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As part of her Mid­west book tour, author Shirley Showal­ter will be at Sauder Vil­lage next week, on Octo­ber 3 and 4, to pro­mote her new book. Guests will have an oppor­tu­nity to meet Ms. Showal­ter at an evening book sign­ing and can also attend a free lec­ture Fri­day morn­ing …

A deci­sion on whether or not to pro­ceed any fur­ther with the pro­posed ren­o­va­tion of Defi­ance County’s cour­t­house has been delayed. Offi­cials had planned to decide dur­ing county com­mis­sion­ers meet­ing Thurs­day on whether to allow a Colum­bus archi­tec­tural firm to con­tinue with the project. That deci­sion was to have been …

The Williams County Sheriff’s Office has released a state­ment say­ing that a Williams County man who had been reported miss­ing has been located. 73 year old Richard Down­ing was located by Penn­syl­va­nia State Police near New Cas­tle, Pa. after State Police there responded to a call of a dis­abled vehi­cle …

The thought of annex­a­tion of the Gen­eral Motors Defi­ance Cast­ing Oper­a­tions plant by the city of Defi­ance has gen­er­ated a less than enthu­si­as­tic response from GM offi­cials. Defi­ance is pro­vid­ing water ser­vice to the plant, and there­fore it falls under the list of prop­er­ties that the city is tar­get­ing for …

Bryan Police say they arrested a Bryan woman on Wednes­day. 48 year old Rhonda Domire of East Wil­son Street was picked up on a bench war­rant issued out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. Domire was locked up in CCNO.

A home exploded early Wednes­day morn­ing near Lib­erty Cen­ter, killing one per­son and seri­ously injur­ing another. Police say it hap­pened around 7:30 yes­ter­day morn­ing at a home on County Road 9 and the blast could be heard as far away as Ridgeville Cor­ners. 63 year old Judy Gar­wood died, and …

Fire­fight­ers from through­out the area were called out to a house fire in Defi­ance Wednes­day morn­ing. The call came in just before 4am for the blaze at 702 Har­ri­son Avenue. When crews arrived, they found heavy smoke and flames com­ing from the attic of the two story home. One per­son …

If you live in the vil­lage of Con­ti­nen­tal, you are advised to boil your water before you use it for cook­ing or drink­ing pur­poses. A boil alert was put into effect for Con­ti­nen­tal res­i­dents Wednes­day after­noon fol­low­ing a water main break in the vil­lage. The alert was issued for res­i­dents …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol says a motor­cy­clist and his wife were both injured Wednes­day when their motor­cy­cle ran off the road in Ful­ton County. 52 year old Ronald Fre­itag, Sr., was west­bound on State Rt. 120 just after noon yes­ter­day when he trav­eled off the north side of the …

More peo­ple are find­ing jobs and train­ing for them through Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter. That was the good news accord­ing to reports heard at the center’s joint board meet­ing held Tues­day. The report showed increased empha­sis being placed on com­mu­nity employ­ment for the indi­vid­u­als with dis­abil­i­ties they serve by state offi­cials …