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Pio­neer has now voted to ban the man­u­fac­ture, sale, dis­tri­b­u­tion and pos­ses­sion of syn­thetic drugs and syn­thetic drug looka­likes. On Mon­day the vil­lage coun­cil reports the unan­i­mous vote to pass a new ordi­nance designed to make sub­stances known as syn­thetic mar­i­juana, K2, spice, bath salts, pot­pourri and oth­ers ille­gal, after …

Renewal of an agri­cul­tural lease was a hot but­ton topic Mon­day night in Stryker. The Bryan Times reports that three years ago bids were taken for a 34-acre prop­erty on the south side of the vil­lage. The high bid­der from that period was asked Mon­day to renew the lease for …

The Henry County Chap­ter of the Amer­i­can Red Cross is hold­ing a blood drive all day today from 10 a.m.-3 p.m,. at the Ober­haus Shel­ter at Ober­haus Park in Napoleon. Walk-ins are wel­come. To sched­ule an appoint­ment, you can call any­time… 800-RED-CROSS.

The chicken pie sup­per tra­di­tion con­tin­ues at First Chris­t­ian Church in Wauseon. This year, orga­niz­ers say a gen­er­ous home­made meal will be served to nearly 1,000 peo­ple. It takes place Wednes­day in church fel­low­ship hall from 5–7 p.m. or until sold out. The menu includes home­made chicken pie and gravy, …

The inves­ti­ga­tion is con­tin­u­ing, but police now say they believe it was a com­bi­na­tion of alco­hol and speed that lead to a rollover crash Sun­day night that crit­i­cally injured a man from Angola. 30 year old Joseph Glenn ran off State Road 827 south of Fre­mont when he missed a …

A jury in Defi­ance County on Fri­day found a woman guilty of aggra­vated mur­der and five other charges. The ver­dict was handed down against 46 year old Judith Hawkey on charges of aggra­vated mur­der; four counts of endan­ger­ing chil­dren; and insur­ance fraud. Hawkey’s $3 mil­lion bond was imme­di­ately revoked, and …

Police say a teacher who was try­ing to help a stray dog in the park­ing lot of ele­men­tary school in Toledo, found a man who had been shot. The teacher says the man just came right up to her and told her that he’d been shot. Toledo police say Matthew …

Final num­bers are in and they look pretty impres­sive. The seven Relay for Life events held in six north­west Ohio coun­ties in June, Defi­ance, Henry, Pauld­ing, Put­nam, Williams and Ful­ton, with the Vil­lage of Hicksville in Defi­ance County, hold­ing its own relay, raised a total of $942,390 for 2013. The …

A bar­ren grave site of a Civil War vet­eran is no longer unmarked after a 142-year wait, due to the efforts of two descen­dants. John Cranston, a Civil War Union sol­dier from Co. A 17th Reg­i­ment Kansas Vol­un­teer Infantry, died May 19, 1871, after the war. He is buried in …

One per­son was injured in a single-vehicle crash Thurs­day after­noon on The Bend Road in Defi­ance County. The crash hap­pened just before 1pm when a south­bound vehi­cle dri­ven by 77 year old Pauline Boroff of Pauld­ing, left the road and struck a util­ity pole, sheer­ing it off at the base. …