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The Henry County Sheriff’s Office now has a K-9 unit. Andy, a 1-year old Ger­man shep­herd, recently com­pleted his six weeks of train­ing and joined the office on a full-time basis. The Sher­iff says the office was able to acquire Andy and his train­ing thtrough an anony­mous dona­tion. IAMS will …

On Tues­day, Napoleon Area School Dis­trict vot­ers will have the chance to decide on a 0.5 per­cent earned income tax levy which, if enacted, would gen­er­ate just over $1.15 mil­lion in new funds annu­ally for oper­a­tions begin­ning in 2014. Excluded from the tax would be inter­est, div­i­dends, cap­i­tal gains, unem­ploy­ment, …

A ben­e­fit will be held for the Brown fam­ily this Fri­day, May 10 from 4:30–8 p.m. in the Parish Life Cen­ter at St. Caspar’s Catholic Church in Wauseon. Sara Brown, a Wauseon School teacher and her hus­band, Chris Brown’s son Abram was born last Novem­ber. When the infant was only …

A Fri­day evening two-vehicle crash in Pauld­ing County left three peo­ple with injuries. Accord­ing to the High­way Patrol, the crash occurred at approx­i­mately 8:16 p.m., at the inter­sec­tion of Pauld­ing County Road 140 and Town­ship Road 191 in Brown Town­ship when a south­bound vehi­cle dri­ven by 30 year old Kacy …

A Bryan man is in jail fol­low­ing his arrest over the week­end. Bryan police say 53 year old Ray Ridg­way of Hamil­ton Street was arrested Sat­ur­day evening around 6:30pm and charged with dis­or­derly con­duct after police had already warned him. Ridg­way was locked up in CCNO. Bryan Police also say …

The Ful­ton Soil and Water Con­ser­va­tion Dis­trict is tak­ing orders for the annual fish fin­ger­ling dis­tri­b­u­tion pro­gram for stock­ing ponds. Dead­line to order is May 10 with the pick-up on May 14 at the Ful­ton County Fair­grounds in Wauseon. Species offered for sale are bluegill, chan­nel cat­fish, large­mouth bass, redear …

Bryan Police on Thurs­day arrested 28 year old Cecil C. Web­ster of She­boy­gan, Wis­con­sin on a Felony war­rant out of She­boy­gan Cir­cuit County Court for fail­ing to appear. The orig­i­nal charges were Dis­or­derly Con­duct, Intim­i­da­tion of a wit­ness and Domes­tic Abuse. Web­ster was taken to CCNO where he will await …

Emer­gency Med­ical Direc­tor Jim Hicks pre­sented Williams County Com­mis­sion­ers with an $81,678 pro­posal Thurs­day morn­ing for eight new Phillips Elec­tron­ics MRx Car­diac mon­i­tors. Hicks says the cur­rent mon­i­tors are ten years old, they’ve been upgraded once, and main­te­nance costs have become pro­hib­i­tive. Hicks told the Com­mis­sion­ers that the new MRx …

Fifty-five extrac­tions, 25 fill­ings and 30 teeth clean­ings were all given to patients in need at no charge at the sec­ond annual Den­tistry from the Heart event which was recently held last week at the Den­tal Excel­lence of Napoleon. Dr. Michael Car­pen­ter headed up the event. Den­tistry from the Heart …

A change in the way Pauld­ing County han­dles ani­mal issues… The Pauld­ing County com­mis­sion­ers on Wednes­day made the deci­sion to trans­fer the author­ity and juris­dic­tion of the Pauld­ing County Dog War­den and ken­nel oper­a­tions to the sheriff’s office effec­tive July 1. The com­mis­sion­ers say the change will make the depart­ment …