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Defi­ance City Coun­cil met on Tues­day night, and among the items on the table, were poten­tial raises for non-union city employ­ees. The Cres­cent News reports that an emer­gency ordi­nance approved by coun­cil, will give the city’s non-union employ­ees, which does not include elected offi­cials, a 1.5 per­cent raise in pay …

Quadco Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter board mem­bers will be con­sid­er­ing the revi­sion of their mis­sion state­ment for the cen­ter as well as other short term and long term issues as they head into plan­ning ses­sions in the months ahead. At the meet­ing of the board on Tues­day, the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor said he …

The Ohio State High­way Patrol joined forces with mem­bers of the 6-State Trooper Project for a high-visibility enforce­ment effort focused on crash caus­ing vio­la­tions from Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 21st, at 12:01 a.m. through Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 23rd, at 11:59 p.m. Troop­ers tar­geted safety belt, aggres­sive dri­ving and OVI– related vio­la­tions along the …

It’s now offi­cial. The National Weather Ser­vice has released sta­tis­tics show­ing that this win­ter is now offi­cially the snowiest win­ter on record. We’ve now had more snow than any pre­vi­ous win­ter, even beat­ing out the win­ter of 1977–78 which includes the Bliz­zard of ’78. That win­ter, Williams County got 63.6 …

With the some­what warmer tem­per­a­tures over the past week­end, ice dams on area rivers were a big con­cern to many river com­mu­ni­ties in the area. The good news today is that ice is break­ing up and going out on many rivers as of Mon­day after­noon. Some ice remained in some …

A com­pany that deals with aban­doned fac­tory sites has expressed inter­est in acquir­ing the for­mer SK Hand Tools prop­erty at Defi­ance. Accord­ing to the Cres­cent News, now Defi­ance County Com­mis­sion­ers need to fig­ure out how the more than $100,000 in unpaid prop­erty taxes due on that prop­erty will be han­dled, …

Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency offi­cials are watch­ing ice jams on area rivers that they say could endan­ger peo­ple liv­ing along the river­banks. Offi­cials report a mile-long ice jam just west of Grand Rapids in Henry County. They say it has already caused minor flood­ing along the river banks in parts of …

Bryan Police say on Sun­day, they arrested 18 year old Emily Kerr of Bryan on charges of Child Endan­ger­ment. Accord­ing to police, they then released her. On Sun­day, 22 year old Emmalee Brown of Bryan was arrested for Obstruct­ing Offi­cial Busi­ness. She too was just released. On Mon­day, Bryan Police …

The Bryan “PURPLE” team defeated North Cen­tral 17–10 in the Cham­pi­onship round of the 18th Annual Williams County Junior High Quiz Bowl. The two teams met ear­lier in the com­ple­tion, in Round 6. At that time, Bryan defeated North Cen­tral by a score of 12–5, send­ing Eagles into the Losers’ …

It’s been a rough win­ter on some area char­i­ties. In par­tic­u­lar, the Amer­i­can Red Cross has had to can­cel a num­ber of blood dri­ves in the area due to the bad weather. Now, here’s your chance to help them make up some ground. The Amer­i­can Red Cross of Henry County …