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A memo­r­ial rock that had been in front of Pauld­ing Mid­dle School in honor of for­mer teacher Don Schnepp has been removed. Last month, the Pauld­ing Exempted Vil­lage Board of Edu­ca­tion was asked to remove the rock after a for­mer stu­dent told the board that he was raped as an …

A Steuben County man is now charged with a mur­der that took place almost 13 years ago. 4 9-year-old Mark Fritz of But­ler was arrested fol­low­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion into the death of 70-year-old Samuel Hunter who was mur­dered and robbed in his home back in June of 2001. A pre-trial …

Free boat-safety equip­ment inspec­tions are now being offered through next Fri­day, May 23 by the Ohio Depart­ment of Nat­ural Resources in Lucas, Henry, and Wood coun­ties. In Lucas County, inspec­tors will be at Meinke Marina from 5 to 7 p.m. Fri­day and at Cullen Park Boat Ramp from 1 to …

The National Weather Ser­vice has issued a flood watch for a good part of our area. On Wednes­day, the weather ser­vice said Defi­ance, Henry, Ful­ton, Pauld­ing and Put­nam coun­ties were all under a flood watch. Accord­ing to the weather ser­vice, rain­fall up until about noon today will cause some area …

A blown trans­former turned out the lights for a num­ber of homes and busi­nesses in Defi­ance on Wednes­day. The trans­former mal­func­tioned around 10:30 yes­ter­day morn­ing on Qual­ity Drive, affect­ing as many as 500 cus­tomers. Traf­fic lights in the area were also affected, and city work­ers rushed in to direct traf­fic …

Put­nam County is get­ting $100,000 from the Ohio Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency for a glass recy­cling ini­tia­tive which will kick off on June first. The money will be used to pur­chase glass col­lec­tion bins and roll-off con­tain­ers and upgrade the present trans­fer sta­tion. The announce­ment Wednes­day came fol­low­ing a year in …

A teenager has pleaded guilty in Angola to con­spir­acy to com­mit mur­der. 19 year old Tyler Lee Biggs faced charges of mur­der and con­spir­acy to com­mit mur­der, both felonys that could have put him away for as long as 50 years. If a judge accepts the guilty plea, the mur­der …

The Ohio High­way Patrol says a woman was seri­ously injured when the car she was dri­ving crashed on State Rt. 66 near Arch­bold Wednes­day. 19 year old Ashtyn Baker was dri­ving north near mile­post 9 in Ful­ton County’s Franklin Town­ship at about 1:15 yes­ter­day morn­ing when she drove off the …

A job well done by local shop­pers! Chief Super­mar­kets held Good Neigh­bor Day April 22, and accord­ing to the Bryan Times, patrons of the store here in Bryan did a won­der­ful job con­tribut­ing to north­west Ohio fam­i­lies who need assis­tance. Chief, on April 22nd, agreed to donate a per­cent­age of …

The sixth annual Motor­cy­cle Aware­ness Day Parade is set to take place this Sat­ur­day morn­ing at 9:30 in Defi­ance. May is Motor­cy­cle Safety Aware­ness Month, and the parade and events this week­end will pro­vide some­thing for every­one, whether you ride or not. In the past, the parade has drawn more …