News

Flames early Fri­day morn­ing destroyed a home and vehi­cle in Steuben County about 15 min­utes from Angola. Four peo­ple who were in the home at the time the fire broke out, were all able to escape safely. Stephanie Hol­loway and her hus­band, Jason, along with their two chil­dren, 2 year …

A Wauseon woman has been indicted by a Ful­ton County grand jury for con­vert­ing money from a Cub Scout pack to her own use. 42 year old Kathryn Fau­verr was charged fol­low­ing a four week inves­ti­ga­tion by police who say she embezzeled more than $1500 from Cub Scout Pack 8’s …

Sher­iff Steve Towns met with the Williams County May­ors’ Asso­ci­a­tion on Wednes­day night. The Sher­iff told the group that con­cealed carry per­mit requests sky­rock­eted in 2013 after the Sandy Hook school shoot­ing and the push for gun-control leg­is­la­tion after­wards. He also told the group that he’s assigned one deputy as …

Thirty-three peo­ple on Tinora High School’s spring break trip to Ger­many have had their flight can­celled due to a work­ers’ strike in Ger­many. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, the group will remain stranded in Frank­fort for an extra day after hun­dreds of flights sched­uled at Ger­man air­ports were can­celled when …

Dri­vers in Pauld­ing County will soon see road crews out there, who will be doing mea­sur­ing and mak­ing plans for the 16 miles of resur­fac­ing work that will get under­way later this year. It’s going to be a pricey job, with an esti­mated price tag of $1.1 mil­lion. The county …

Joe Nester, owner/consultant with Nester Ag Man­age­ment at Bryan, has been named the 2014 Cer­ti­fied Crop Advi­sor of the Year. The award, spon­sored by DuPont Pio­neer, rec­og­nizes indi­vid­u­als who deliver excep­tional cus­tomer ser­vice for farmer clients in the areas of nutri­ent man­age­ment, soil and water man­age­ment, inte­grated pest man­age­ment and …

There will be an Amer­i­can Red Cross blood drive in Henry County at the Lib­erty Cen­ter High School from 1–7 p.m. on Mon­day. The com­mu­nity drive is open to the pub­lic. To sched­ule an appoint­ment, call 800-RED-Cross.

The board of direc­tors of Quadco met in a plan­ning ses­sion on Tues­day and dis­cussed the empha­sis being placed on com­mu­nity employ­ment and inte­gra­tion for indi­vid­u­als with dis­abil­i­ties across the coun­try and in the state of Ohio. The board learned that deci­sions by the Depart­ment of Jus­tice and Cen­ters for …

Defi­ance City Coun­cil met Tues­day night and with two mem­bers not mak­ing the meet­ing, coun­cil let lie five ordi­nances, includ­ing one to estab­lish an endowed fund for the Andrew Tut­tle Museum. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, Defiance’s annex­a­tion efforts started to become more aggres­sive last year. Affected prop­erty own­ers out­side …

In Hol­gate, vil­lage lead­ers have approved some changes to the vil­lage tree ordi­nance. The vil­lage will no longer plant trees in the right-of-way of any plot­ted street. Res­i­dents who want to plant a tree in the right-of-way in front of their res­i­dence may do so, but first they need a …