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Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers met for their reg­u­lar meet­ing on Mon­day and approved appro­pri­a­tions and trans­fers in the county bud­get includ­ing: • $10,000 from cap­i­tal assets-machinery and equip­ment to vehi­cle main­te­nance sup­plies. • $1,640 from unap­pro­pri­ated to cap­i­tal assets-furniture and fix­tures. • $25.61 from com­pen­sa­tion and dam­ages to work­ers’ com­pen­sa­tion. • …

The Win­ter Cri­sis Pro­gram ends on April 15. The pro­gram is designed to pro­vide assis­tance to cus­tomers that are threat­ened with dis­con­nec­tion, have already been dis­con­nected, need to estab­lish new ser­vice or are in need of propane, fuel oil or any other bulk fuel. Income guide­line for the pro­gram is …

A man from Wauseon could spend up to three years in prison fol­low­ing his con­vic­tion in Ful­ton County Court. 54 year old Marc McCabe was found guilty by a Ful­ton County Jury of Ille­gal Cul­ti­va­tion of Mar­i­juana fol­low­ing about 90 min­utes of delib­er­a­tion. McCabe will be back in court for …

An Arch­bold man was sen­tenced for his role in the pro­duc­tion of metham­phet­a­mines. 30 year old Justin Roth pled guilty to Attempted Ille­gal Man­u­fac­ture of Drugs. Roth was placed on com­mu­nity con­trol for three years; and ordered to com­plete the SEARCH pro­gram. His driver’s license was sus­pended for six months, …

Bryan Police report the arrest of 36 year old Allan Williams on charges of pos­ses­sion of mar­i­juana and pos­ses­sion of drug para­pher­na­lia. He was released. 34 year old Leslie Swindell was arrested and charged with pos­ses­sion of mar­i­juana. He was also released. And 38 year old Juan Ortiz was arrested …

North­west State Com­mu­nity Col­lege nurs­ing stu­dents are host­ing a free Health Fair on Thurs­day from 9:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. The event will fea­ture free blood pres­sure screen­ings and derma scan­ner screen­ings to help iden­tify skin can­cer risks. Rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the Repro­duc­tive Health Clinic will be in atten­dance as well. The Health …

Accord­ing to a release from the Defi­ance County Sheriff’s Office, a Defi­ance County Envi­ron­men­tal Ser­vices employee was killed in an acci­dent dur­ing a trash drop-off Sat­ur­day morn­ing. 87-year-old Max Hook of Hicksville was attempt­ing to back a vehi­cle up to a dump­ster at the refuse pickup cen­ter on Gin­grich Road, …

A man who has spent decades as a law enforce­ment offi­cer in Defi­ance County is call­ing it quits. The Cres­cent News reports that Gene Laney, who turns 70 years old today, says he’s retire­ing. Laney was once Hicksville’s police chief. In recent years, he has worked as a Defi­ance County …

We recently told you about the planned acqui­si­tion of Sen­so­ry­Ef­fects in Defi­ance by New York based Balchem Corp. Now, the Cres­cent News is report­ing that there will be lit­tle if any changes for those work­ing there, and that’s good news. Sen­so­ry­Ef­fects says the com­pany is “oper­at­ing as is, with no …

Williams County Sher­iff Steven Towns has put out the warn­ing about another scam that is mak­ing the rounds in our area. The sher­iff says the new scam involves a man call­ing from 917–460-9954 stat­ing he’s from Pub­lish­ers Clear­ing­house. The caller informs peo­ple that they have won the sweep­stakes’ cash grand …