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Defi­ance County’s high­way projects this year are expected to cost around $5 mil­lion, with much of that ear­marked for the long-delayed prject to widen Ayersville Road. That $2.9 mil­lion project is expected to start this week The project com­ple­tion dead­line is Sept. 30.

Ohio uni­ver­si­ties expect­ing decreased research fund­ing in the wake of the auto­matic fed­eral bud­get cuts that took place this month are try­ing to pre­pare for those cuts and find alter­na­tives to replace the money. Thou­sands of sci­en­tists at uni­ver­si­ties across Ohio face the threat to their research fund­ing, and that …

Williams County Sher­iff Steven Towns recently com­pleted train­ing which will allow him to train school and busi­ness lead­ers in proac­tive sur­vival strate­gies in case a vio­lent per­son comes into their build­ings. Towns says a sur­vival men­tal­ity is the first and best defense in that kind of sit­u­a­tion while await­ing law …

Police are try­ing to find those respon­si­ble for break­ing into a busi­ness in Arch­bold and steal­ing about $16,000 worth of tools. Some­one broke into Auto Thru Class 8 Trucks LLC in the 200 block of Tay­lor Park­way and stole such items as scan tools, wrenches, socket sets, grinders, and snap-on …

Swan­ton police say it was an acci­den­tal shoot­ing that left a local man wounded in the leg Sat­ur­day evening. 19 year old Christo­pher Flickinger was flown by air ambu­lance from Ful­ton County Health Cen­ter in Wauseon to Mercy St. Vin­cent Med­ical Cen­ter on Sun­day. Flickinger and his room­mate were appar­ently …

A steel I-beam from the North Tower of the World Trade Cen­ter will be part of a new mon­u­ment on the Ful­ton County Fair­grounds. The I-beam was most likely a ver­ti­cal sup­port beam from one of floors. Bits of con­crete from the floor are still vis­i­ble. The force of the …

It’s a deal! On Thurs­day, after nearly a week of nego­ti­a­tions, mem­bers of Local 20 of the Inter­na­tional Broth­er­hood of Team­sters and Span­gler Candy Com­pany signed a five-year con­tract. Major dis­cus­sion cen­tered around insur­ance and wages.

A school safety and gun vio­lence forum was spon­sored this week by the Shalom Coun­sel­ing Medi­a­tion Cen­ter and Defi­ance Col­lege and was held on Tues­day at the col­lege. Area law enforce­ment offi­cials, edu­ca­tors, and many local res­i­dents showed up and expressed their con­cerns about safety in our local schools. Some …

The Williams County Soil and Water Con­ser­va­tion Dis­trict has placed a levy on the May 7 spe­cial elec­tion bal­lot, which they say will bring in $271,000 annu­ally if passed. The res­o­lu­tion has been filed, but because the May bal­lot is a spe­cial elec­tion, Soil and Water will need to pay …

Another wind farm com­pany is look­ing at our area. North­west Ohio Wind Energy LLC will hold a pub­lic infor­ma­tional meet­ing at 6pm on April 9 at Wayne Trace High School. North­west Ohio Wind Energy wants to build around 50 wind tur­bines to the west and east of U.S. 127. The …