Angola is con­sid­er­ing whether or not to annex a num­ber of sub­di­vi­sions of County Road 100N just west of town. Offi­cials say a sig­nif­i­cant num­ber of sep­tic sys­tem fail­ures in the area prompted the dis­cus­sion by the Board of Pub­lic Works ear­lier this week. Should the annex­a­tion go for­ward, that …

One of the world’s largest prop­erty insur­ers has awarded a grant to the Auburn Fire Depart­ment. The $2,500 fire pre­ven­tion grant from FM Global will be used for pub­lic edu­ca­tion of fire pre­ven­tion and responses to help reduce the num­ber of fires in the community.

The Ohio Parole Board voted unan­i­mously to rec­om­mend that the gov­er­nor reject a plea for clemency from 61-year-old for­mer coin dealer Tom Noe. Noe was con­victed in 2006 for theft of any­where from $13 mil­lion to $50 mil­lion in rare-coin invest­ment funds. Should Gov. John Kasich agree with the board, …

Ellen E. Rehse, age 83, of Delta passed away Saturday August 1, 2015. Prior to her retirement she had been an Area Manager for the Avon Corporation for many years. Mrs. Rehse was born on August 23, 1931 in Detroit, Michigan the daughter of the late Alfred and the late …

A single-vehicle crash yes­ter­day morn­ing is being inves­ti­gated by local deputies. The wreck hap­pened just before 7am yes­ter­day on State Route 576 when 54-year-old Mar­tin Cole of Edon tried to turn onto Williams County Road H. Instead, he ran off the road­way and struck a util­ity pole. The Williams County …

A wad of cash along with a gun and ammu­ni­tion remains miss­ing from the evi­dence room of the Auburn Police Depart­ment. Over $2,000, a shot­gun, the ammo, and some knives were first noticed miss­ing back in Jan­u­ary when some­one went to retrieve the money as evi­dence in a case. Police …

Ohio High­way Patrol and other depart­ments are look­ing into a wreck that took the life of a motor­cy­cle rider. The inci­dent occurred yes­ter­day evening just before 6pm on High­way 127. Police say that 18-year-old Wyatt Puffin­berger of Bryan turned left in front of an oncom­ing motor­cy­cle rid­den by 26-year-old Bryan …

An ATV acci­dent Mon­day night sent a Per­rys­burg man to the hos­pi­tal. Ohio State Patrol responded a call just after 7:30 that evening and found 38-year-old Thomas Pis­archik lying a short dis­tance from his wrecked ATV. He had been trav­el­ing down Defiance-Paulding County Line Road with 62-year-old Larry Atch­ley at …

A house fire in Henry County last week that uncov­ered a woman’s body is still under inves­ti­ga­tion. Fire­fight­ers found the body of 52-year-old Yvonne Nel­son of Ontario, Canada, after they were able to extin­guish the flames. Her cause-of-death also remains in ques­tion, and though an autopsy was sched­uled with the …

Some good news for your wal­let: gas prices in Ohio have dropped nearly 15 cents-per-gallon over the past week, with aver­age prices set­tling around $2.30-per-gallon. Down in Lima, a gal­lon of reg­u­lar unleaded can be had for as low as $2.02-per-gallon, nearly 20 cents lower than last week. It’s all …