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The Defi­ance Fire Depart­ment is get­ting almost $10,000 in fed­eral grant money. $9,595 to be exact, accord­ing to U.S. Sen­a­tor Sher­rod Brown’s office. The money will be used for oper­a­tions and safety, and is being pro­vided through a grant by the U.S. Depart­ment of Home­land Security’s Fed­eral Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency …

What started out as an appar­ent big loss to the com­mu­nity, has instead, turned into some­thing very pos­i­tive. The trans­for­ma­tion of the for­mer Orchard Hills Coun­try Club is pretty much com­plete. A lit­tle more than a year ago, the for­mer pri­vate course re-opened as a pub­lic course, and the oper­a­tors …

Wauseon has been awarded $300,000 in grant money for a down­town revi­tal­iza­tion project. The Ful­ton County Com­mis­sion­ers were informed of the award in the com­mu­nity devel­op­ment block grant pro­gram. Prop­erty own­ers can now apply for funds to make upgrades to their build­ings in down­town Wauseon. Wauseon was cho­sen out of …

There’s a new dog in town… The Ful­ton County Sheriff’s Office now has a new K-9. The dog’s name is Mag­gie, and she is a 2-year old Ger­man shep­herd, who is being han­dled by Deputy Jeremy Simon. Fol­low­ing six weeks of ini­tial train­ing, Mag­gie began her duties with the Sheriff’s …

In Defi­ance, the pur­chase of a dump truck may now be put off for at least a year. The Cres­cent News reports that an ordi­nance allow­ing the pur­chase of a 2015 tan­dem axle cab and truck chas­sis, dump bed and assem­bly ser­vices was let lie at this week’s coun­cil meet­ing …

Repub­li­can U.S. Rep. Bob Latta will hold a pub­lic cyber­se­cu­rity sem­i­nar from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. next Tues­day at Defi­ance College’s Schomberg Audi­to­rium. The FBI and Cen­tra­Comm of Find­lay will also be par­tic­i­pat­ing. Sem­i­nar top­ics will include pro­tect­ing against online iden­tify theft and pre­vent­ing intel­lec­tual prop­erty theft, phish­ing, attacks …

The first ever “Hogs for Dogs” poker run to ben­e­fit the ani­mals at the Fort Defi­ance Humane Soci­ety is this Sat­ur­day at Napoleon Harley-Davidson. The run is open to all makes and mod­els of bikes, with reg­is­tra­tion set to start at 10 a.m., and the first bike out at 11 …

Some major enter­tain­ment is lined up for the Defi­ance County Fair in Hicksville. An open­ing day per­for­mance by leg­endary rock band Foghat will kick things off this year. You might remem­ber their hit… “Slow Ride“ Admis­sion to the 137th Defi­ance County Fair is $5 for adults and $3 for chil­dren …

Are you a cus­tomer of Farm­ers and Mer­chants State Bank? If so, you should be on the alert for a poten­tial scam, in which bank cus­tomers have been get­ting auto­mated phone calls, in which they are told that their debit or credit card accounts have been locked. The cus­tomer is …

A man from Bryan, among a group of four arrested on metham­phet­a­mine charges in drug last April near Hamil­ton was sen­tenced to 25 years behind bars Mon­day in Steuben Supe­rior Court. 34-year-old Joseph Cotrell, in a plea agree­ment, admit­ted to a felony charge of aid­ing in the man­u­fac­ture of meth. …