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The Mov­ing Wall-Vietnam Vet­er­ans Memo­r­ial is headed to Defi­ance. The wall will be escorted into town on the morn­ing of June 12th by a pro­ces­sion of motor­cy­cles. Right now, plans call for a large U.S. flag to be draped across the street just north of the cour­t­house between aer­ial trucks …

Memo­r­ial Day is a time to remind our­selves of the mean­ing of sac­ri­fice. Across the nation, cit­i­zens were mark­ing Memo­r­ial Day with somber cer­e­monies, flag plant­i­ngs at ceme­ter­ies, parades and even bar­be­cues. Pres­i­dent Obama arrived in Afghanistan to speak with troops and visit sol­diers being treated at a base hos­pi­tal. …

Indi­ana State Police say they will be con­duct­ing a sobri­ety check­point in DeKalb County tonight. In an effort to reduce the num­ber of alcohol-related auto­mo­bile crashes, the sobri­ety check­point will tar­get the impaired dri­ver and will be uti­lized in an area iden­ti­fied as hav­ing a high num­ber of alco­hol related …

The Cor­rec­tions Cen­ter of North­west Ohio received the high­est rec­om­men­da­tions for accred­i­ta­tion by audi­tors of the Amer­i­can Cor­rec­tion Asso­ci­a­tion on Wednes­day fol­low­ing a recent three-day intense audit. CCNO Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Jim Den­nis said CCNO staff had been plan­ning for the audit for the past three years. Dur­ing the three-day event, …

The Defi­ance County fair board has reversed an ear­lier deci­sion, and has now decided to once again allow peo­ple to con­tinue rent­ing horse stalls at the fair­grounds. Last month, the board said it was going to stop rent­ing stalls and close the track for part of the spring and sum­mer, …

Fig­ures just released by the Ohio Depart­ment of Job and Fam­ily Ser­vices show the unem­ploy­ment rate in north­west Ohio drop­ping from March to April. The fig­ures released this week show north­west Ohio’s not sea­son­ally adjusted unem­ploy­ment rates were all below 6 per­cent last month, with just two coun­ties, Ful­ton and …

We told you recently about the memo­r­ial rock that was removed from in front of a Pauld­ing school after alle­ga­tions that the per­son it hon­ored, the late Don Schnepp, was accused of sex­u­ally abus­ing some stu­dents years ago. On Tues­day evening, David Kinkade of Defi­ance appeared before the Pauld­ing Exempted …

The Williams County Retired Teach­ers Asso­ci­a­tion held its first meet­ing of the year recently in Mont­pe­lier. They rec­og­nized 13 mem­bers who had vol­un­teered more than 100 hours dur­ing 2013, and rec­og­nized the fact that they donated more than 7,784 hours of vol­un­teer ser­vice to Williams County in 2013. The next …

In Wauseon, res­i­dents of one sub­di­vi­sion spoke up loud and clear at the Mon­day night meet­ing of Wauseon City Coun­cil, about how they are against a pro­posed plan for a clus­ter of rental prop­er­ties. More than 80 Pat West home­own­ers told coun­cil that they were opposed to plans by devel­oper …

Napoleon coun­cil, after months of talk­ing about the pros and cons of it, has agreed not to out­source its city dis­patch ser­vices to Henry County. Napoleon placed the issue on the May pri­mary elec­tion bal­lot seek­ing the opin­ion of vot­ers. The issue was defeated with 68 per­cent of vot­ers vot­ing …