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The West Unity Vil­lage Coun­cil met on Mon­day, and unan­i­mously voted to remove fis­cal offi­cer Rebecca Thatcher with­out cause. Thatcher began full time on Oct. 21 under pro­ba­tion­ary provisions,a fter pre­vi­ously work­ing as a clerk for the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion for 13 years. The Bryan Times reports that fol­low­ing …

It may still feel like win­ter, but spring clean-ups are being sched­uled around the area. The Brady Town­ship Trustees say that all old dec­o­ra­tions must be removed by April first from the ceme­ter­ies oper­ated by the town­ship for spring cleanup. Ceme­ter­ies include Flo­ral Grove, Quaker, Beatty and Rings. Any mate­ri­als …

A tele­phone line in the area has been cut and it is affect­ing emer­gency calls in some parts of our lis­ten­ing area. The Put­nam County Sheriff’s Office tells us that some peo­ple are not able to make 911 calls due to the cut line. Put­nam County 911 says most of …

A woman from Angola was hon­ored by Pres­i­dent Obama. The White House rec­og­nized Car­rie Vollmer-Sanders as a “Cham­pion of Change” for her work as the Project Direc­tor for the West­ern Lake Erie Project, where she works with farm­ers and agri­cul­ture advi­sors on nutri­ent man­age­ment. Car­rie told reporters that she never …

aPlan now… An Amer­i­can Red Cross blood drive will be held in Wauseon tomor­row, from noon-6 p.m. at the Christ United Methodist Church on North Ful­ton Street. To sched­ule an appoint­ment, call 800-RED-CROSS. And, if you miss tomorrow’s event, another Amer­i­can Red Cross blood drive will be held this Fri­day …

The Bryan Area Cham­ber of Com­merce is hold­ing the Williams County Busi­ness and Indus­try Show Tues­day at the Bryan Mid­dle School. The event tomor­row will run from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, about 40 per­cent of the pos­si­ble 150 or so ven­dors will be new …

Plan now… An Amer­i­can Red Cross blood drive will be held this Fri­day at Defi­ance Col­lege in the Ser­rick Cam­pus Cen­ter con­fer­ence room, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. To sched­ule an appoint­ment, call 800-RED-CROSS.

The Cen­tral Local School Board met on Fri­day to decide how to make up the remain­ing days that were missed this win­ter due to weather. With 11 school days to make up, the dis­trict has obtained three bliz­zard bags from the state. For those who may be won­der­ing what that …

A new bridge which would be built imme­di­ately next to the exist­ing bridge, or one angling across the River toward Farnsworth Road are just two of three options the Ohio Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion is con­sid­er­ing for the replace­ment of the Water­ville Bridge. The other option would be to replace the …

A Ful­ton County woman who was hurt in a dog-bite inci­dent last month has now been charged with crim­i­nal tres­pass­ing. 59 year old Susan Had­dad was severely on Feb. 11 by three Amer­i­can bull­dogs after she entered the house of William and Mary Stalder south of Swan­ton while they were …