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The Defi­ance Police Depart­ment con­tin­ues to inves­ti­gate a shoot­ing. It was at 2:07 a.m. Thurs­day, when offi­cers were called to an apart­ment build­ing in Defi­ance on Jef­fer­son Ave. for a reported shoot­ing. Three men were involved. One man was taken to Mercy Defi­ance Hos­pi­tal where he was treated and released. …

The old say­ing goes some­thing like this… “it’s in the water.” In Mont­pe­lier, that seems to be the truth. Once again, Montpelier’s water has been deemed award win­ning. It placed fourth at this year’s Berke­ley Springs Inter­na­tional Water Tast­ing event in Berke­ley Springs, West Vir­ginia. It’s not the first time …

Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter board mem­bers spent most of their reg­u­lar monthly meet­ing on Tues­day con­duct­ing their annual plan­ning ses­sion. They largely focused on how to cre­ate com­mu­nity inte­grated oppor­tu­ni­ties for the peo­ple being served at QRC over the next four years. New Cen­ters for Medicare and Med­ic­aid Ser­vices waiver require­ments …

At Monday’s Defi­ance City Board of Edu­ca­tion meet­ing, dis­cus­sion cen­tered around the con­struc­tion project that is planned, along with an emi­nent domain res­o­lu­tion which was approved. The dis­trict plans to soon sub­mit doc­u­ments to the Ohio Facil­i­ties Con­struc­tion Com­mis­sion for the schematic design phase at the grade 6–12 site. A …

The Mon­day night shoot­ing of a Ful­ton County man remains under inves­ti­ga­tion today. The vic­tim, Con Wyse, was shot in the left leg in Arch­bold along South Defi­ance Street. Wyse was first taken to the Ful­ton County Health Cen­ter in Wauseon, then trans­ferred to Mercy St. Vin­cent Med­ical Cen­ter, Toledo. …

An Amer­i­can Red Cross blood drive is sched­uled for this Thurs­day, from 3–7 p.m. at Antwerp Com­mu­nity Church of the Nazarene on South Erie Street in Antwerp. Walk ins are wel­come, but if you would like to sched­ule an appoint­ment, you can do that too by call­ing 800–733-2767.

A for­mer res­i­dent of Stur­gis, along with her son, are dead after try­ing to help other peo­ple in Ten­nessee. 34 year old Kristi Clark and her 10 year old son Carter Oak­ley, stopped on Inter­state 65 to help the pas­sen­gers of an SUV that had flipped over after hit­ting some …

A free pro­gram for those who are watch­ing their weight and want to exer­cise heart health is being held on Thurs­day at the Defi­ance Area YMCA. Between 6:30 and 8 p.m Thurs­day, the annual Heart Health pro­gram, will include an address by Doc­tor Mohammed S. Alo, a car­di­ol­o­gist at Mercy …

No dam­age esti­mates have yet been released fol­low­ing a fire in West Unity Sun­day night that dam­aged a home on County Road 21-N. Accord­ing to inves­ti­ga­tors, it started as a chim­ney fire, then broke through into an upstairs bed­room. Fire­fight­ers fought the flames and the cold weather for sev­eral hours …

A Defi­ance farmer has won $2,500 for the Defi­ance County Ag Soci­ety through America’s Farm­ers Grow Com­mu­ni­ties. Sheri Schliesser has been selected as a win­ner in America’s Farm­ers Grow Com­mu­ni­ties, spon­sored by the Mon­santo Fund. The pro­gram enrolls farm­ers for a chance to win $2,500, which is then donated to …