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Seems peo­ple in our area were more giv­ing last year. Reports say that char­i­ta­ble giv­ing is on the rebound nation­ally and right here locally. Accord­ing to an annual report by the Giv­ing USA Foun­da­tion and Indi­ana University’s Lilly Fam­ily School of Phil­an­thropy, char­i­ta­ble dona­tions nation­ally were up 3.5 per­cent in …

CCNO’s pop­u­la­tion was slightly down. That news high­lighted Wednesday’s meet­ing of the Cor­rec­tions Com­mis­sion of North­west Ohio. CCNO Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Jim Den­nis said Wednesday’s inmate pop­u­la­tion stood at 570 or 89 per­cent. The pop­u­la­tion aver­aged 583 or 91 per­cent in April and stood at 593 or 93 per­cent in May. …

The Postal Reform Act of 2013 is on the way, and once it becomes law, the days of postal car­ri­ers walk­ing door-to-door will be over. The Con­gres­sional act man­dates Post Offices use “the most cost effec­tive pri­mary mode of mail deliv­ery pos­si­ble,” specif­i­cally phas­ing out “to the door” deliv­ery in …

Jesus Christ Super­star” will be per­formed at Father John’s this week­end. The Bryan Times reports it will be a ben­e­fit per­for­mance, with free-will offer­ings col­lected at the door and all pro­ceeds split evenly among the county’s four nurs­ing home activ­ity funds. Father John’s used to be a Bap­tist church. John …

A let­ter sent by Defi­ance City Hall to a num­ber of prop­erty own­ers forc­ing pos­si­ble annex­a­tion was the topic of dis­cus­sion at a meet­ing Tues­day night. Coun­cil­man David Plant expressed his con­cern about the let­ter dur­ing council’s reg­u­lar meet­ing. The let­ter Plant ref­er­enced to was dated June 6 and signed …

Two blood dri­ves are being held in Put­nam County this week. One is going on today from noon-6 p.m. at the Glan­dorf Rod and Gun Club on County Road 11 in Ottawa. The sec­ond blood drive will be on Sat­ur­day from 9 a.m.- 2 p.m. at Ottawa Chevro­let on N. …

Unem­ploy­ment in Williams County is on the rise. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, Williams County unem­ploy­ment increased to 6.7 per­cent in May from 6.6 per­cent in April. Defi­ance County’s rate remained at 6.9 per­cent. Ful­ton County’s rate dropped from 7.9 per­cent in April to 7.4 per­cent in May. Henry County’s …

Vil­lage lead­ers in Hol­gate are look­ing into the pos­si­bil­ity of expand­ing and improv­ing the park at Holgate’s for­mer school site. Ear­lier in the month, plans to replace two dugouts at the park were put on hold so vil­lage offi­cials could take a look at the pos­si­bil­ity of a larger-scale ren­o­va­tion …

Quadco is work­ing with an increas­ing num­ber of indi­vid­u­als with dis­abil­i­ties who want to work in the com­mu­nity and is help­ing more of them find jobs. At a meet­ing held Tues­day, Quadco’s Exec­u­tive Direc­tor told board mem­bers that there is a lot of empha­sis on com­mu­nity employ­ment. He pointed to …

Sev­eral Cub Scout packs and troops will be in area gro­cery stores this com­ing week­end ask­ing for dona­tions of food to local food pantries. Chief Super­mar­kets in Defi­ance and Wauseon will have grab bags avail­able for $5 which will con­tain a tube of tooth­paste, a bot­tle of sham­poo, a can …