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Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter board mem­bers learned at their meet­ing on Tues­day that the Mama DeLuca’s® Pizza Now! store in Stryker led all of the franchise’s stores in net sales in 2012. The man­ager of the pizza store as well as the SUBWAY® Restau­rants oper­ated by Quadco, told the board mem­bers …

Ohio Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture (ODA) Direc­tor David Daniels, who was raised in Green­field, was the guest speaker Tues­day at the Hicksville Rotary Club’s Farm and Ven­dor Day at Hicksville High School. Daniels told the group that there are about 73,500 farms in Ohio. He said he’s excited about Ohio becom­ing …

A woman is dead after being hit by a train. The Ful­ton County Sher­iff says deputies found the body of 44 year old Lisa Sawyers of Michi­gan along the tracks. Sawyers report­edly had been lying on the train tracks just before she was hit and killed. No foul play is …

Just like most other coun­ties and munic­i­pal­i­ties in the area, Pauld­ing County road crews are just wait­ing for the weather to break so they can put away snow plows and get out the con­struc­tion equip­ment. Bridge projects will be a big pri­or­ity this year. They include the County Road 87 …

Live Healthy Live Well is a free, six week, online email chal­lenge designed to help par­tic­i­pants improve their health by encour­ag­ing reg­u­lar exer­cise, nutri­tion and well­ness tips. Par­tic­i­pants will receive weekly e-communications from Ohio State Uni­ver­sity Exten­sion with tips and recipes to help them get fit. Each week par­tic­i­pants will …

Before The Cen­tral Local Board of Edu­ca­tion met Mon­day after­noon, board mem­bers toured the school facil­i­ties. Part of the high school tour included look­ing at build­ing entrancees, safety pro­ce­dures and items that need to be fixed on the build­ing. They also met with the high school stu­dent coun­cil and had …

A new report says that in Ohio, nearly eight in 10 par­ents who pay child sup­port owe a past-due bal­ance, and col­lec­tions have dropped by nearly $127 mil­lion since the 2008 fed­eral fis­cal year. North­west Ohio’s child sup­port enforce­ment agen­cies how­ever, say they can report col­lec­tion rates bet­ter than the …

Henry County is mak­ing a big invest­ment in it’s roads. The County plans to spend over one and a half mil­lion dol­lars in road­way and cul­vert improve­ments this year. Henry County Offi­cials expect approx­i­mately 4.8 miles of road­way to be resur­faced dur­ing four paving projects sched­uled this year. Henry County …

Defi­ance City Coun­cil meets this evening to con­sider three ordi­nances. The reg­u­lar meet­ing begins tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the city ser­vice build­ing at 631 Perry St. Ordi­nances autho­riz­ing appli­ca­tion for com­mu­nity hous­ing improve­ment pro­gram funds, a con­tract for a John­son street sweeper and appli­ca­tion for alter­na­tive trans­porta­tion pro­gram funds …

The med­ical assist­ing pro­gram at North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege in Arch­bold recently earned the max­i­mum five-year, national reac­cred­i­ta­tion from the Com­mis­sion on Accred­i­ta­tion of Allied Health Edu­ca­tion Pro­grams (CAAHEP). Because NSCC’s med­ical assist­ing pro­gram is accred­ited, grad­u­ates are eli­gi­ble to sit for the Cer­ti­fied Med­ical Assistant’s exam. For more infor­ma­tion …