Featured

A Defi­ance man died Mon­day evening when he drowned in a pond on his prop­erty. 64 year old Ter­rence Kid­well of Dohoney Road, was pro­nounced dead at the scene after emer­gency per­son­nel were called just after 7 Mon­day night to the Kid­well res­i­dence. The call indi­cated that there was a …

14 peo­ple have been indicted for var­i­ous crimes by a Williams County Grand Jury. 19 year old Gar­ret Wise of Defi­ance; 36 year old Damon Cook of Angola; 47 year old Duane Mur­ray of Edger­ton; 23 year old Michael Love­joy of Bryan; 20 year old Jalen Lon­go­ria of Wauseon; 28 …

The future of pro­grams often referred to as shel­tered work­shops was dis­cussed by the mem­bers of the Quadco Admin­is­tra­tive and Non-Profit Boards at their reg­u­lar meet­ing on Tues­day. Board mem­bers dis­cussed a news story about a plan in New York to phase out shel­tered work­shops in that state in the …

Mercy Defi­ance Clinic is warn­ing of fraud­u­lent phone calls being made by scam­mers claim­ing to rep­re­sent the clinic. They say scam­mers are mak­ing ran­dom calls claim­ing to be a col­lec­tion agency work­ing for Mercy Defi­ance Clinic. The callers tell the recip­i­ent that they have an over­due account bal­ance and they …

The Regional Can­cer Care Cen­ter of Angola is hold­ing free PSA prostate can­cer screen­ings on Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 5th from 8:00am until 12noon. This screen­ing will require a blood draw, but no fast­ing is required. Men between the ages of 40 and 75 are encour­aged to attend. Men under the age …

A plane crashed Mon­day after­noon in Williams County. Accord­ing to the Williams County Sheriff’s Office, Sam Santa Rita had just taken off in his sin­gle engine plane from his pri­vate airstrip near Edger­ton, when the air­craft crashed into the woods. The plane was totaled, but amaz­ingly, Santa Rita was able …

Seri­ous doubts are now aris­ing about the via­bil­ity of a com­mu­nity pool in Hol­gate. Offi­cials say the pool facil­ity needs work, it’s under-used, and quite pos­si­bly far enough beyond repair that it may sim­ply be shut down. The Henry County Health Depart­ment says the pool needs repairs in order to …

Tires from pas­sen­ger cars and pickup trucks, with­out rims, will be accepted at no charge at the Ful­ton County Trans­fer Sta­tion, on County Road 12 on Sept. 27 and Oct. 25, from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. There is a limit of four tires per house­hold, and no com­mer­cial or busi­ness tires …

The North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Board of Trustees has given notice that they will hold a spe­cial meet­ing on Wednes­day, at 12:00 noon in the McDougle Cen­ter (Room A101C). The board plans to go into exec­u­tive ses­sion to con­sider the dis­missal of pub­lic employ­ees. They have reported that action may …

Defi­ance Ele­men­tary stu­dents are receiv­ing an Ohio Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion grant. The ODE has noti­fied the Defi­ance City School Dis­trict, that it received a $600,000 21st Cen­tury Grant for before and after­school grade K-5 edu­ca­tional pro­grams. The funds will be used for staff, sup­plies, tech­nol­ogy and trans­porta­tion expenses, at the …