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Accord­ing to the Crescent-News, the Defi­ance DAV Chap­ter plans to auc­tion off on its build­ings on March 8th as part of it’s con­tin­u­ing efforts to down­size. The 11 acres behind the build­ings have already been sold, and are planned for farm­land now. The DAV reports that they plan to con­tinue …

The search has begun for a new fire chief in Defi­ance. A meet­ing is set for Tues­day to dis­cuss replac­ing Dave Schmaltz, the for­mer fire chief who left at the end of Jan­u­ary to take a posi­tion in Bat­tle Creek, Michi­gan. Right now, Assis­tant Fire Chief Tim Bowl­ing is serv­ing …

The Ful­ton County Com­mis­sion­ers took care of paper­work that will guar­an­tee com­ple­tion of the rail spur improve­ment project in Delta. This project will help Ful­ton County pro­cess­ing make upgrades to their facil­ity, with com­ple­tion expected by the end of April. This paper­work also releases grant funds to pay Great Lakes …

Very few offi­cial details are being released so far today, but accord­ing to a press release issued by the school dis­tirct, a bomb threat was declared just after noon yes­ter­day at the Edon North­west Local schools. The school reports that safety pro­to­cols were fol­lowed accord­ing to the pro­ce­dure man­ual, and …

The Ful­ton County Sheriff’s office is report­ing a dog attack ear­lier this week. Accord­ing to the press release, a 59-year-old woman was attacked by two bull­dogs as she entered her neighbor’s house on County Road D. when the neigh­bor wasn’t home. The two dogs attacked the woman, severely bit­ing her …

The Pauld­ing County Sheriff’s office says two peo­ple ended up in the hos­pi­tal fol­low­ing a fire Tues­day at a home in Pauld­ing. The call for help came in around noon about flames shoot­ing from a home at 613 Lin­coln Ave. By the time fire­fight­ers got there, the res­i­dents had got­ten …

The woman who was acci­den­tally shot in the head by her hus­band Sun­day is still hos­pi­tal­ized. The Crescent-News says 42 year old Becky Smith of McClure was listed in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at Toledo Hos­pi­tal on Wednes­day. Accord­ing to the Henry County Sheriff’s Office, Smith was shot by a .22 rifle …

A man from Port Clin­ton was caught with child pornog­ra­phy, by a grand­mother. 39 year old Fred­er­ick Harder will now be spend­ing the next 40 years in prison after his grand­mother found child pornog­ra­phy inside a box of children’s books. The grand­mother bought the books for her grand­chil­dren from an …

This com­ing Mon­day may be Pres­i­dents Day, but for Mont­pe­lier Exempted Vil­lage Schools stu­dents, it will be just another school day. The Bryan Times reports that school board mem­bers at Tuesday’s board of edu­ca­tion meet­ing, made the deci­sion to use Mon­day as a snow make-up day. It was also learned …

The Edon Board of Edu­ca­tion met Tues­day, and it, like many other school dis­tricts across the state, and in fact, across the nation this year, is deal­ing with issues due to the wild win­ter weather. The Bryan Times reports that there have been some sched­ule changes for the remain­ing por­tion …