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The Defi­ance City Board of Edu­ca­tion met Wednes­day evening. Band direc­tor Cathy Booth told the board about the pro­posed Decem­ber, 2014, band trip to Dis­ney World in Orlando, Fla., which the board then approved. The trip would include march­ing in a Dis­ney parade and spend­ing time at the park as …

A new set of bills is set to crack down on pre­scrip­tion drug abuse in Ohio. The main goals of the new bills are to decrease the amount of painkillers being pre­scribed, keep addicts alive while get­ting dan­ger­ous drugs off the streets, and pro­vid­ing effec­tive treat­ment for proper recov­ery. For …

A for­mer Mont­pe­lier vil­lage clerk who was con­victed in 2012 of steal­ing for than $90,000 from the vil­lage, is now a free woman. Anna Marie Stark of Mont­pe­lier, was sen­tenced in Sep­tem­ber 2012 to 30 months in prison after an audit revealed that Stark made 71 fraud­u­lent billing adjust­ments, val­ued …

Two peo­ple have been bound over to the Henry County Grand Jury from Napoleon Munic­i­pal Court. 47 year old Con­stance Kelso was bound over on a felony charge of Pos­ses­sion of Drugs. Kelso waived the pre­lim­i­nary hear­ing, and was ordered to report to the court pro­ba­tion depart­ment twice a week. …

A fire heav­ily dam­aged a house in Con­ti­nen­tal Tues­day after­noon. The Put­nam County Sheriff’s Office says fire­fight­ers from Con­ti­nen­tal, Miller City and Kalida were dis­patched to the scene of a house fire at 307 E. Elm St. just past noon on Tues­day. The house report­edly sus­tained heavy dam­age. The fam­ily …

The Ful­ton County Crime Stop­pers pro­gram needs your help. On Nov. 11, Glea­son Con­struc­tion reported the theft of two exca­va­tor buck­ets from a work site. Stolen was a 48-inch dig­ging bucket and a 72-inch ditch bucket. Total loss was esti­mated at $7,500. If you have any infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing this crime …

Defi­ance City Coun­cil passed an ordi­nance Tues­day night approv­ing the bud­get fol­low­ing a third read­ing — one of 10 leg­isla­tive items approved dur­ing the final meet­ing of the year. One of those items included an emer­gency ordi­nance estab­lish­ing the budget’s new police and fire fund. Eight other ordi­nances, includ­ing one …

Each day, count­less peo­ple make a pos­i­tive impact on north­west Ohio, and the North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege Foun­da­tion is offer­ing an oppor­tu­nity to rec­og­nize and cel­e­brate those who have. The NSCC Foun­da­tion is accept­ing nom­i­na­tions for the 2014 Mak­ing a Dif­fer­ence Award in the cat­e­gories of indi­vid­ual, busi­ness and orga­ni­za­tion. …

With tem­per­a­tures in the sin­gle dig­its, the Bryan Water Depart­ment would like to encour­age res­i­dents to take the fol­low­ing pre­cau­tions to help pro­tect their water lines from freez­ing: Pro­tect exposed pipes from cold air drafts by clos­ing and seal­ing win­dows and any exposed open­ings in base­ments or crawl­spaces. Pro­vide proper …

Daniel L. Bignell Jr. was found guilty on three counts of first-degree felony rape after he entered an Alford plea Tues­day morn­ing in the Williams County Court of Com­mon Pleas. That means he still says he’s inno­cent, but admits there’s enough evi­dence for a guilty ver­dict from a jury. In …