In Mark Town­ship, Defi­ance County, they need money to fix roads and bridges. Now a 2-mill, five-year levy will be decided on Nov. 3 by town­ship vot­ers. If passed that would gen­er­ate close to 70 tho­suand dol­larrs. For a per­son own­ing a prop­erty val­ued at 50 thou­sand dol­lars, it would …

15 mon­u­ments in the Vet­er­ans Memo­r­ial Park in Williams County will be replaced after a vote by the Board of Trustees recently. They’ll use 3 inch slabs of gran­ite to give the stones some longe­tiv­ity. Those slabs will have the names of every vet­eran from Willaims County, reports the Bryan …

15 mon­u­ments in the Vet­er­ans Memo­r­ial Park in Williams County will be replaced after a vote by the Board of Trustees recently. They’ll use 3 inch slabs of gran­ite to give the stones some longe­tiv­ity. Those slabs will have the names of every vet­eran from Willaims County, reports the Bryan …

A shoot­ing in Pan­dora Sat­ur­day night left a 17 year old boy dead. Put­nam County Sher­iffs Deputies went to 13915 Road 3 at just past 7pm and found the vic­tim. Police haven’t released the name of the vic­tim but early signs are the shoot­ing was acci­den­tal. No charges have been …

Roger W. Schwader, 67 years, of Sherwood, passed away peacefully, Thursday, October 15, 2015 at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice Center, Defiance.  Roger was born April 9, 1948 in Hicksville, Ohio, the son of Patricia (White) and the late William L. Schwader.  He was a 1967 graduate of Ayersville High …

The increased demand for emer­gency ser­vices has Ful­ton County look­ing to vot­ers for more money. A Novem­ber 3 bal­lot questoin will ask for a 2-mill renewal, plus a 2-mill addi­tion. The new rev­enue would bring in 2.6 mil­lon dol­lars annu­ally. For the owner of a home worth 100 tho­suand dol­lars, …

The first and hope­fully not the last Bryan Okto­ber­fest hap­pens tomorrow…a cel­e­bra­tion of all things Ger­man. It’s hap­pen­ing from 4pm to 1am behind Williams County Com­mu­nity The­ater at Beech and But­ler Streets. There will be lots of food, brats, saurekraut ger­man potato salad and a host of bev­er­ages to wash …

They’re tear­ing down and build­ing up again in Defi­ance where Arch­bold based D and R Demo­li­tion has torn down a house and shed located nor far from Defi­ance High School. That demo­li­tion is to get ready to build­ing a school for grades 6 through 12. They’ve also been doing work …

A local vet­eran is being remem­bered for his ser­vice to the Union Army. Defi­ance native Albert Wil­helm King will be hon­ored with a makrer at Rive­side Cemetary in Defi­ance dur­ing a cer­e­mony Sun­day after­noon. At the cer­e­mony, a Civil War head­stone will be placed next to Kings final rest­ing place …

As they try to curb van­dal­ism, mem­bers of Defi­ance City Coun­cil have approved the instal­la­tion of video sur­veil­lance equip­ment in city parks. The equip­ment will be inst­lalled at Kings­bury, Latty’s Grove and River­side Parks. The secu­rity firmADT will do the instal­la­tion. The cost of those instal­la­tions will cost just under …