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The gov­er­nor offi­cially kicked off what is being billed as the most ambi­tious plan ever for the state’s road con­struc­tion sea­son Wednes­day after­noon. The governor’s Jobs and Trans­portaion Plan will use $2.5 bil­lion from Ohio Turn­pike bond rev­enue to fund major con­struc­tion projects all over the state. Locally, Williams County …

Some res­i­dents of Defi­ance and Henry Coun­ties are upset over trains block­ing cross­ings along the CSX rail line which passes through Hicksville, Sher­wood Hol­gate, Ham­ler and Desh­ler. The Cres­cent News reports that those affected say the block­ings have resulted in many peo­ple hav­ing to travel miles out of their way …

A cash reward is now being offered to help gen­er­ate new leads in an armed rob­bery with a unique look­ing sus­pect that hap­pened March 28th. It hap­pened at the Wal­greens Phar­macy in Adrian. A sur­veil­lance image shows the lone sus­pect walk­ing directly to the phar­macy counter. He then claimed to …

North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege nurs­ing stu­dents are host­ing a free Health Fair tomor­row [THURSDAY] from 9:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. The event will fea­ture free blood pres­sure screen­ings and derma scan­ner screen­ings to help iden­tify skin can­cer risks. Rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the Repro­duc­tive Health Clinic will be in atten­dance as well. The Health …

Bryan Police say on Tues­day, they arrested 30 year old Joshua L. Singer of S. Lynn St., Bryan, on a bench war­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court for fail­ing to appear. He was taken to court. No other infor­ma­tion what­so­ever has been released by Bryan Police regard­ing the orig­i­nal charges …

Ayersville Local Board of Edu­ca­tion mem­bers and admin­is­tra­tors want every­one in the area to learn about a part­ner­ship with the state to fund con­struc­tion of a new pre-K through grade 12 build­ing through the Ohio Facil­i­ties Con­struc­tion Com­mis­sion. The Cres­cent News reports that there will be a ref­er­en­dum on the …

A new mem­ber was sworn in this week dur­ing a meetin of Napoleon City Coun­cil. Jef­frey Comadoll replaces Patrick McCol­ley who announced his res­ig­na­tion from coun­cil last month. In his first meet­ing, a num­ber of leg­isla­tive items were approved regard­ing the cre­ation of two new city posi­tions and the hir­ing …

Sev­eral indict­ments were handed down in Defi­ance County Court… 32 year old Krys­tal Oehler of Arch­bold was indicted for Pos­ses­sion of Cocaine, and Aggra­vated Pos­ses­sion of Drugs. 31 year old Larry Franklin of Ft. Wayne was indicted for Pro­mot­ing Pros­ti­tu­tion after pros­e­cu­tors say Franklin brought a woman to a hotel …

Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers met for their reg­u­lar meet­ing on Mon­day and approved appro­pri­a­tions and trans­fers in the county bud­get includ­ing: • $10,000 from cap­i­tal assets-machinery and equip­ment to vehi­cle main­te­nance sup­plies. • $1,640 from unap­pro­pri­ated to cap­i­tal assets-furniture and fix­tures. • $25.61 from com­pen­sa­tion and dam­ages to work­ers’ com­pen­sa­tion. • …

The Win­ter Cri­sis Pro­gram ends on April 15. The pro­gram is designed to pro­vide assis­tance to cus­tomers that are threat­ened with dis­con­nec­tion, have already been dis­con­nected, need to estab­lish new ser­vice or are in need of propane, fuel oil or any other bulk fuel. Income guide­line for the pro­gram is …