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Demand is up at some local food pantries, and that’s trou­ble­some news. The Bryan Times reports that Open Hands Car­ing Hearts wor­ship cen­ter, the site of a food give­away on Tues­day night, was filled with peo­ple eager to get their hands on boxes of food such as grapes, bread, meat, …

A two-vehicle crash Wednes­day morn­ing in Put­nam County left one man dead. I hap­pened on Ohio 115 near Put­nam County Road M in Union Town­ship just before 5:30 yes­ter­day morn­ing, when a trac­tor trailer dri­ven by 36 year old Shane Baker of Fre­mont, Indi­ana was attempt­ing to back into a …

It’s going to be fun for the entire fam­ily when the Williams County fair begins Sat­ur­day, start­ing with a cham­pi­onship rodeo. Other events planned this year include lots of coun­try music, and great enter­tain­ment. The fair will run through Sept. 13. Admis­sion to the fair is $5 with chil­dren age …

Edger­ton Coun­cil this week, approved the third read­ing of an ordi­nance autho­riz­ing a con­tract for data pro­cess­ing soft­ware, train­ing, con­ver­sion, instal­la­tion and related hard­ware. The new sys­tem will be installed before the end of the year. Coun­cil also passed the final read­ing of a res­o­lu­tion autho­riz­ing an appli­ca­tion for par­tic­i­pa­tion …

It’s going to be fun for the entire fam­ily when the Williams County fair begins Sat­ur­day, start­ing with a cham­pi­onship rodeo. Other events planned this year include lots of coun­try music, and great enter­tain­ment. Coun­try artist Dustin Lynch will per­form on Sun­day. Admis­sion to the show is $18 for grand­stand …

With sum­mer pretty much behind us already, and Labor Day now in the rear view mir­ror, thoughts are, whether we want them to or not, turn­ing to the colder months ahead. Some com­mu­ni­ties in our area are now find­ing out that the cost of road salt has sky­rock­eted. For instance, …

Steuben County Com­mis­sion­ers on Tues­day, rejected a request from two county employ­ees who asked that their names be removed from the county web site. It all began when a threat made against a Steuben County judge prompted a review of the county’s pol­icy in July about remov­ing names. After that, …

A for­mer Wauseon City Coun­cil­man pleaded no con­test Tues­day to a felony count of theft in office for steal­ing county prop­erty while he was Ful­ton County’s inspec­tor of weights and mea­sures. 62 year old Fred Allen allegedly stole unspec­i­fied “prop­erty or ser­vices” owned by the county. Allen was a mem­ber …

The Pet­tisville Local Board of Edu­ca­tion has informed us that they plan to hold a spe­cial meet­ing on Thurs­day morn­ing at 7:30 in the east con­fer­ence room at the school. There will only be one item on the agenda of the early morn­ing meet­ing, and that is the approval of …

In Pauld­ing County Court, an Oak­wood woman was sen­tenced for OVI. Rose­mary Hall was slapped with a $525 fine and 20 days in jail for the offense. Hall may attend DIP pro­gram in lieu of three jail days. In addi­tion, com­mu­nity con­trol was also ordered, along with 30 hours of …