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The Postal Reform Act of 2013 is on the way, and once it becomes law, the days of postal car­ri­ers walk­ing door-to-door will be over. The Con­gres­sional act man­dates Post Offices use “the most cost effec­tive pri­mary mode of mail deliv­ery pos­si­ble,” specif­i­cally phas­ing out “to the door” deliv­ery in …

Jesus Christ Super­star” will be per­formed at Father John’s this week­end. The Bryan Times reports it will be a ben­e­fit per­for­mance, with free-will offer­ings col­lected at the door and all pro­ceeds split evenly among the county’s four nurs­ing home activ­ity funds. Father John’s used to be a Bap­tist church. John …

A let­ter sent by Defi­ance City Hall to a num­ber of prop­erty own­ers forc­ing pos­si­ble annex­a­tion was the topic of dis­cus­sion at a meet­ing Tues­day night. Coun­cil­man David Plant expressed his con­cern about the let­ter dur­ing council’s reg­u­lar meet­ing. The let­ter Plant ref­er­enced to was dated June 6 and signed …

Two blood dri­ves are being held in Put­nam County this week. One is going on today from noon-6 p.m. at the Glan­dorf Rod and Gun Club on County Road 11 in Ottawa. The sec­ond blood drive will be on Sat­ur­day from 9 a.m.- 2 p.m. at Ottawa Chevro­let on N. …

Unem­ploy­ment in Williams County is on the rise. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, Williams County unem­ploy­ment increased to 6.7 per­cent in May from 6.6 per­cent in April. Defi­ance County’s rate remained at 6.9 per­cent. Ful­ton County’s rate dropped from 7.9 per­cent in April to 7.4 per­cent in May. Henry County’s …

Vil­lage lead­ers in Hol­gate are look­ing into the pos­si­bil­ity of expand­ing and improv­ing the park at Holgate’s for­mer school site. Ear­lier in the month, plans to replace two dugouts at the park were put on hold so vil­lage offi­cials could take a look at the pos­si­bil­ity of a larger-scale ren­o­va­tion …

Sev­eral Cub Scout packs and troops will be in area gro­cery stores this com­ing week­end ask­ing for dona­tions of food to local food pantries. Chief Super­mar­kets in Defi­ance and Wauseon will have grab bags avail­able for $5 which will con­tain a tube of tooth­paste, a bot­tle of sham­poo, a can …

An attor­ney for a Put­nam County teen who has been charged with the deaths of two Ottawa broth­ers has filed a motion to exclude media from cov­er­ing the court hear­ing. The court-appointed attor­ney for 17 year old Michael Fay filed a motion in Put­nam County Juve­nile Court to exclude media …

A single-vehicle crash Mon­day morn­ing claimed the life of a Pio­neer man. The Ohio State High­way Patrol reports that 20 year old Kaleb McLaugh­lin, a pas­sen­ger in a pickup truck dri­ven by 20 year old Mer­cedez Lloyd, also of Pio­neer was killed when the truck ran off County Road 16 …

The Williams County Board of Devel­op­men­tal Dis­abil­i­ties rec­om­mended a num­ber of items, includ­ing a rec­om­men­da­tion for higher pay for union mem­bers, dur­ing their reg­u­lar meet­ing Mon­day at the Enrich­ment Cen­ter. The Bryan Times reports that fol­low­ing an exec­u­tive ses­sion to dis­cuss a col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing agree­ment, the board voted to rec­om­mend …