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A mobile home at the Buck Lake camp­ground was destroyed in a fire early yes­ter­day morn­ing. It took fire­fight­ers from the Angola Fire Depart­ment about 20 min­utes to get the fire under con­trol around 1 a.m. The mobile home is a total loss. No word yet on the cause.

The 9th Annual Olde Tyme Hol­i­day Gath­er­ing fea­tur­ing a lighted parade will be held Novem­ber 21. A Crafts and Gifts Show runs from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Mont­pe­lier Exempted Vil­lage School. Down­town, shops and restau­rants will be open. The parade begins at 6 pm, fol­lowed by the Christ­mas …

In news that affects your wal­let, the Williams County Health Depart­ment approved a $1.2 mil­lion bud­get for next year at its reg­u­lar monthly meet­ing. That’s down about $22,000 from this year’s bud­get. Nurs­ing Direc­tor Becky Syn­der told those at the meet­ing that more Hepati­tis C cases among younger peo­ple are …

There’s gonna be a new Sher­iff in town. Dou­glas Engle wants it to be him. The Com­man­der of the Multi-Area Nar­cotics Task Force for the last 13 years announced this week he wants to be Sher­iff in Defi­ance County. He’s seek­ing the GOP nom­i­na­tion next March.

The Pauld­ing mayor’s race has a new win­ner. After count­ing absen­tee and pro­vi­sional bal­lots, the Board of Elec­tions cer­ti­fied Greg Rein­hart the win­ner by 10 votes.

A blast of cold weather is headed this way. The National Weather Ser­vice says we could get some snow this week­end. Right now, it looks to begin Fri­day night, with a bet­ter chance of snow on Sat­ur­day… and temps drop­ping to below 20 degrees on Sun­day night. Check our web­site …

With Thanks­giv­ing right around the cor­ner, Cooper Farms has donated more than 5,000 pounds of meat to the Ohio Asso­ci­a­tion of Food­banks. Gary Cooper, the COO of Cooper Farms, said most of the meat will stay in the west­ern Ohio area. Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Ohio Asso­ci­a­tion of …

As farm­ers get ready for win­ter, the new state law con­cern­ing water qual­ity and fer­til­izer were to topic of con­ver­sa­tion at the Ever­green Lane Office Com­plex. The law estab­lished new restric­tions. About two dozen area res­i­dents talked about the restric­tions, weather fore­casts, and keep­ing track of treat­ments. Matt Lane, the …

The Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion agency has sent a notice to Defi­ance County about E. coli test­ing in Plat­ter Creek which is prompt­ing a health depart­ment inves­ti­ga­tion. The EPA said a test of Plat­ter Creek dis­cov­ered “ele­vated” E. coli lev­els, and that the color of the water and odor sug­gest a nearby …

The Williams County Board of Elec­tions has cer­ti­fied the gen­eral elec­tion results from early Novem­ber. No races were changed, and none will be sub­ject to an auto­matic recount. The results became final after tab­u­lat­ing the pro­vi­sional and absen­tee bal­lots, about 175 total. The Board says 32 bal­lots were dis­qual­i­fied for …