News

This year’s harsh win­ter hasn’t caused the Defi­ance reser­voir oper­a­tion any major prob­lems. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, water plant super­in­ten­dent Adam McDow­ell reports that this win­ter has been less of a chal­lenge than the 2012–13 sea­son. The reser­voir, accord­ing to McDow­ell, is much fuller than it was at this …

A Napoleon man has been arrested on a felony charge of Fail­ing to Reg­is­ter a change of address as a Sex Offender. 34 year old Shan­non Hand is sched­uled in court today on that charge. Hand was orig­i­nally con­victed in Defi­ance County on a charge of Attempted Unlaw­ful Sex­ual Con­duct …

In Ful­ton County Com­mon Pleas Court, 37 year old Joshua Cas­sady of Wauseon pled guilty on Fri­day to Tres­pass­ing in a home when a per­son is likely to be present. Police say Cas­sady stole a tv from an Elm Street home in Wauseon in con­nec­tion with the same inci­dent. Cas­sady …

Thirty peo­ple were exposed to poi­so­nous fumes Thurs­day morn­ing after a roof at the Per­for­mance Food Group dis­tri­b­u­tion cen­ter on U.S. 6 in Kendal­lville, Indi­ana col­lapsed. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, the weight of heavy-wet snow caved in the roof, which caused a tank of anhy­drous ammo­nia to rup­ture. It …

The rash of house fires in our area con­tin­ued Thurs­day morn­ing when flames were reported at a home County Road 18.75 between Stryker and Bryan. The call came in around 8:45 yes­ter­day morn­ing. When fire­fight­ers arrived, they found the flames con­tained to a first-floor bed­room. Ice on the roads and …

Another roof col­lapse Thurs­day in Napoleon caused an ammo­nia leak and resulted in the evac­u­a­tion of sur­round­ing busi­nesses. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, it hap­pened yes­ter­day just before 1pm at Clover­leaf Cold Stor­age on Inde­pen­dence Drive when the roof col­lapsed near the dock­ing bay. Police say the area was evac­u­ated …

An explo­sion that could be heard and felt by some peo­ple as much as four miles away, lev­eled a Steuben County home Thurs­day. No one was in the home at the time, but a dog that was inside was res­cued by a neigh­bor. Police say it hap­pened at the home …

Heavy rains and melt­ing snow due to the lit­tle taste of spring we have expe­ri­enced are now caus­ing major prob­lems through­out the area in the form of flood­ing streets and roads and clogged drains. The heavy rains and melt­ing is also caus­ing con­cerns about river flood­ing. Streets in many res­i­den­tial …

We’ve had sub-zero tem­per­a­tures. We’ve had near record, or in some cases, record snow­fall. Now, the win­ter weather that just keeps com­ing is toss­ing another thing at us. The National Weather Ser­vice is now pre­dict­ing tem­per­a­tures to hit 50-degrees or bet­ter today. That’s good news if you want to warm …

Here come the com­put­ers! The Millcreek-West Unity Board of Edu­ca­tion on Tues­day approved an agree­ment to pro­vide some com­put­ers for stu­dents. The dis­trict agreed to get 300 Chrome­books, enough for every stu­dent in grades 7–12. The total amount of the lease is $94,291, with the first year being paid through …