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Strong thun­der­storms with dam­ag­ing winds ripped through north­west Ohio late Sun­day after­noon. The pow­er­ful storms caused numer­ous power out­ages and resulted in dam­age to a num­ber of build­ings. The National Weather Ser­vice says winds of 60 to 70 miles per hour roared through the area, with some gusts hit­ting as …

The Defi­ance County Fair Foun­da­tion received a $100,000 dona­tion from the Justin Cores­sel Foun­da­tion for phase 2 of the grand­stand project. It marked the sec­ond $100,000 dona­tion from the Cores­sel foun­da­tion. The fair foun­da­tion has been rais­ing funds for the grand­stand project for sev­eral years. The project is being com­pleted …

A man accused of evad­ing child molest­ing charges for the past seven years was arrested Sat­ur­day in a motel room in Steuben County. Indi­ana State Police say 30 year old Terry Wayne Waugh Jr was charged there with four counts of child molest­ing. Waugh has been wanted for seven years, …

The Bryan Water Depart­ment has started win­ter­iz­ing the fire hydrants. Win­ter­iz­ing the hydrants ensures the hydrants will func­tion in freez­ing tem­per­a­tures if they are called on. Water depart­ment employ­ees check each hydrant to make sure there is no stand­ing water in the bar­rel. If there is, they pump it out. …

The Defi­ance County Fair­grounds will be dec­o­rated this Decem­ber in cel­e­bra­tion of the Christ­mas sea­son. This year will mark the first year of the cel­e­bra­tion at the fair­grounds. On Dec. 6–8 and 12–14 from 6–10 p.m., the pub­lic is wel­come to come on out and visit the first Christ­mas Light …

The vil­lage of Hol­gate is accept­ing bids on the for­mer school prop­erty along Fra­zier Street. There are sev­eral parcels avail­able for pur­chase, and bids are due at the munic­i­pal build­ing by Decem­ber 2nd. Hol­gate Coun­cil will open and review all bids that are received at their next meet­ing, on Decem­ber …

Beth Kelly, a kinder­garten teacher at Pauld­ing Ele­men­tary School, has been named the 2013 Ohio His­tory Teacher of the Year. A vet­eran teacher with nearly 20 years of expe­ri­ence at the pre-K and ele­men­tary level, Kelly grew up in Pauld­ing County and grad­u­ated from Pauld­ing High School. She holds a …

A col­lec­tion is being held for an Oak­wood fam­ily who lost every­thing in a house fire ear­lier this month. Los­ing their rental home to a fire, David and Laura Peters, their three chil­dren and pets are cur­rently liv­ing with a fam­ily mem­ber in Oak­wood. Cooper Com­mu­nity Library is serv­ing as …

The Ful­ton County dog warden’s web­site, www.fultoncountyoh.com/dogwarden, debuted a new sec­tion this week fea­tur­ing pho­tos of dogs avail­able for adop­tion. The page now allows the depart­ment to post pho­tos of lost and avail­able dogs, mak­ing the return of lost ani­mals to their right­ful home — or plac­ing them in new …

The Henry County Com­mis­sion­ers had hoped that sev­eral ongo­ing con­struc­tion projects at the his­toric cour­t­house in Napoleon would qual­ify for grant fund­ing. They got some good news Wednes­day. The com­mis­sion­ers learned their pro­posed project to replace the ele­va­tor in the cour­t­house would qual­ify for using revolv­ing loan funds and micro-enterprise …