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At Mon­day evening’s Napoleon City Coun­cil meet­ing, an ordi­nance that would increase bulk water rates over a three-year period was dis­cussed. The Cres­cent News reports that, under the cur­rent rate, cus­tomers are charged $7.71 per 1,000 gal­lons of water. If the pro­posed ordi­nance is approved, that rate would increase to …

In Henry County, a war­rant has been issued for a Napoleon man’s arrest. 25 year old Angel Cranston of Napoleon plead guilty to a felony charge of theft, but he never showed-up for his sen­tenc­ing. If you have any infor­ma­tion about his where­abouts, con­tact police or the Henry County Sheriff’s …

A traf­fic stop by the Henry County sheriff’s office early last Sat­ur­day morn­ing near Lib­erty Cen­ter resulted in a drug arrest. 45 year old James Wil­son of Wauseon was cited for Drug Pos­ses­sion and pos­ses­sion of Drug Para­phana­lia, along with Dri­ving under Sus­pen­sion, DUI, and a Marked Lane violation.

Defi­ance County com­mis­sion­ers on Tues­day, con­tin­ued to search for a long-term solu­tion for the for­mer SK Hand Tool prop­erty on Hick­ory Street in Rich­land Town­ship. The for­mer tool maker closed up shop sev­eral years ago after declar­ing bank­ruptcy. Ever since then, accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, the prop­erty has fallen …

Napoleon Police report they made an arrest Sat­ur­day night in Napoleon involv­ing a stolen knife. 21 year old Aaron Fowler of Napoleon was charged with Theft and Aggra­vated Men­ac­ing accord­ing to the police report.

An arrest for tres­pass­ing in Henry County’s Wash­ing­ton Town­ship.… 18 year old Lena Har­ris of Lib­erty Cen­ter was also charged with Dis­or­derly Con­duct and Resist­ing Arrest. Har­ris was locked up behind bars in the regional jail.

They’ve got to be made up some­how… School days in Bryan Schools will get a bit longer begin­ning March 31st. On the good side, kids will be happy to hear that because of the longer days, the school year will also end a bit ear­lier. The Bryan Times reports that …

A man was indicted Mon­day after being nabbed with obscene mate­r­ial involv­ing a minor child on his cell phone. 29 year old Daniel J. Pem­ber of Fayette, now is charged with two counts of pan­der­ing obscen­ity involv­ing a minor, and one count of sex­ual bat­tery, all felonies. In an indict­ment …

Dis­cus­sion at Mon­day night’s Edon Vil­lage Coun­cil meet­ing cen­tered around just how deeply coun­cil and the plan­ning com­mis­sion should be involved in a prop­erty dis­pute between neigh­bors. The dis­pute cen­ters around an addi­tion that was added to a home which appears to be infring­ing on the set­back of a neigh­bor­ing …

Home­less­ness increased dra­mat­i­cally from 2013 to 2014 in north­west Ohio. At the end of Jan­u­ary, the North­west Ohio Com­mu­nity Action Com­mis­sion and the North­west Ohio Hous­ing Coali­tion con­ducted the point-in-time count of home­less indi­vid­u­als and those at risk for home­less­ness. The count was held on Jan­u­ary 28th, which just hap­pened …