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At a spe­cial meet­ing Mon­day, the Antwerp Vil­lage Coun­cil approved twin liquor per­mits for the River Street Mar­ket in that com­mu­nity. The owner of the for­mer IGA in the vil­lage told coun­cil that the mar­ket had yet to make a profit. So… in order to cor­rect that sit­u­a­tion, he is …

The Patrick Henry Local Board of Edu­ca­tion accepted the res­ig­na­tion of high school foot­ball coach Bill Insel­mann dur­ing its reg­u­lar monthly meet­ing Mon­day. Insel­mann has served as the var­sity foot­ball coach at Patrick Henry for 23 years. The board also accepted the res­ig­na­tion of bus mechanic Mark Wil­helm who is …

A two-vehicle col­li­sion Mon­day evening sent one dri­ver to the hos­pi­tal. The Henry County Sheriff’s office says the acci­dent hap­pened just after 6pm at the inter­sec­tion of U.S. 24 and County road P, west of Napoleon. 25 year old Lynette Baden­hop of Napoleon report­edly made a left turn and ran …

Montpelier’s 2014 bud­get is now a done deal. Mem­bers of the Mont­pe­lier Vil­lage coun­cil sus­pended the sec­ond read­ing and passed the 2014 appro­pri­a­tion bud­get at Monday’s meet­ing. Total appro­pri­a­tions for 2014 amounts to $17,307,863 (from $14,994,668 in 2013). Garbage pickup the week of Thanks­giv­ing is as fol­lows… Those who nor­mally …

One vote really can make a dif­fer­ence… Accord­ing to a release by school offi­cials, a recount Mon­day morn­ing showed that the Millcreek-West Unity Local Schools safety and secu­rity levy failed by a sin­gle vote. The final vote count came in at 355 for and 356 against the levy. The school …

Faith shines through… Paris­hon­ers of St. Bar­bara Catholic Church in Cloverdale showed up Sun­day morn­ing with fold­ing chairs and a bor­rowed instru­ment for an emo­tional first Mass fol­low­ing the tor­nado that destroyed much of the vil­lage of Cloverdale on Novem­ber 17th, includ­ing their church. The storm left sev­eral homes in …

The Steuben County Sheriff’s Office says a 28-year-old Angola woman was crit­i­cally injured Sun­day when her car rear-ended a semi and became lodged under the truck’s trailer on Inter­state 69 near the Angola exit. The crash, which closed the high­way for three hours, hap­pened when the semi, dri­ven by 23-year-old …

A fed­eral Con­gres­sional bill is in the works to offer finan­cial incen­tives to states to stock­pile epi­neph­rine at schools. Epi­neph­rine is used for severe aller­gic reac­tions to food aller­gies and insect bites — the type of reac­tion that can cause death in an aller­gic per­son. Epi­neph­rine is given to the …

Bryan Police say that on Sun­day, they arrested 25 year old Kyle I. Fields of 1120 Buf­falo Rd, Bryan. Police say Fields was stopped after run­ning through a stop sign. He was then arrested for OVI, and then released.

A Hav­i­land man is dead after being involved in a one-vehicle crash Thurs­day. The Ohio High­way Patrol says 63 year old Tim­o­thy Palte died Fri­day of injuries he received in the craxh on Ohio 613 near Pauld­ing County Road 95 last Thurs­day after­noon around 5 o’clock. Police say Palte’s vehi­cle …