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Enjoy a day filled with inspi­ra­tion and cre­ativ­ity dur­ing the annual Explore the Crafts event at Sauder Vil­lage. On Sat­ur­day, you can try your hand at pot­tery, draw­ing, embroi­dery, weav­ing, broom mak­ing, tin­smithing, print­ing and more while explor­ing the crafts at Ohio’s largest living-history des­ti­na­tion! Some of the other hands-on …

The Steuben County Coun­cil on Tues­day, approved a request to increase the salary of the E911 Direc­tor by $4,000 to $50,197. The approval came just one day after County Com­mis­sion­ers selected a can­di­date for the vacant posi­tion. That per­son has not been pub­licly named yet how­ever, pend­ing the accep­tance of …

Defi­ance City Coun­cil on Mon­day night, dis­cussed the prob­lem of delin­quent water bills. The Cres­cent News reports that fol­low­ing more than 90 min­utes of delib­er­a­tion, the three-member util­i­ties com­mit­tee agreed to con­sider the issue fur­ther at council’s reg­u­lar ses­sion set for July 22. Con­cerns are float­ing around about how the …

The Steuben County Sher­iffs Depart­ment has arrested a man for allegedly not reg­is­ter­ing as a sex offender. The Sher­iffs Depart­ment, after an inves­ti­ga­tion, located and arrested 28-year-old Danny Rhudy, who they say was the sub­ject of a lengthy inves­ti­ga­tion regard­ing his alleged vio­la­tion of Indiana’s Sex and Vio­lent Offender Reg­istry. …

A fam­ily in Williams County has made a goal of rais­ing aware­ness for organ dona­tion. The Cres­cent News reports that Kim and Kevin Oxen­der lost their 20-year-old son, Kaleb McLaugh­lin, on June 24 last year when the vehi­cle in which he was a pas­sen­ger ran into a util­ity pole in …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol made 749 arrests for impaired dri­ving and 318 for drug-related charges over this Fourth of July hol­i­day period, which began Thurs­day, July 3 and ended Sun­day, July 6. Dur­ing the report­ing period, the Patrol made nearly 57,000 traf­fic con­tacts, which included assist­ing more than 4,700 …

Two vehi­cles crashed Sun­day after­noon on I-69 near Auburn. Accord­ing to the DeKalb County Sher­iffs Depart­ment, the acci­dent hap­pened just before 5:00pm when a car dri­ven by 75-year-old Rena French of Fort Wayne tried to make an ille­gal U-turn into north­bound traf­fic just south of the 326 exit. Appar­ently, French …

The Bryan Sum­mer Series, pre­sented by Bryan’s First Pres­by­ter­ian Church, con­tin­ues on Wednes­day, when Myrna Grove will speak about one-room schools. It all begins tomor­row morn­ing at 10 in the church gath­er­ing area with cof­fee and a treat. The church is at 506 Oxford Drive in Bryan. Myrna Grove taught …

Accord­ing to fig­ures released by the Ohio High­way Patrol, we are com­ing off of the safest year on Ohio road­ways since they started keep­ing records. The High­way Patrol says less than 1,000 peo­ple statewide died in traf­fic crashes on Ohio’s road­ways last year, the low­est num­ber since the patrol began …

Some delays in the final work at the Defi­ance County Cour­t­house. Offices which had planned to move to tem­po­rary quar­ters this month while the cour­t­house is being ren­o­vated won’t be mov­ing now until some­time in late Sep­tem­ber. That means the planned bid open­ing date is now pushed back as well. …