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A pro­posal now being con­sid­ered in Wash­ing­ton which would decrease the amount of ethanol in the nation’s fuel sup­ply has once again heated debates about ethanol across the nation and here in our area too. The Renew­able Fuel Stan­dard was cre­ated under the Energy Pol­icy Act of 2005. In 2007, …

Lib­erty Cen­ter Local Board of Edu­ca­tion will hold a spe­cial meet­ing this evening at 6:30 to decide the site of the pro­posed new pre-kindergarten through grade 12 school. So far, the board’s site dis­cus­sions have cen­tered on two major options — Option Black, a one-story build­ing located on an unde­ter­mined …

Bryan Police report that on Fri­day after­noon, they arrested 42 year old Rod­ney R. Walker and charged him with hav­ing an Open Con­tainer and Dis­or­derly Con­duct. Walker was locked up in CCNO. Also on Fri­day, Bryan Police arrested 18 year old Cia­r­ria Mahaf­fey of Cherry Street in Bryan on a …

It’s gonna be a big week­end in our area for Christ­mas parades… Santa will be in Defi­ance today, in Napoleon’s Christ­mas parade on Sat­ur­day morn­ing and in Hicksville’s parade Sat­ur­day after­noon. Santa is all set to touch­down in down­town Defi­ance this after­noon start­ing at 4 with spe­cial events hap­pen­ing in …

Changes are com­ing for both pub­lic and pri­vate employ­ers in Ohio. In an event spon­sored by the Pauld­ing County Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment Agency, some folks who attended heard about changes at the Ohio Bureau of Work­ers’ Com­pen­sa­tion, job train­ing pro­grams and more on Wednes­day. In what is being called a big …

Another area man involved in the Arch­bold Ele­va­tor case learned his fate yes­ter­day. 61 year old Steven A. Brink was sen­tenced Mon­day in Ful­ton County Com­mon Pleas Court. Brink will spend one year on com­mu­nity con­trol in lieu of a 180-day prison sen­tence, which was sus­pended. Brink pre­vi­ously had pleaded …

The Ohio High­way Patrol says it is inves­ti­gat­ing a sin­gle vehi­cle crash that took the life of a 19-year-old man Tues­day evening. Justin J. Arce of Arch­bold was west­bound on Ful­ton County Road B near County Road 19 around 10 Tues­day night, when he lost con­trol of his vehi­cle and …

The fig­ures are just com­ing in, and so far, the begin­ning of deer sea­son hasn’t been all that bad for hunters in our area. The Ohio Depart­ment of Nat­ural Resources says North­west Ohio did lit­tle bet­ter than the rest of the state when it comes to the deer har­vest, and …

The Put­nam County His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety will be hold­ing its 28th annual Christ­mas open house at their museum. This year’s event will be held Fri­day from 6–9 p.m. and Sun­day from 1–4 p.m. Vic­to­rian doll houses will be on dis­play dur­ing the open house. This year the PCHS is spon­sor­ing a …

Tax pre­par­ers and farm­ers who file their own farm tax returns can par­tic­i­pate in Ohio State Uni­ver­sity Extension’s agri­cul­ture and nat­ural resource tax issues work­shop on Dec. 19 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The day-long webinar-based work­shop fea­tures pro­fes­sor Phil Har­ris of the Uni­ver­sity of Wis­con­sin, a lead­ing expert in farm …