News

The rash of house fires in our area con­tin­ued Thurs­day morn­ing when flames were reported at a home County Road 18.75 between Stryker and Bryan. The call came in around 8:45 yes­ter­day morn­ing. When fire­fight­ers arrived, they found the flames con­tained to a first-floor bed­room. Ice on the roads and …

Another roof col­lapse Thurs­day in Napoleon caused an ammo­nia leak and resulted in the evac­u­a­tion of sur­round­ing busi­nesses. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, it hap­pened yes­ter­day just before 1pm at Clover­leaf Cold Stor­age on Inde­pen­dence Drive when the roof col­lapsed near the dock­ing bay. Police say the area was evac­u­ated …

An explo­sion that could be heard and felt by some peo­ple as much as four miles away, lev­eled a Steuben County home Thurs­day. No one was in the home at the time, but a dog that was inside was res­cued by a neigh­bor. Police say it hap­pened at the home …

Heavy rains and melt­ing snow due to the lit­tle taste of spring we have expe­ri­enced are now caus­ing major prob­lems through­out the area in the form of flood­ing streets and roads and clogged drains. The heavy rains and melt­ing is also caus­ing con­cerns about river flood­ing. Streets in many res­i­den­tial …

We’ve had sub-zero tem­per­a­tures. We’ve had near record, or in some cases, record snow­fall. Now, the win­ter weather that just keeps com­ing is toss­ing another thing at us. The National Weather Ser­vice is now pre­dict­ing tem­per­a­tures to hit 50-degrees or bet­ter today. That’s good news if you want to warm …

Here come the com­put­ers! The Millcreek-West Unity Board of Edu­ca­tion on Tues­day approved an agree­ment to pro­vide some com­put­ers for stu­dents. The dis­trict agreed to get 300 Chrome­books, enough for every stu­dent in grades 7–12. The total amount of the lease is $94,291, with the first year being paid through …

Defi­ance City Coun­cil met on Tues­day night. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, a Defi­ance munic­i­pal ordi­nance that is the sub­ject of a law­suit filed by the Amer­i­can Civil Lib­er­ties Union on behalf of a local group was amended at that meet­ing. The suit is pend­ing in the U.S. North­ern Dis­trict …

Flames heav­ily dam­aged a rural Angola home on Mon­day after­noon. Fire­fight­ers say when they arrived, they saw heavy smoke com­ing out of the roof. They also say heavy winds ham­pered fire­fight­ing efforts. No other details have been made avail­able and no dam­age esti­mate has yet been given. Also, no word …

The Henry County Com­mis­sion­ers have receive an update on the project planned for improve­ments to the heat­ing, ven­ti­la­tion and air con­di­tion­ing sys­tem at the county cour­t­house. Palmer Con­ser­va­tion told the com­mis­sion­ers that project will begin on March 10th, and should be fin­ished about one month later. The improve­ments should make …

Word came down late Tues­day after­noon from The Toledo Police Depart­ment that the death of Brandi Gonyer-Boaston was a homi­cide. The Bryan Times reports that the Lucas County Coroner’s Office offi­cially listed the cause of death as being due to asphyx­i­a­tion, and there­fore, a homi­cide. The body of 28 year …