CSX is ask­ing the county and Defi­ance to close six rail­road cross­ings, includ­ing at Hire Rd., to vehi­cle traf­fic. CSX has joined the Pub­lic Util­i­ties Com­mis­sion of Ohio and the Ohio Rail Devel­op­ment Com­mis­sion in offer­ing to pay the county hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars to cre­ate alter­nate access for …

A Brady Town­ship home was all but lost by fire. The home­own­ers, Roger and Penny Perez, were just turn­ing in when Roger smelled smoke com­ing from their util­ity room. Fire­fight­ers got the fire out, but the smoke ruined their belong­ings, and they lost their pet dog to smoke inhala­tion. The …

There were inter­mit­tent 911 out­ages through­out the county yes­ter­day morn­ing. Accord­ing to the Direc­tor of the Williams County EMA Dawn Bald­win, there was a prob­lem with a Fron­tier Com­mu­ni­ca­tions con­troller in New Paris, Indi­ana that affected sev­eral coun­ties from about 6 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Two res­i­dents called 911 Wednes­day night on odor com­plaints. What they smelled was a new liner that was being applied to exist­ing sewer con­duits. The Super­vi­sor of Admin­is­tra­tive Ser­vices said they had sent out notices in the area to alert res­i­dents. Fire­fight­ers went to Broad Street and South East Avenue …

Some cuts are com­ing to Titan Tire in Bryan. The com­pany told work­ers they’ll cut oper­a­tions from three shifts to one. That is expected to elim­i­nate half of the cur­rent work­force of 180 employees. Work­ers are wait­ing to hear on Fri­day the num­ber of peo­ple who’ll be laid off, and …

Despite com­plaints from hunters that the num­ber of deer appears down this year, The Ohio Depart­ment of Nat­ural Resources put out some num­bers yes­ter­day that showed more deer were checked in area coun­ties so far this year than last. On open­ing day, hunters checked 22,256 white-tailed deer. The deer-gun sea­son …

Two of Defiance’s top city offi­cials will stay on with the approval of the next mayor. On Tues­day, coun­cil dis­cussed con­tract renewals for admin­is­tra­tor Jeff Leonard, and law direc­tor David Williams. Cur­rent Mayor Bob Arm­strong told the coun­cil that he and incom­ing Mayor Mike McCann, who won a four-year term …

The Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio may be get­ting state offend­ers and a grant pro­gram will pay the facil­ity to house them. Offi­cials at CCNO will purse the grant which would open 20 beds for longer term inmates. As for the Pay-for-Stay pro­gram, which has been in place for five …

A Pauld­ing man accused of rob­bing the Speed­way in Defi­ance on N. Clin­ton St. was arrested and charged Tues­day in Defi­ance County Com­mon Pleas Court. 26-year-old John Gos­nell was charged with felony aggra­vated rob­bery with a firearm. He allegedly stole cash on Novem­ber 14th and fled on foot. He’s being …

If you’ve ever won­dered if tech­nol­ogy could make your life eas­ier, like remind­ing you to take your med­ica­tion, brush your teeth or some­thing more sophis­ti­cated, like a flame­less stove that doesn’t heat any­thing put the pan, mak­ing fires a thing of the past. You can see some of these tech­no­log­i­cal break­throughs …