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Record prices were paid this year at the Ful­ton County Fair at the junior fair live­stock sale. This is where buy­ers typ­i­cal pay well over mar­ket value as a dona­tion to the pro­gram and an incen­tive for the kids to con­tinue with rais­ing live­stock. Com­bined total sales for live­stock were …

Defi­ance County Com­mis­sion­ers will open bids tomor­row from con­trac­tors who want to ren­o­vate the Defi­ance cour­t­house. If the con­tract is awarded quickly, all the coun­try offices which inhabit the cour­t­house now, the Clerk of courts, the Pro­bate and juve­nile court and the com­mon pleas court, will move to tem­po­rary offices …

The Williams County Fair con­tin­ues today. They call it Two Wheeled Tues­day and motor­cy­cles get in for 5 dol­lars. From noon to 3 is the Kids fish­ing Derby and har­ness rac­ing starts at the grand­stand at 6pm.

One per­son was charged with dri­ving with­out a license in a car acci­dent at the Foun­tain Park Inn and Vil­las assisted liv­ing senior com­mu­nity Sat­ur­day. Bryan police say 85 year-old Clarence Brown­ing Jr., who lives at Foun­tain Park, was dri­ving his vehi­cle into the park­ing lot when he lost con­trol …

Williams County offi­cials are con­tem­plat­ing the impact of the pos­si­ble defec­tion of Toledo and Lucas County from the Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio. The CCNO put out the alarm that Lucas county and Toledo are think­ing about pulling out and build­ing their own jail that could house more than a …

The inves­ti­ga­tion con­tin­ues into the Sun­day crash that killed a Defi­ance woman and injured 6 oth­ers. The Ohio High­way Patrol says a Chevy Impala dri­ven by 22 year-old Micayla Fitzsim­mons of Defi­ance was head­ing east on Stein­maier Road when it crashed a stop sign and was T-boned by a north­bound …

Ohio State is adding a rarely-played, but pop­u­lar, oppo­nent to its future foot­ball sched­ule but the games won’t hap­pen for 8 years from now. The Buck­eyes announced they will play Notre Dame in a home-and-home series in 2022 and 2023.

The Ful­ton County Fair Board is try­ing to find a draw to next year’s fair as good as Lee Brice and Cole Swindell and the doo­bie Broth­ers, after set­ting records this year. Atten­dance on Sat­ur­day before last was more than 62 thou­sand and on Sun­day it was more than 63 …

Deputies in Henry County say the crash that killed a Napoleon man is under inves­ti­ga­tion but are inclined to find it an acci­dent and it is unlikely charges will be filed. 26 year-old Bran­don West­hoven was walk­ing on State Route 109 in Lib­erty Town­ship in the dark at 10pm, when …

A Napoleon woman was injured Fri­day in a one-car crash. 56 year-old Beth Mar­shall lost con­trol of her car on Ohio 18 in Hol­gate and crashed into a util­ity pole. She was taken by Hol­gate EMS to Henry County Hos­pi­tal, where her con­di­tion was not disclosed.