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This year’s Hobo Festival will be held at the Wauseon Depot…this Saturday, from 4-7 p.m. The event will feature a hobo dinner, activities and entertainment. The Wauseon Depot is located at along Depot St. Built in 1896, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the current depot is …

Movies on the big screen will return to the Northtowne Mall in Defiance. Phoenix Theatres announced it has signed a long-term lease to bring movies back to the mall’s theater, which had its last showing in June. The Michigan-based theater chain plans to spend $1.1 million dollars to refurbish the …

Williams County commissioners Monday gave their approval to apply for funding for the county to help homeowners with lead removal. Liz Keel and Dottie Vollmar of the Maumee Valley Planning Organization…asked the board for approval to apply for $30,000 dollars in Community Housing Impact and Preservation program grant funding. Applications …

The Swanton Village Council gives final approval to formation of a economic development commission…while approving pay raises for village employees. Duties of the commission would include making recommendations on matters relating to improvement of sound economic growth and business development in the village…examining opportunities for fostering an attractive climate for …

A Montpelier fire truck received an upgrade when it was in the shop recently for repairs. Fire Chief Brian Fritsch told the village council last week that truck 67…a pumper tanker…got a new frame but also a tandem axle during a recent repair. He said the department took control of …

A judge temporarily blocked Ohio’s ban on virtually all abortions…again pausing a law that took effect after federal abortion protections were overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in June. The decision means abortions through 20 weeks’ gestation can continue for now, in keeping with state law in place before the …

The Defiance County Commissioners have joined the cries of dissent to the AquaBounty facility proposed for Pioneer. AquaBounty is planning to build a facility in Pioneer capable of producing 10,000 metric tons of genetically modified salmon. It has garnered concerns from many people in the community with many people taking …

Ohio’s efforts to curb gerrymandering are not working and voters must once again amend the constitution to take politics completely out of the process, the retiring chief justice of the state Supreme Court said Thursday. The current redistricting commission, created by constitutional amendment in 2015, has had no discernible effect …

A new member of the Wauseon Exempted Village Schools Board of Education was sworn in. Alice Allen was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Stacia Radabaugh. Radabaugh resigned due to a move out of state. Since she was the board president a change in leadership also was needed…Amy Fisher …

Local authorities held a drill in Archbold Wednesday morning…simulating a railroad tanker spill. Fulton County’s 911 dispatch center began handling a period of heavy emergency traffic around as the drill got underway. It simulated a train derailment along the Norfolk and Southern railroad near Fulton County Road 24 on Archbold’s …