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Area leg­is­la­tors, Defi­ance County offi­cials, and oth­ers met with Arch­bold vil­lage offi­cials to talk about upgrad­ing a Ful­ton County road into a state route. Local offi­cials want state leg­is­la­tors to con­sider fund­ing a project that would upgrade Ful­ton County Road 24 and pos­si­bly reroute Ohio 66 down the road just …

The Fort Defi­ance Humane Soci­ety is host­ing its 19th annual Monte Carlo Night on April 13 from 7–11:30 p.m. at The Defi­ance Eagles on W. Sec­ond St. The event is expected to raise approx­i­mately $5,000 to sup­ple­ment the humane society’s gen­eral fund. The shelter’s annual bud­get is $200,000. Tick­ets may …

The Napoleon City Coun­cil approved a motion to reject all bids for the Scott Street improve­ment project dur­ing its meet­ing on Mon­day. City offi­cials dis­cov­ered when bids for the project were opened on March 26, not all of the nec­es­sary paper­work had been sub­mit­ted. They felt that reject­ing all of …

The Board of Trustees of North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege will hold its next reg­u­lar meet­ing on Fri­day, April 5, 2013, at 12:00 p.m. in the McDougle Cen­ter (room A101C) at the Arch­bold campus.

Absen­tee bal­lots are now avail­able at the Williams County Board Of Elec­tions for the May 7th Spe­cial Elec­tion. Any reg­is­tered voter within the county may vote in per­son at the board office now through Fri­day May 3rd. Office hours are 8:30am to 4:30pm Mon­day through Fri­day. If you have any …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion is plan­ning some con­struc­tion projects in the area which will be caus­ing some traf­fic detours. Begin­ning Mon­day, April 15th and through the end of the month, South River Road (for­merly US 24) from Henry Lucas County line Road to Providence-Neapolis-Swanton Road will be closed for …

North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege has two events planned for next week. On Tues­day, April 9, NSCC is host­ing the 2013 Job Fair, which is open to the pub­lic and will fea­ture more than 75 local employ­ers. The event will take place in NSCC’s Atrium from 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. The Cen­ter …

Bryan Police made an arrest. Ray Ridg­way of Hamil­ton Street in Bryan was picked up on a Bench War­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. Ridg­way was taken to CCNO.

A man pre­vi­ously con­victed of wit­ness intim­i­da­tion is now headed to jail. Andrew Kendall of Bryan could have been sent to prison for 11 years on another charge of felony assault with a deadly weapon, but he was found not guilty of that charge in March. A jury found Kendall …

Span­gler Candy Com­pany is request­ing Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties per­mis­sion to cap their water well which was drilled in 1940 well and install a new, 10-inch well on Span­gler Candy Co. prop­erty. They say that the cur­rent well is fail­ing and unless they can get another source of water, they will …