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Career Center Cosmetology Salon To Open To The Public

Accord­ing to infor­ma­tion obtained from Four County Career Cen­ter, the Cos­me­tol­ogy Salon will open to the pub­lic on Octo­ber 2. Clinic hours this year are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Thurs­day and Fri­day. Walk-ins and appoint­ments are accepted, how­ever no appoint­ments or cus­tomers will be accepted after 1 p.m. …

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Suicide Attempt Leads To Arrest

Police say a reported sui­cide attempt led to an arrest with felony charges on Tues­day. It all began accord­ing to police, when 38 yea rold Duane Perez of Pleas­ant Street in Mont­pe­lier, threat­ened to swal­low a whole bot­tle of uniden­ti­fied med­ica­tions. Offi­cers showed up, and that’s when Perez began kick­ing …

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Man Killed In Explosion While Welding — Two-Year-Old Injured

A man from Cecil is dead fol­low­ing an explo­sion and barn fire on Pauld­ing County Road 8. It hap­pened on Sun­day morn­ing just before 11. Offi­cials say 25 year old Mike Froelich was weld­ing in the bed of a pickup truck near the fuel tank when the tank exploded. Froelich’s …

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Quadco Financial Picture A Bit Brighter

The Finan­cial fore­cast looks a bit brighter at Quadco. Accord­ing to a press release we received from Quadco on Tues­day, while not­ing there was still a ways to go, Quadco exec­u­tives say they have seen some bet­ter finan­cial news in recent days. While the state­ments still show a loss, the …

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NSCC Terminates Staff

At a recent spe­cial meet­ing of The North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Board of Trustees, fol­low­ing an exec­u­tive ses­sion, two res­o­lu­tions were approved. The board accepted the res­ig­na­tions of Wendy Scheurich, full-time cus­to­dian; Paula Fisher, full-time cus­to­dian; and Robin Diaz, full-time cus­to­dial super­vi­sor. The board approved the ter­mi­na­tions of full-time cus­to­di­ans …

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Bomb Threat At Dollar Tree

Not a lot of infor­ma­tion is being released yet, but Defi­ance Police are say­ing that that they are inves­ti­gat­ing a bomb threat that was called in yes­ter­day after­noon involv­ing the Dol­lar Tree Store in the North­towne Mall. Police report that offi­cers received word of the threat just after 2 Tues­day …

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CCNO Concerned About Possible Pull-Away

Offi­cials will look into the finan­cial impact if one or more juris­dic­tions pull away from the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio regional jail although one Lucas County com­mis­sioner repeat­edly said no final deci­sions have been made. Accord­ing to a press release from CCNO, dur­ing a spe­cial hour-long meet­ing of the …

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HIghway Patrol Investigating Fatal Crash

Troop­ers with the Ohio High­way Patrol are inves­ti­gat­ing a fatal crash that occurred Mon­day morn­ing around 8 on US-224 in Van Wert County. A vehi­cle dri­ven by 18 year old Matthew Niemeyer was west­bound on U.S. 224 when he missed a curve, ran off the road, and then hit a …

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Drive Underway To Pay For Library Roof

The Williams County Pub­lic Library in Bryan has a leaky roof. Fol­low­ing last win­ter, the library suf­fered numer­ous roof leaks in the Main Library build­ing and the Local His­tory Cen­ter, one of which caused a small fire in the ceil­ing that forced the library to close for a day. How­ever, …

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NCC Meeting Today

A spe­cial meet­ing of the North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Board of Trustees will be held today at noon in the McDougle Cen­ter. The board will go into exec­u­tive ses­sion to con­sider the dis­missal of pub­lic employ­ees and to review col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing strate­gies. Accord­ing to a news release from the col­lege, …

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