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A ben­e­fit for the Garza fam­ily of Defi­ance is planned for this Sat­ur­day at the UAW hall. The Garza fam­ily lost four mem­bers recently and funds will be used for their funeral and other expenses.Things will kick off at 11 a.m. with reg­is­tra­tion for a Texas Hold-em poker tour­na­ment, that …

A judge on Wednes­day, dis­missed a case against a Swan­ton man charged with fail­ing to reg­is­ter a dog deemed vicious under the village’s code because it was labeled a “pit bull”-type dog. The case cen­tered around a dog named Bai­ley, who was owned by Tim Bork and his fam­ily. Swan­ton …

A Bryan man who was already accused of scam­ming com­pa­nies out of more than $250,000, was indicted Tues­day on an addi­tional charge of grand theft, which is a felony. The Williams County Pros­e­cu­tor, in a press release Tues­day, said that 37 year old Gene Fer­rell is accused of bro­ker­ing sales …

This com­ing week­end is Easter week­end, and kids will be happy to know that there are sev­eral Easter Egg Hunts planned in our area. There will be a Com­mu­nity Easter Egg Hunt at Pio­neer United Methodist Church on Sat­ur­day at 3 p.m. Rain or shine, all kids wel­come! And in …

The search for a new Fire Chief in Defi­ance is down to three can­di­dates, and two of them are famil­iar names. The Cres­cent News reports that civil ser­vice test­ing in Defi­ance has turned up three final­ists for the job… the city’s assis­tant chief and act­ing chief, Tim Bowl­ing; for­mer Defi­ance …

It now appears that there will be a delay in con­struc­tion of a new water treat­ment plant for Henry County. The Board of Pub­lic Affairs learned Mon­day night, there will be dia­log with the Army Corp of Engi­neers, and the Ohio EPA, as both agen­cies are inves­ti­gat­ing whether a wet­lands …

The Henry County Sheriff’s depart­ment has released infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing a descrip­tion of the vehi­cle and sus­pects involved in a road­side rob­bery that took place just west of Napoleon Mon­day after­noon. They say a black Dodge Car­a­van was pulled off the south side of the east­bound lane of U.S. 6, with …

Just one day after the Steuben County Sheriff’s Depart­ment asked the pub­lic to help them track down a reg­is­tered sex offender, an arrest has been made in the case. 26 year old Corey Wits­man was con­victed in July of sex­ual mis­con­duct with a minor but was not reg­is­tered as a …

The storm siren in West Unity is out of com­mis­sion, and West Unity Vil­lage Admin­is­tra­tor Ric Beals, accord­ing to the Bryan Times, told the Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers on Mon­day that it’s beyond repair. Accord­ing to Beals, replac­ing it with a new one would cost the vil­lage $21,000, and that money …

The Pauld­ing County Emer­gency Man­age­ment Direc­tor has been fired. Pauld­ing County com­mis­sion­ers voted unan­i­mously Mon­day to get rid of Randy Shaf­fer effec­tive imme­di­ately. The Crescent-News reports that Shafer was at the meet­ing yes­ter­day, but he left imme­di­ately after the announce­ment that he was being canned. Com­mis­sion­ers said an interim direc­tor …