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Arthur L. Hug, age 72, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 7:18 P.M. on Sunday, December 13, 2015, at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he was a patient. A lifelong resident of Edgerton and a veteran of the United States Air Force, Mr. Hug was a 1960 graduate of …

A man was sen­tenced to prison on Mon­day after being charged with grand theft. Shon Cantu was given a 58 month prison term with credit for 75 days served in jail while his case was pending. Cantu was sen­tenced in Defi­ance Com­mon Pleas court for three counts of grand theft …

A Pauld­ing man was charged with under­age con­sump­tion of alco­hol and dis­or­derly con­duct over the week­end. Defi­ance Police arrested Seth Aldrich. The 20-year-old was picked up after an inci­dent in the 500 block of Hop­kins St. Defi­ance police arrested a 25-year-old Thur­man St. man for domes­tic vio­lence. Justin Jack­man was …

If you’re a blood donor, there’s a mini blood drive sched­uled for tomor­row at the EOC in Napoleon. Dona­tions are made by appoint­ment only from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For res­i­dents who want to sched­ule a donor appoint­ment, con­tact Janet at 419–967-0976. Again that’s tomor­row between 9 a.m. and …

The Wayne Trace Local Board of Edu­ca­tion wants to hear from the pub­lic about next year’s school cal­en­dar, that’s for 2016–2017. They’ll hold a pub­lic meet­ing on Thurs­day at 6 p.m., just before their reg­u­larly sched­uled monthly meet­ing at 6:15 p.m.

Mont­pe­lier is been approached by a com­pany that wants to build a nearly 200 foot tall cell tower near Depot Street and the rail road tracks. Vil­lage Man­ager Pam Lucas told Williams County com­mis­sion­ers yes­ter­day that the engi­neer­ing firm CTL Engi­neer­ing from Colum­bus that wants to build a tower for …

Low-income area res­i­dents will soon have a new health/dental med­ical cen­ter open­ing soon in Bryan. Ser­vices at the health cen­ter will fea­ture a low-income den­tal clinic, pri­mary care med­ical ser­vices, a phar­macy and opi­oid treat­ment that includes the use of medication. Jan­ice Sun­der­haus, the CEO of Health Part­ners of West­ern …

A half-million dol­lars in fund­ing has been approved to build a new drug treat­ment facil­ity in Napoleon. The com­pre­hen­sive addic­tion treat­ment facil­ity would be owned and oper­ated by a Toledo com­pany, A Renewed Mind Behav­io­r­ial Health. They already have pro­grams in Lucas, Wood, Han­cock and Williams County. The new facil­ity …

The Health Depart­ment needs more money to oper­ate, and Pauld­ing County com­mis­sion­ers encour­aged the depart­ment to seek an oper­at­ing levy to help with bud­getary issues. Among the money issues, pre­mi­ums for employ­ees increased by 25% for next year, and rev­enue has not increased. Since the depart­ment has not had an …

An armed rob­bery late Fri­day night in Cecil at the Mara­mart gas sta­tion on U.S. 127. About 8:45 p.m. two white males entered the place with a bolt action rifle. The one hold­ing the gun was wear­ing blue jeans and a flan­nel jacket with a black stock­ing cap. The other …