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The Wauseon Public Library will host April health screenings. The American Red Cross will be offering a CPR/AED class on April 22 from 6-8 p.m. in the library’s second-floor meeting room. To register, call the Red Cross office or visit www.redcross.org. Pre-registration is required.

On April 24, the Fulton County Health Center will offer a cholesterol screening in the library’s second-floor meeting room from 4-7 p.m. Registration is not required for the screening. Screening and assessment will include testing total HDL cholesterol ratios, blood sugar or glucose levels, and blood pressure readings. Fasting is …

The Henry County Board of Health recently was notified of three grant awards. Officials say about $72,000 will be provided in the ‘safety net dental grant. More than $77,000 was awarded in the ‘public health preparedness’ program, while another $108,900 will help fund the ‘reproductive health and wellness’ program in …

A Wauseon man pled guilty in Fulton County Common Pleas Court, to possession of heroin. 27 year old Christopher Blake was placed on community control for two years, ordered to abide by a curfew, and his driver’s license was suspended for six months.  

Bryan Police picked up 22 year old Bri­tani M. Smith of E. High St in Bryan on a bench war­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court for fail­ing to appear for pre­trial on an OVI and Pos­ses­sion of Mar­i­juana charge. She’s vir­tu­ally guar­an­teed to appear at her next appoint­ment with the …

The gov­er­nor offi­cially kicked off what is being billed as the most ambi­tious plan ever for the state’s road con­struc­tion sea­son Wednes­day after­noon. The governor’s Jobs and Trans­portaion Plan will use $2.5 bil­lion from Ohio Turn­pike bond rev­enue to fund major con­struc­tion projects all over the state. Locally, Williams County …

Some res­i­dents of Defi­ance and Henry Coun­ties are upset over trains block­ing cross­ings along the CSX rail line which passes through Hicksville, Sher­wood Hol­gate, Ham­ler and Desh­ler. The Cres­cent News reports that those affected say the block­ings have resulted in many peo­ple hav­ing to travel miles out of their way …

A cash reward is now being offered to help gen­er­ate new leads in an armed rob­bery with a unique look­ing sus­pect that hap­pened March 28th. It hap­pened at the Wal­greens Phar­macy in Adrian. A sur­veil­lance image shows the lone sus­pect walk­ing directly to the phar­macy counter. He then claimed to …

North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege nurs­ing stu­dents are host­ing a free Health Fair tomor­row [THURSDAY] from 9:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. The event will fea­ture free blood pres­sure screen­ings and derma scan­ner screen­ings to help iden­tify skin can­cer risks. Rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the Repro­duc­tive Health Clinic will be in atten­dance as well. The Health …

Bryan Police say on Tues­day, they arrested 30 year old Joshua L. Singer of S. Lynn St., Bryan, on a bench war­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court for fail­ing to appear. He was taken to court. No other infor­ma­tion what­so­ever has been released by Bryan Police regard­ing the orig­i­nal charges …