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It’s finally offi­cial. After a lot of talk about it, Defi­ance City Coun­cil this week, finally approved a rec­om­men­da­tion to increase util­ity deposits and recon­nect fees on rental prop­er­ties. The move resulted from City offi­cials attempts to get uncol­lected funds for water and sewer ser­vice on rental prop­er­ties. Sev­eral rec­om­men­da­tions …

Mem­bers of Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Center’s Admin­is­tra­tive and Non-Profit Boards heard the yearly audit results at their reg­u­lar meet­ing on Tues­day. Jim Rensi from the Cer­ti­fied Pub­lic Account­ing firm of Lud­er­man and Konst in Defi­ance said, “It’s a clean opin­ion, an unqual­i­fied report.“ In his report, Mr. Rensi noted that the …

Law enforce­ment offi­cers in Williams, Defi­ance and Pauld­ing coun­ties say it was Face­book users that gave them a hand in locat­ing a reg­is­tered sex offender who had ille­gally moved to North­west Ohio. The Williams County Sheriff’s Office along with other area law enforce­ment offi­cers, had been search­ing the area for …

In Ful­ton County, a grand jury has handed down 15 indict­ments, includ­ing three against res­i­dents of Williams County. 34 year old Andrew S. Kendall of Bryan is charged with one count of aggra­vated traf­fick­ing in drugs and one count of aggra­vated pos­ses­sion of drugs. 28 year old Christina Karr, also …

A Pauld­ing County girl was sent to Parkview Med­ical Cen­ter in Fort Wayne Mon­day morn­ing fol­low­ing a two-vehicle crash. The 4-year-old Antwerp girl’s name has not been released by troop­ers, who say that a vehi­cle dri­ven by 27 year old Brenda Den­ni­son of Antwerp, appar­ently pulled into the path of …

The annual Antique Trac­tor Show at the Williams County Fair­grounds is adding some­thing new this year… Rib Fest. The trac­tor show is hosted each year by the Williams County Senior Fair Board. This year, they say the idea for Rib Fest orig­i­nated with the county’s local pork pro­duc­ers, who approached …

Lots of police action recently in Bryan. Bryan Police report the arrest on Fri­day of 23 year old Amberly Badillo of Bryan, who was charged with theft. She was taken to CCNO. On Sat­ur­day, police arrested Ayla Crutch­field of Bryan OH on a bench war­rant out of Bryan Munic­i­pal Court. …

You’re in for an after­noon of old-time base­ball on Sat­ur­day, July 26 as the Great Black Swamp Frogs, the Spiegel Grove Squires and the Elkhart County Rail­road­ers gather for a Vin­tage Base Ball Tour­na­ment at Sauder Vil­lage. IT’s three base­ball games being played using rules from the 1860s. This is …

The Ohio Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture issued a press release on Sun­day, stat­ing Fort Defi­ance Meats, based in Defi­ance, has issued a vol­un­tary recall for kip­pered beef prod­ucts due to a pro­cess­ing devi­a­tion, and a recall for snack sticks due to being pro­duced with­out inspection.The prod­ucts being recalled include: • Indi­vid­ual …

Some top-name enter­tain­ment is com­ing to the 2014 Ful­ton County Fair: The Doo­bie Broth­ers on Sun­day, August 31 and Lee Brice on Labor Day Mon­day. Tick­ets for these and other grand­stand shows are on sale now. New this year, the Fair is pro­vid­ing an online box office which is acces­si­ble …