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A Wauseon woman was sen­tenced to 3 years of com­mu­nity con­trol and ordered to pay just under $8300 in resti­tu­tion to the Wauseon Schools after being sen­tenced yes­ter­day in the Ful­ton County Com­mon Pleas Court. 38 year old Angela Spadafore pre­vi­ously pled guilty to Theft in office. It was dis­cov­ered …

Jew­ell Town­ship and South Rich­land fire­fight­ers were called to a woods and grass fire north of Defi­ance, at 8:44 a.m. Mon­day. The Cres­cent News reports that the fire spread from a burn bar­rel due to high winds at the res­i­dence of Harold Stef­fel. The National Weather Ser­vice reported that the …

Accord­ing to infor­ma­tion released on Tues­day by the Ohio Depart­ment of Nat­ural Resources, hunters in our state donated more than 1,000 white-tailed deer to local food banks to ben­e­fit Ohioans in need dur­ing the 2014–15 hunt­ing sea­son. Food banks received approx­i­mately 50,850 pounds of veni­son and 203,400 meals for needy …

The Ful­ton County Soil and Water Con­ser­va­tion Dis­trict is now tak­ing orders for its annual fish fin­ger­ling dis­tri­b­u­tion pro­gram for stock­ing ponds. The dead­line to order is May 8, with pick-up held May 12 at the Ful­ton County Fair­grounds. Pur­chasers will be noti­fied of their pick-up times after all orders …

Bryan res­i­dents are invited to join Bryan City Schools to cel­e­brate the start of con­struc­tion on the new middle/high school. The project is the begin­ning phase of a mas­ter plan that will unite all 2,000 stu­dents, from preschool through grade 12, on one cam­pus for the first time in the …

In Henry County, the com­mis­sion­ers are talk­ing about enter­prise zone agree­ments and Tax Incen­tive Review Coun­cil rec­om­men­da­tions. Last week, the com­mis­sion­ers met and dis­cussed the future of enter­prise zone agree­ments. They also reviewed and approved a writ­ten Henry County Com­mu­nity Improve­ment Cor­po­ra­tion agree­ment to work col­lab­o­ra­tively on behalf of Henry …

SAuder Vil­lage is open­ing for the 2015 sea­son on Tues­day, April 28. New this year guests will be able to enjoy sweet treats at Stella Leona Choco­lates & Cof­fees at Sauder Vil­lage. Another high­light of the 2015 sea­son is the open­ing of the Grime Home­stead. Slated to open mid-June, the …

Ohio Attor­ney Gen­eral Mike DeWine is warn­ing Ohioans to beware of threat­en­ing calls, in which the caller says they are from the IRS as the April 15 tax fil­ing dead­line approaches. In the past week along, the Ohio Attor­ney General’s Office has received more than 100 reports of IRS-related scams …

The first read­ing of an ordi­nance to increase the income tax in Stryker by .3% was knocked down by a vote of four to two. If approved through three read­ings, the issue would have been on the Novem­ber bal­lot to increase the cur­rent 1.5 per­cent vil­lage income tax by 0.3 …

A Defi­ance County jury on Fri­day, decided that the widow of a for­mer Gen­eral Motors employee who died of lung can­cer is enti­tled to work­ers’ com­pen­sa­tion ben­e­fits. It took a jury about four and a half hours to reach their deci­sion, in which they ruled that Fayrene Den­nis of Arkansas, …