News

Sev­eral area fire depart­ments yes­ter­day morn­ing bat­tled a house fire on Pauld­ing County Road 209. The fire was reported around 9 Mon­day morning.

A Napoleon man was bound over to the Henry County Grand Jury Mon­day on a felony charge of Domes­tic Vio­lence. 32 year old Justin Humphrey-Gainor waived his pre­lim­i­nary hear­ing in Munic­i­pal Court. He is being held on a cash bond of $30,000. –0– 40 year old Michael Prys­tash of Napoleon …

A live deploy­ment demon­stra­tion of a mobile, 32-bed hos­pi­tal to be used in cri­sis sit­u­a­tions took place on Wednes­day at ProMed­ica Defi­ance Regional Hos­pi­tal. The mobile hos­pi­tal, owned by Hos­pi­tal Coun­cil of North­west Ohio, is deployed in one of two drills con­ducted every year. The hos­pi­tal is based on the …

The Pub­lic Util­i­ties Com­mis­sion of Ohio has approved improve­ments at a rail­road cross­ing on Henry County E near Desh­ler that was the site of a fatal car-train crash. 48 year old Rebecca McCoy-Basore of Hamil­ton, Ohio, was killed last Feb­ru­ary when she failed to stop for a north­bound CSX train. …

Hill­top Schools is host­ing the Williams County spelling bee on Tues­day. Com­pe­ti­tion gets under­way Tues­day evening at 6:30 with 18 stu­dents from nine county schools par­tic­i­pat­ing. The win­ner of the county bee will advance to the regional spelling bee to be held in Fort Wayne’s IPFW Rhine­hart Music Cen­ter Recital …

The win­ter blast is intense, and it shows no signs of let­ting up any­time soon. From the National Weather Ser­vice of north­ern Indi­ana early this morn­ing, just after 3:30, we received this update.. – A Win­ter Weather Advi­sory in effect from 10 a.m. today until 4 p.m. Saturday. – A …

B Rock is hav­ing its 35th annual Bliz­zard auc­tion this Sat­ur­day start­ing at 8am. We hold the auc­tion every year at this time, and each year an orga­ni­za­tion in NW Ohio is a recip­i­ent of the pro­ceeds of the auc­tion. This year, it’s the United Way of Williams County who …

The Defi­ance County chap­ter of the Amer­i­can Red Cross has warm­ing cen­ters on standby, as wind chills are expected to be between 10–25 degrees below zero from tonight on into Fri­day. If you or some­one you know needs a warm­ing cen­ter, call the Red Cross at 419–782-0136 or Defi­ance County …

It looks like a lot of local kids will have a short­ened sum­mer vaca­tion this year due to all the win­ter weather we’ve had so far. Accord­ing to the Bryan Times, Stryker Local Schools have eaten up five calamity days and two of their three Bliz­zard Bag days. North Cen­tral …

The Ful­ton County Auditor’s Office has sent out a reminder that Jan. 31st is the last day to renew dog tags in that county. License appli­ca­tions sub­mit­ted after Jan. 31 will be sub­ject to a late penalty. Renewals can be processed at the auditor’s office, 152 S. Ful­ton Street, suite …