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Flames tore through a pole barn and destroyed it and all of its con­tents Wednes­day after­noon. A passerby first noticed the flames just before 2 yes­ter­day after­noon at the barn on Ohio 49. By that time, the fire had already begun to destroy a trac­tor that was parked inside. The …

On Saturday..the Williams County Sher­iffs Dept and the Drug Enforce­ment Agency will give the pub­lic its 8th oppor­tu­nity in 3 years to pre­vent pill abuse and theft by rid­ding their homes of poten­tially dan­ger­ous expired and usused and unwanted pre­scrip­tion drugs..bring your pills for dis­posal to the Wms Co Sher­iffs …

Absen­tee bal­lots are now ready at the Williams County Board of Elec­tions in Bryan for the May 6th Pri­mary elec­tion. The dead­line to vote early or get an absen­tee bal­lot is Sat­ur­day, May 3rd. The board office will be open that day for spe­cial hours from 8am till noon. For …

Fire­fight­ers were called out after flames were reported at a stor­age unit facil­ity near the Ful­ton County Air­port on Mon­day evening. The call was answered around 9:30pm by crews from Wauseon, Arch­bold, Delta, and Lyons at the facil­ity on Dun­bar Drive. The fire had already involved about 75 per­cent of …

A train derail­ment spilled tons of coal just east of County Road 55 in DeKalb County near Auburn. Accord­ing to CSX, at least 12 cars derailed, and the dam­age to the tracks and the cars was exten­sive. WFFT reports that one per­son who told them they had lived next to …

After dis­cus­sions dur­ing the past two board meet­ings, mem­bers of the Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter joint Admin­is­tra­tive and Non-Profit board approved a new mis­sion state­ment that sup­ports peo­ple reach­ing their goals. The new mis­sion state­ment is now “Quadco exists to help peo­ple achieve their goals in life.“ Board mem­bers all agreed …

On Mon­day evening, the Ayersville Local Board of Edu­ca­tion, at their reg­u­larly sched­uled meet­ing, addressed pub­lic con­cerns about the upcom­ing bond issue at the May 6 pri­mary elec­tion. The Cres­cent News reports that n the bal­lot will be a 37-year, 7.86-mill bond issue com­bined with a 0.5 per­cent income tax …

The Tri-County Traf­fic Safety Part­ner­ship has announced an increased enfor­c­ment effort is under­way con­cern­ing seat belt and child restraint vio­la­tions, now until May 8th. The increased enforce­ment comes after the Angola Police Depart­ment said the Indi­ana Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Insti­tute has iden­ti­fied Steuben County as hav­ing a higher than aver­age num­ber …

In Henry County, two peo­ple who were arrested in a home break-in ear­lier this month have been bound over to the Henry County Grand Jury. 31 year old Leo Jef­fers, Jr waived his pre­lim­i­nary hear­ing on a felony charge of Break­ing and Enter­ing. 74 year old Ray­mond Barnes of Lib­erty …

Now that the third annual Henry County elec­tron­ics recy­cling roundup is his­tory, offi­cials there say 32 tons of elec­tronic recy­clables were turned-in on April 5th. The drive also raised money for the local schools. Napoleon high school col­lected over 18,000 pounds of elec­tron­ics, which gen­er­ated over $1,300, along with the …