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A lot of meet­ings are sched­uled for today. Mont­pe­lier Vil­lage Coun­cil will meet in reg­u­lar ses­sion at 7:30 p.m. today in the police depart­ment meet­ing room. The Williams Soil and Water Con­ser­va­tion Dis­trict will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Williams County Agri­cul­ture Ser­vices Meet­ing Room in Bryan. The …

All res­i­dents from Lake­land Nurs­ing and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter in Angola had to be evac­u­ated due to an attic fire. The elec­tri­cal fire that started at about 10:20 p.m. Fri­day night was in the orig­i­nal wing of the facil­ity, above the office area. It’s hoped that all res­i­dents will be back …

Excit­ing things are hap­pen­ing at Inde­pen­dence Dam State Park east of Defi­ance this sum­mer. Ren­o­va­tion of the marina park­ing lot and plan­ning of new activ­i­ties for vis­i­tors are in progress, and park offi­cials are get­ting camp­ing sites started up again, bring­ing bald eagles to the park from a reha­bil­i­ta­tion facil­ity …

A McClure man sus­tained seri­ous injuries early Sat­ur­day morn­ing when his motor­cy­cle col­lided with a deer near in Henry County. 57 year old Leonel Sifuentes of McClure was taken by air ambu­lance to the Uni­ver­sity of Toledo Med­ical Cen­ter for treat­ment. The Henry County Sheriff’s Office reports that Sifuentes was …

The West­ern Lake Erie region of the Amer­i­can Red Cross will be hold­ing a blood drive on Tues­day at Emanuel Lutheran Church in Napoleon. Call 800-RED-CROSS to sched­ule an appoint­ment for tomorrow’s blood drive.

Retired Mont­pe­lier Police Chief Jeff Lehman tes­ti­fied Wednes­day before the Ohio House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives’ Edu­ca­tion Com­mit­tee in favor of House Bill 8. If signed into law, the bill would give all school dis­tricts in Ohio the option of train­ing and arm­ing employ­ees, and would pro­tect dis­tricts from law­suits if any­one …

The Edger­ton Senior Cen­ter may not have to go with­out a home for long. It was announced Mon­day the cen­ter was going to shut down activ­i­ties in the vil­lage com­mu­nity build­ing on June 28. How­ever, the county would con­tinue to pro­vide home-delivered meals and ser­vices with­out a local office, although …

At the end of June, about $1 bil­lion in rebate checks will be mailed out from the Ohio Bureau of Work­ers Com­pen­sa­tion . The rebates were autho­rized by the BWC In May for pri­vate employ­ers and public-taxing dis­tricts that pay into the sys­tem. Approx­i­mately $2,416,440 in refund checks are com­ing …

Pet­tisville stu­dent Chrysta Beck has been rec­og­nized for her research on… chick­ens. Beck recently placed third in the ani­mal sci­ences divi­sion of the Intel Inter­na­tion­als Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing Fair, the world’s largest inter­na­tional pre-college sci­ence com­pe­ti­tion. Her project dealt with chick­ens. Beck won $1,000 for her efforts, money that will …

The Defi­ance County engineer’s office has closed Har­ris Road, between Mans­field Road and the Defiance-Putnam County Line Road for sev­eral days for road­side grad­ing. The clo­sure went into effect Thurs­day. The road will not be open to either emer­gency vehi­cles or the gen­eral public.