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Peo­ple have turned out in droves to help those in Cloverdale who are try­ing to recover from the dev­as­ta­tion of the recent tor­na­dos that hit there. Due to an over­whelm­ing response from peo­ple will­ing to donate cloth­ing, offi­cials in Cloverdale are ask­ing that no more items be brought in at …

The Henry County Chamber’s annual Christ­mas orna­ment is now avail­able. This year’s orna­ment fea­tures the Trail Drive-In. The orna­ment is mist blue in color with black and gold let­ter­ing and design. Each orna­ment is $9. There is only a lim­ited amount of orna­ments avail­able for pur­chase and in recent years, …

A $250,000 pris­oner hous­ing agree­ment between Pauld­ing and Put­nam coun­ties has been signed with both coun­ties ben­e­fit­ting. Under the mem­o­ran­dum of under­stand­ing between the two coun­ties, Pauld­ing County will pay Put­nam County $250,000 annu­ally through Dec. 31, 2015, to house pris­on­ers as long as Pauld­ing County’s jail doesn’t reopen. Pauld­ing …

The sev­enth annual Olde Tyme Gath­er­ing returns to Mont­pe­lier tomor­row. The main event is the parade which will be held at 6 p.m. A crafts and gift show will be at the school audi­te­ria from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Author Bobbi Schlosser will be sign­ing her book, “Pil­grim,” at …

Oops.. false alarm. A mis­take in count­ing some early votes in Defi­ance County has over­turned the out­come of Defi­ance City Hall’s 0.3-percent income tax request. On Elec­tion Day the count was 1,430 votes for the tax and 1,445 against. How­ever, the final cer­ti­fied tally made Wednes­day by the county’s board …

Some elec­tric­ity has been restored and most roads have been reopened fol­low­ing that tor­nado that dev­as­tated much of the vil­lage of Cloverdale and sur­round­ing areas. Put­nam County offi­cials say elec­tric­ity has been restored to the vil­lage of Cloverdale, although many res­i­dences are still with­out elec­tric­ity due to the extent of …

A Napoleon busi­ness­man has now filed a sec­ond law­suit in Defi­ance County Court against Henry County com­mis­sion­ers and oth­ers. Dou­glas Pelmear and his com­pany, HP2G, LLC, in Napoleon, is seek­ing judg­ment against Henry County’s three com­mis­sion­ers and oth­ers. The suit is sim­i­lar to one filed ear­lier this month in com­mon …

On again, off again, now it’s on again. The pos­si­ble ren­o­va­tion of Defi­ance County’s cour­t­house that is. A seven-member com­mit­tee look­ing into the courthouse’s future decided to revisit the project dur­ing a meet­ing Wednes­day after­noon in the county com­mis­sion­ers’ office. The meet­ing this week comes more than a month after …

Bryan Police report the arrest of a man on Tues­day. It hap­pened just after 5:30 Tues­day after­noon. Police say 30 year old Jared Johansen was arrested for Dis­or­derly Con­duct After Warn­ing, Crim­i­nal Tres­pass and Resist­ing Arrest. He was taken to CCNO. Police didn’t indi­cate where Mr. Johansen was from.

The state high­way patrol says three peo­ple were injured Wednes­day after­noon in a two-car col­li­sion at County Road K and County Road 16. Police say one of the injured was flown to Toledo via Life Flight. They say another was trans­ported by Williams County EMS to Com­mu­nity Hos­pi­tals and Well­ness …