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Two people were transported to hospitals with serious injuries Friday after sustaining stab wounds during an alleged domestic dispute in Defiance. Defiance Police rushed to a Ralston Avenue home Friday morning following a call about a domestic dispute. When they got there, they found 49 year old Scott Sisko and …

Sauder Village is looking for some creative people to help make handcrafted items for the new Heritage Shop at Sauder Village. A workday has been planned for Tuesday, March 10 – providing people an opportunity to help make items for the shop and have fellowship with others who like to …

There is a new assistant police chief in Defiance, and two officer promotions have also been announced. 43 year old Todd Shafer, a 19 year veteran of the force, will replace Jeff Mack, who retired in January. Shafer’s father, Gary, also was a police officer with the department for many …

A crash Wednes­day evening in Defi­ance County resulted in charges against a woman from Bryan. 24 year old Amy Good of Bryan was dri­ving her SUV on Ohio 15 around 7:15 Wednes­day evening, when she hit a parked vehi­cle owned by Christo­pher Ross of Bryan. Good’s SUV flipped over onto …

The Defi­ance Police Depart­ment con­tin­ues to inves­ti­gate a shoot­ing. It was at 2:07 a.m. Thurs­day, when offi­cers were called to an apart­ment build­ing in Defi­ance on Jef­fer­son Ave. for a reported shoot­ing. Three men were involved. One man was taken to Mercy Defi­ance Hos­pi­tal where he was treated and released. …

The old say­ing goes some­thing like this… “it’s in the water.” In Mont­pe­lier, that seems to be the truth. Once again, Montpelier’s water has been deemed award win­ning. It placed fourth at this year’s Berke­ley Springs Inter­na­tional Water Tast­ing event in Berke­ley Springs, West Vir­ginia. It’s not the first time …

Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter board mem­bers spent most of their reg­u­lar monthly meet­ing on Tues­day con­duct­ing their annual plan­ning ses­sion. They largely focused on how to cre­ate com­mu­nity inte­grated oppor­tu­ni­ties for the peo­ple being served at QRC over the next four years. New Cen­ters for Medicare and Med­ic­aid Ser­vices waiver require­ments …

At Monday’s Defi­ance City Board of Edu­ca­tion meet­ing, dis­cus­sion cen­tered around the con­struc­tion project that is planned, along with an emi­nent domain res­o­lu­tion which was approved. The dis­trict plans to soon sub­mit doc­u­ments to the Ohio Facil­i­ties Con­struc­tion Com­mis­sion for the schematic design phase at the grade 6–12 site. A …

The Mon­day night shoot­ing of a Ful­ton County man remains under inves­ti­ga­tion today. The vic­tim, Con Wyse, was shot in the left leg in Arch­bold along South Defi­ance Street. Wyse was first taken to the Ful­ton County Health Cen­ter in Wauseon, then trans­ferred to Mercy St. Vin­cent Med­ical Cen­ter, Toledo. …

An Amer­i­can Red Cross blood drive is sched­uled for this Thurs­day, from 3–7 p.m. at Antwerp Com­mu­nity Church of the Nazarene on South Erie Street in Antwerp. Walk ins are wel­come, but if you would like to sched­ule an appoint­ment, you can do that too by call­ing 800–733-2767.