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If you can’t buy it this week­end along US-127, then you prob­a­bly don’t need it. What’s billed as “The World’s Longest Yard Sale” is being held this week­end along US-127 stretch­ing from Addi­son, Michi­gan all the way south to Gads­den, Alabama, and it passes through our area. West Unity, Pulaski, …

Hicksville Com­mu­nity Vaca­tion Bible School will take place Mon­day through Wednes­day, Aug. 5– 7, at St. John Lutheran Church, 812 E. High St., Hicksville. A free meal will be served at 6 p.m. and dis­missal will be at 8 p.m. each evening. Chil­dren ages 3 through sixth grade are invited. …

The vil­lage of Pio­neer will con­duct its hydrant flush­ing and pres­sure test­ing begin­ning Mon­day. Water hydrants will be flushed on the west side of State Street on Mon­day, those on the east side of State Street north of Lynn Street on Tues­day, and those on the south side of town, …

Ariel Cas­tro learned his fate in a Cleve­land court room yes­ter­day, but it was no sur­prise to most onlook­ers. The 53 year old for­mer school bus dri­ver was sen­tenced Thurs­day to life in prison plus 1,000 years. Michelle Knight, one of the three young women Cas­tro held cap­tive in his …

A motor­cy­cle poker run, hog roast and per­for­mances by six bands and musi­cians will be held on Sat­ur­day at the UAW hall in Defi­ance. Pro­ceeds from the event will ben­e­fit local musi­cian and record­ing artist, Tim Vargo of Defi­ance, and his fam­ily with med­ical bills while they are wait­ing for …

Dan Hughes may or may not have bro­ken the law dur­ing his 2012 cam­paign for Williams County Sher­iff, but it all is now irrelavent. Hughes was charged with a cam­paign vio­la­tion in Bryan Munic­i­pal Court a lit­tle more than a month before the Novem­ber 2012 gen­eral elec­tion. The case against …

The Ohio High­way Patrol reports that on Wednes­day after­noon, a trooper clocked a car at 69 miles per hour on US-127. When the trooper tried to stop the car, it turned into a dri­ve­way at a farm on Ohio 15 and a woman bolted from the passenger’s door. The trooper …

Edon Days kicks off tomor­row. It’s the annual sum­mer fes­ti­val in Edon and it will be held tomor­row, Sat­ur­day, and Sun­day. A cruise-in car show will be held tomor­row from 5 to 8 p.m. at Baker Park. At 6:30 p.m., the Lit­tle River Rail­road pas­sen­ger train leaves Edon Co-op for …

A tree cut­ting acci­dent Wednes­day after­noon leaves one man dead. 77 year old Robert Lam­bert of Defi­ance County was killed just after 4 p.m. yes­ter­day while cut­ting a tree near his home. Lam­bert was found by his fam­ily and was declared dead at the scene by the Defi­ance County Coro­ner. …

Fire­fight­ers were called out Wednes­day morn­ing to a fire at a vacant home on Mil­wau­kee Avenue in Defi­ance. Defi­ance Fire Depart­ment arrived on the scene at about 3:30 a.m. yes­ter­day where they received mutual aid by High­land Town­ship and Noble Town­ship fire depart­ments. The house, which was destroyed, will be …