hard­wood floor­ing from a home under con­struc­tion. The theft hap­pened on Decem­ber 7th in Wauseon at a home on Ful­ton County Road F. Some­one pried open a door and made off with about 1,000 square …

Defi­ance wants a bike path to Inde­pen­dence Dam State Park. This week, the county and city are team­ing up to let the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion know their plans. If ODOT is inter­ested, then offi­cials will apply for fed­eral grants to pay for the path. Accord­ing to the county engi­neer, …

The plans are com­plete for the Lib­erty Cen­ter new pre-k through 12th grade school build­ing. The archi­tects pre­sented the draw­ings to the Board of Edu­ca­tion dur­ing it’s reg­u­lar meet­ing this week. The school is expected to being tak­ing shape in early spring. The board also accepted the res­ig­na­tion of a …

News from Mont­pe­lier yes­ter­day. The Coun­cil for the vil­lage met in exec­u­tive ses­sion and announced the res­ig­na­tion and retire­ment of Vil­lage Man­ager, Pam Lucas. Her retire­ment is effec­tive July 24.

Richard D. Smith, age 69, of Wauseon, passed away Sunday, January 10, 2016, in his home. Prior to his retirement he had worked at I.A.C. in Wauseon. Richard was born in Henderson, Nevada on June 7, 1946, the son of Kenneth W. and Virginia (Bullis) Smith. On November 19, 1965 …

Orville E. Stevenson, age 86, of Wauseon, was welcomed into his eternal home with Jesus on Monday morning, January 11, 2016, at the Fulton County Health Center in Wauseon. Prior to his retirement in 1989 he had worked for B. A. Miller and Son and Norwalk Truck Lines. Orville was …

Mary J. Gillen, 80, of Montpelier, Ohio passed away suddenly January 10, 2016, in her home. She was born March 16, 1935 in Defiance County, Ohio to John and Mary (Willitzer) Wagner. Mary attended St. Michael’s Ridge School in Defiance, She married Menard J. Gillen on June 30, 1956, and …

Big changes are com­ing to Toledo, where Fiat Chrysler announced yes­ter­day that Chero­kee is leav­ing and pro­duc­tion of a Jeep Pick up truck will replace it. Employ­ment is expected to remain the same. This comes after Jeep’s Wran­gler shat­tered all pre­vi­ous sales records last year. The new Jeep pick up …

The Defi­ance County Board of Elec­tions said good­bye to Joanna Diehl, who stepped down from her posi­tion on Decem­ber 31st. The 81-year-old Demo­c­rat fin­ished her sec­ond 4-year term. Pre­vi­ously, she served for seven years as the direc­tor of the county’s board of elec­tions office in the 1980s, and at one …