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Spring on the Farm,” will be cel­e­brated at Sauder Vil­lage on Sat­ur­day, May 10 with activ­i­ties includ­ing churn­ing but­ter, mak­ing rope, stomp­ing beans, gar­den­ing and much more! Dur­ing Spring on the Farm guests can watch sheep shear­ing demon­stra­tions and there will be new baby ani­mals to visit in the his­toric …

Defi­ance has a new fire chief. City offi­cials chose a for­mer fire chief to fill the posi­tion which opened in Jan­u­ary. Bill Wilkins, who served as fire chief from 1999–2006 will now take the job that opened in Jan­u­ary when David Schmaltz announced his plans to take a job in …

From Henry County Court records… A Napoleon man has been bound over on felony charges of Bur­glary and Obstruct­ing Offi­cial Busi­ness. 31 year old Alvin Gerken of Napoleon waived his pre­lim­i­nary hear­ing on Thurs­day on both counts. He remains held on GPS house arrest. And a pre­lim­i­nary hear­ing for Chad …

It must finally be spring! Well, almost… The 2014 Farm­ers Mar­ket sea­son will open on May 22 on the north side of the cour­t­house square in Bryan. This year’s mar­ket will run until dusk and resume again at 7 a.m. Tues­day morn­ing, May 27, and run till noon. The mar­ket …

Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties on Mon­day, will kick off Drink­ing Water Week 2014 by ask­ing the ques­tion “What do you know about H2O?“ Through­out all next week, Bryan Munic­i­pal Util­i­ties and pub­lic water com­mu­ni­ties across North Amer­ica will cel­e­brate the value of water by learn­ing about the crit­i­cal role it plays …

Fire­fight­ers bat­tled flames in Defi­ance County on Wednes­day morn­ing. The Cres­cent News says fire­fight­ers from Tif­fin, Jew­ell and South Rich­land town­ships were called out just after 9 Wednes­day morn­ing to a fire on Mekus Road that orig­i­nated in a well pump build­ing, then spread to a nearby out­build­ing. The cause …

The Ohio High­way Patrol still has filed no charges against a dri­ver involved in a fatal pedes­trian crash in Ful­ton County. Inves­ti­gatos say they are still try­ing to fig­ure out exactly what hap­pend on the night of April 9th, when 30 year old Haylee Brandt was found dead in a …

The next NAMI Four County meet­ing will be held at the Defi­ance office of Maumee Val­ley Guid­ance Cen­ter at 7 p.m. Tues­day, May 6. CEO Con­nie Plan­son of Maumee Val­ley Guid­ance Cen­ter, and Rhonda Muehlfeld, cen­ter direc­tor of Health Part­ners of West­ern Ohio, will pro­vide a one year update on …

Deci­sion day is just around the cor­ner, and next Tues­day will be a big day for the peo­ple of Bryan. On Tues­day, vot­ers will decide whether to renew Bryan’s expir­ing 1/2 per­cent income tax, which funds street and sewer main­te­nance and improve­ments and the Police and Fire Com­plex. The Bryan …

A res­ig­na­tion from the Defi­ance city coun­cil… 76 year old Ward II rep­re­sen­ta­tive Larry Bryant sub­mit­ted his let­ter of res­ig­na­tion this week, stat­ing that he was step­ping down due to his age and some health issues. Bryant has been on the coun­cil since 2008, and he was re-elected to a …