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Vicki Brunn is the new super­in­ten­dent of the Cen­tral Local School Dis­trict, and already she says she feels right at home here. Brunn says she was born in Elwood, Pa.,but spent part of her for­ma­tive years in Find­lay. Her fam­ily then spent years in Ney, Edon and Desh­ler before mov­ing …

Sec­re­tary of State Jon Husted on Fri­day appointed Anthony Wobler and Carla Tooman as mem­bers of the Put­nam County Board of Elec­tions. Wobler and Tooman will com­plete the unex­pired terms of Ann Dillinger and Mar­tin Kuhlman, who were recently removed from the board by Husted after being found to have …

A fam­ily in Tif­fin is mourn­ing the loss of six lives, includ­ing five chil­dren, who died in a fire early Sun­day morn­ing. Police iden­ti­fied the vic­tims as 25 year old Tim­o­thy Fresch, along with his son, 2-yr-old Dominic Fresch and his girl­friend Anna Angel’s four daugh­ters 3-yr-old Sun­shine Huey, 4-yr-old …

A Wood County deputy is reported to be seri­ously injured fol­low­ing a two-vehicle crash involv­ing an 18 year old woman from Defi­ance. The Ohio High­way Patrol has released a report say­ing that the crash Wednes­day evening just after 6:30 on Ohio 281 and Huff­man Road in Wood County. Police say …

Check your cal­en­dar. That’s right, Christ­mas is only about 3 1/2 months away. Now, one area group of motor­cy­cle rid­ers is get­ting set to do their best for kids who may not get any toys oth­er­wise this year. The Con­ti­nen­tals Motor­cy­cle Club will be mak­ing its annual Ravens Care Christ­mas …

Con­ti­nen­tal Ele­men­tary School offi­cials say they are in need of men­tors to read with stu­dents in K-3. If you are inter­ested in vol­un­teer­ing your ser­vices as a men­tor, you can con­tact Terri Hoff­man at 419–596-3860, by email­ing at cnthoffman@cn.noasc.org, or by stop­ping at the ele­men­tary school and fill­ing out a …

A Steuben County man, and accused sex offender, has been arrested. The Steuben County Sheriff’s Office says 55 year old Jerry Hai­fley of Angola was arrested Wednes­day for fail­ure to reg­is­ter as a sex offender. That’s a class D felony. Hai­fley was con­victed of sex­ual bat­tery in 2003 and is …

A judge in Ful­ton County East­ern Dis­trict Court has granted a con­tin­u­ance in the case of a man charged with fail­ing to reg­is­ter a dog which had pre­vi­ously been deter­mined to be vicious because it is con­sid­ered a “pit bull” mix. A pre­trial con­fer­ence was set for 9 a.m., Oct. …

Accord­ing to a press release issued by the Ohio Devel­op­ment Ser­vices Agency, Williams County will soon be receiv­ing $78,000 as a Com­mu­nity Devel­op­ment Block Grant to improve waste­water col­lec­tion north of Bryan. The money will be used at the Oak­wood mobile home park in Pulaski Town­ship. Offi­cials there plan to …

Accord­ing to tes­ti­mony Tues­day in Put­nam County Court, the teenager who is charged with the May 9th deaths of two Ottawa broth­ers, 17 year old Blake and 14 year old Blaine Romes, lied to author­i­ties. 18 year old Michael Fay faces charges of aggra­vated mur­der, abuse of a corpse and …